Today in workshop Natalie gave us some tips on how to use filters and tools in Photoshop to make pictures look better. She taught us how to get rid of unsightly blemishes and how to use a blur to make backgrounds look better. This is going to be helpful since I will have a lot of pictures of the people I am interviewing. After the lesson we got to play with Rob and Natalie's photos. A few people made some absolutely hilarious pictures!
After workshop I came home and worked on setting up some more appointments with the people that had written back to me. I also finished up some reading that was assigned for Prof B's class tonight.
Then I met Prof B in her office and we walked together to the Digital Union for our meeting with my instructors. We talked about generally the same things that we talked about in my individual meeting with them last Friday. We met with Rob, Natalie, and someone I had never met before, Becka. It was good to have Prof B there because she gave great input and thought of things that I would have never thought of. We started again with Audience Analysis which was the same as it has been since last Friday. We agreed to make it accessible to everyone because of our varied audience. We then talked about the site map which led into the storyboards of our templates. I had redone the template of the main page and incorporated the suggestions that my instructors and Prof B had made over the past week. We took the links bar of the left hand side of the page and added another circle of links instead. I won't tell you what it is called because it is very clever, you will just have to wait. Rob made a very good suggestion about the images around the circles. He said that we should incorporate the titles in and then have it rollover to the full image. It is hard to explain in words, but it makes a lot of sense and adds to our accesibilty. Then Natalie made a suggestion about the interview that I will be doing and how she thought it would be a good idea for me to do them in a studio in the Journalism Building. It would give them a more professional feel, but it all depends on the comfort level of th people that i will be interviewing. Those were the main points of the meeting other than our site looked good and that we would be starting soon on creating the templates in Dreamweaver.
After this meeting I came home to a very full email inbox. It is a good thing I am an email queen. So after corresponding to those and taking a quick break I was off to class. We talked a lot about disability autobiography today. We discussed the issues surround autobiography in general and the current issues that are targeted towards disability narratives. The reading that was due for today included an article by Tom Couser on how to teach disability autobiography (my personal favorite of the day) and 3 excerpts for disability autobiographies: Nancy Mairs, John Hockenberry, and Simi Linton. It was a very interesting discussion.
This evening I sent an email to Rob asking for more information on the studio that Natalie was talking about. I need to know the where and when before I contact anyone that I have already made appointments with and before scheduling any further ones. I also emailed Justin Troyer who did the presentations on video about getting a camera and mic from classroom services on Monday for my interview with Prof B. My goals for the weekend are to come up with at least 4 questions for each of the people that I will be interviewing over the next two weeks to show to Prof B on Monday. That way we will have something to start with.
Well this was a long post and I am exhausted! I hope I did not leave anything out!

Thanks for reading!
- Karla :)