Week 2, Day 7

This morning I woke up to go and take my AP Environmental Science exam at 8:00. After being tortured for three hours, I was so happy to be done with the exam!  I left Proctor and was at Becca's house by 11:45.  Becca and I worked for a solid six hours today.  

At Becca's house, we had a short lunch break and talked about what we would do today for our project.  We decided that we would drive over to my house to do our work, since I have a color printer that we have been using.  We got to my house around 12:45 and got right to work at 1:00.  

Today, Becca and I did a number of things.  First, we decided on what we would do for directions.  We already knew that we wanted to print out MapQuest directions for each restaurant in our book, but we hadn't made our minds up yet for what to do about maps. We eventually came to the conclusion that we are going to make one large area map of our restaurants with a map creator program.  I will be the one working on this in the next couple of days.  

While Becca printed and cut out MapQuest directions, I finished cutting out restaurant menus from the other day.  I also went through a few menus from restaurants that had been available for us to take and cut them up.  Next, we finished printing and cutting out the other ten menus online that I didn't get to yesterday.  

Becca and I discussed a lot about our page layout today and how we want our final book to look like.  Both Becca and I have great paper to use for decorative backgrounds of each page in our book left over from previous scrap booking, which we both love to do. We have been putting all of our restaurant information into the plastic sheets in our book, and it is looking great so far!  We also talked about how we are going to label our book with color tabs, and I think we have decided on food type.  

Another things that we had on our agenda for today was to email Kim Hurlbutt in the Development Office at Proctor.  We explained to her our Senior Project and the possibility of putting all of our restaurant information under Proctor's A to Z page. She emailed us right back and thought it was a great idea.  We scheduled a meeting with Kim for Thursday.  Becca and I understand that creating a website can be a hard and lengthy process, and our main goal of our project is to create a final binder/book and a condensed version of this book, so we are going to meet and see what this possibility could entail.  We really hope that we can add our reviews and pictures etc. to Proctor's web page though, if time allows!

At 5:00, Becca and I took a short break for dinner and were back to work for another hour between 7:00 and 8:00.  Becca worked on a few of her reviews, while I worked on a few of mine.

Tomorrow should be a good day of collaborative work just as today was!  We are planning to get a lot done on our reviews and then meet with Margaret later in the afternoon.