Technical Difficulties

I popped onto the blog this evening on a whim and after I got over my shock at how long it had been since my last post I noticed that about 10 photos were missing from my last few Interactive Exhibit Design posts. At first I thought I was dealing with an issue Blogger was experiencing over the spring and into the summer but it turned out instead that I was suffering from the way I had initially uploaded the photos. I write most of my blogs in Pages or Word and then copy and paste them into the compose window. In the case of the two blogs that were missing photos I had imported the photos directly into my Pages document instead of into blogger and as a result those photos disappeared. I'm not exactly sure when it happened but it must have been relatively soon after I published the blog.

So all 13 of you must be desperately wondering why I disappeared along with my photos this past summer. Oh, who am I kidding, most of you know exactly what I was doing because you were too. As part of our MA Public History students at UWO have to complete a 12 week internship. From May 17th, until August 10th I was completing mine with The Promised Land Project at Huron University College. With my classmate Shelagh Staunton I planned and executed the oral history component of the project. I'm hoping to follow with a blog about that experience in the near future as well as a few more that I've had up my sleeve but just not had time to finalize and publish.

Making Promises You Can't Keep!

I guess I should be glad I didn't actually promise to follow up my "What I did in School Today" blog as its pretty clear that chronicling on even a weekly basis is entirely beyond me. I'm hoping to post a blog regarding what I did with the last few weeks of class time sometime in the near future, but I'm not holding my breath. Thankfully, my audience is limited entirely to my classmates, mother, and Dr. Turkel so at least I'm not disappointing a large angry mob.
This does segue fairly well into one of my challenges this semester. As I'm sure all of my less than angry mob of 13 followers know, this semester I was enrolled in History 9832: Interactive Exhibit Design. The course is almost entirely project based with brief breaks to learn important skills. Part of those projects was chronicling our progress, challenges, failures, and successes. I have been less than reliable in my reports. I'm not entirely sure why that is. As I mentioned in Let's Start at the Very Beginning my first real post on this blog, I've never been good at chronicling. I don't keep a diary, I don't even really have any day to day routines that would be the same if you visited me at home on any three random days. As a result, in the next week or so I should be posting all of the half finished blog posts I've had sitting around in my Interactive Exhibit Design folders since the various associated adventures. I'll also be doing my last major push to finish something (anything!) for April 15th when we have our final class show and tell. Nothing like finally posting most of a semesters worth of work in a little over a week!