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Scratch, scratch...

14th October 2008, Del

The design priorities for me now are the myChina section where users can aggregate content from within the site and elsewhere. It's an interesting idea and I've been scratching my head with Robert a few times figuring out how best to achieve this.

I've scanned in a couple of scribbles which roughly shows the process a user might make to get to edit some content on their page.

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14th October 2008, Flora

Well today was filled with meetings after meetings after meetings!

I've been up to my eyeballs in research, commissioning writing from our teacher consultants and getting hold of contacts to do voxpops for the China Factfile section, but it's now time for a big design and development push to create the final sections of the site.

Del, Tanya and Ray - a developer who's just joined the China team straight off a plane back from Japan(!) - are all back from holiday and back onto the project, so we had a bit of catching up to do.

At 10.30 I met briefly with Ray and Del to go over the remaining sections of the site - the China Snapshots gallery, the China Factfile section, the myChina [working title] section where visitors to the site will be able to collect together their thoughts, ideas, media and research about China, and finally the debating section.

At 11.00 the whole web China team - Gerald, Del, Ray, Rob and I - met up with Ali (Ray, Rob and Del's team leader) to look at everybody's schedules and decide what we should start working on first. We planned this carefully so no-one would be stuck twiddling their thumbs whilst waiting for someone else to finish stuff.

At 14.00 I had a meeting with Rob, who's going to be working with Ray to build the myChina section from the jumping off point of some existing BBC resources.

Finally, at 15.30 I met Tanya to talk about finding and sorting images for the China Snapshot section.

As well as all the other meetings, today I went to a Learning Lunch held by one of my colleagues, Claire. The idea behind the Lunch today was for people from the department to get together and brainstorm about possible Learning websites, TV and Radio programmes to develop next year. At this meeting we were mainly playing around with ideas about TV programmes examining the Scots language - maybe looking at who speaks Scots, where it's most prevalent and where it's not spoken any more.

I had the whole rest of the day (whooo) to myself to finalise my wishlist of voxpop contacts, and to tidy up the scoping document for the Factfile section.

Whew!

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