For the most part, we are meeting our milestones, and then some!

Based on our agreed upon template for carousel blog posts last week, I was able to create posts for some of our carousels, to which group members will create their own for their corresponding carousels. Carla has been keeping up with our map and worked out a kink with how to include a featured image on the pin. Leonard commenced outreach and got an excited (but $$$) reply from TimeOut NYC and a more subdued, but promising reply from Brooklyn Bridge Parents. Julissa put up our first post on Instagram and has been working on a social media schedule. She also created a lovely promotional bookmark with an order in (or about to go in!) to be ready to hand out at our May 13 presentation.

Some setbacks that have been mentioned before has been the difficulty visiting some carousels to take original photos/videos due to weather or them not being open yet for the season! To make up for this, we have strategized a way to find, incorporate, and give credit to creative common license photos- mostly found via Google Image Search -> Flickr.

We continue to have embedding issues on CUNY’s instance of WordPress- but now it’s not just the map! Turns out if a video isn’t YouTube or Vimeo- it ain’t embedding. We are also having a strange glitch with our logo showing up on our header on mobile, but not on PCs. Nicole was kind enough to suggest a contact (Laurie H.) at the Teaching and Learning Center at the GC. Laurie provides workshops and support for CUNY Academic Commons to faculty, but Nicole thought she may be willing to help. We have also put in a ticket to CUNY Academic Commons- so we’ll see! We know the things work on other WordPress instances- so a mystery abounds!

Most of us will be around for Spring Break and plan on putting some asynchronous individual work in. I (Kelly) will be out from Thursday-Tuesday (but in class!)