After meeting with Ross this morning, I changed the contract to conform to Dr. McDaniel’s suggestions.
1.) Ross and I decided to leave the Sabine Pass portion by the wayside and concentrate fully on developing the Houston map. If we have time (ha) after finishing everything, we can try working with the animation for the battle of Sabine Pass. But considering how pressed we are right now, such a map would only divide our labor too much and cause us more trouble, we think.
Here is what I took out, in case for some reason we need it again: “We will make a separate map to show how the battle unfolded to show gaps between memory and reality of it. Also this map will show why Dowling won at the battle of Sabine Pass (for example show how many ships were involved and how they were deployed by union forces. Though we may not have time to complete both maps, we will definitely compile all of the information necessary for the completion of the maps.”
2.) I updated the division of labor for Ross and me according to what we’ve already done or plan to do, and I see Craig has done the same for himself. We can continue to update this as we take on other responsibilities. I also wrote that we will keep our main research notes here on the group blog. I don’t see how/why we would need our own Google Doc? We will be using the Dowling archive created by the class and linking to it on the interactive map.
3.) As we’re only working on the Houston map, we should be able to complete it.