Alex- What I am thinking about my new topic.

In all honesty my views of the topic itself have not changed at least in the sense that i have made no profound discoveries, I have had no eye-opening interviews or seen some fact that changed my views on life. Instead my thinking is changing in the logistical sense, when I went into the overnight I was a lone wolf, going at this alone. By the end of the day however I was joined by four other people who are passionate for the issue and now everything is changing. Changing not in the topic itself but rather how we go about attacking it, the massive switch from one person to five changes the logistics of this project immensely. Nearly all the changes are good ones, we now have five times the interviewers, five times the researchers, and five times as many minds working together to solve problems. This is a great addition, but the point of this blog post to me at least is not to extol what we already have, but rather to puzzle out what issues may have arisen, because hearing what you are already doing right is never as as helpful as hearing what you can make better. The biggest issue in my mind right now is the media kit. We have fewer media kits than we do people and we as well as the group members who are the farthest afield, and this leads to serious issues in these critical months when we are interviewing a myriad of people. I cannot speak for the rest of us but I know that my phone and my school camcorders are not high enough quality for this project, and with media kits so spread out, I am rather stuck. The only idea I have to solve this would be if we as a team scheduled it so each person did all of their interviews withing a 1-2 week slot and at the end of that time they would meat with the next member and pass off the kit relay style. This still involves a fair amount of driving, but it would be a vast improvement over having to bounce the kit back and forth again and again to get to each persons single interviews. Along with this ever-looming issue, the other piece that lays heavy on my mind is who i am going to interview. A of today I have made contact with potential interviewees including an administrator and a case worker at our local DCF office, a long time therapist who specializes in children with home and family issues, and a recent graduate from my school who now works in the Barre office. While I am beginning to talk with these people, I am hesitant to set up an interview until we (the group) set up a plan to schedule the use of the recording equipment. Until then I will simply continue to talk to these people and brainstorm a mess of interview questions.