Tofu and Flax

'Dunno how to refer to the weekly meetings Alecia and I are having -- maybe we need a name for them, hey? For now I'll just include vegan ingredients in the blog title to clue you in. (Doing so immediately suggests names: Parlsey parley, The Hummos huddle, The tofu talks, etc.)

Anyhow, Alecia and I met on Wednesday and this time we talked more about where my project is heading. It was very helpful --having someone pick away at my waffling, and suggest ways forward. What came out was that if I'm going to ground this project I'll need to start talking to teachers, as well as education and CS/education researchers, since they'll be able to point out what's in the curriculum now and give me some guidance on where best to spend my effort. I'm very fortunate to know a successful highschool teacher (who happens to read ths blog!) and has already been sending me lots of great info. Of course, I'm still lacking a definite research angle to this project, so I'm still worrisomely wandering.

We discussed Alecia's project as well. She's going to find out about what aspects of the NPRI maps blind users need in order to make sense of them. This will give her the appropriate aspects of the map to concentrate on translating into text. I suggested she leaves the question of whether the map interface can be unified to work with both sighted and non-sighted users until she knows more about what non-sighted users need.