Log of hours and activities for each learning goal: weekly digest of activities and hours worked, plus cumulative total hours worked. Use a similar format as this table.
Weekly Activity | Hours | Total Hours | |
Week 1 | Flew to New Orleans | 7 | |
Walked from Uptown to the French Quarter, ate BBQ and a fried shrimp po boy | 7 | ||
Visited a used book store, spent time talking with owner about New Orleans cuisine and purchased a book for future research | 2 | ||
Spoke with locals (including and employee of the New Orleans School of Cooking) about places to go and eat authentic food and listen to music | 3 | ||
Sat on Bourbon street and listened to musicians, walked about 5 miles to see things/ talk with locals | 10 | ||
Walked to Wild Lotus Yoga Studio/ Co op and healing center, spoke with employees and made plans for future time | 2 | ||
Started compiling media for movie project | 2 | ||
Visited the Museum of Southern Cuisine | 4 | ||
Began reading The Underground Guide to New Orleans | 1 | ||
Worked on blog | 2 | ||
Kept updated with peer blogs | 2 | ||
Online research | 5 | ||
Week 2 | Talked to local musicians | 4 | |
Online research of RASA | 2 | ||
Cooked beniegts | 2 | ||
Went to 3 musical performances | 10 | ||
Reading | 5 | ||
Local dining experiences | 6 | ||
Academic statement | 3 | ||
Peer blog reading | 3 | ||
Made movie/worked on future blog posts | 5 | ||
Lecture at Loyola University about music industry | 3 | ||
Busked with an old musician I met in the French Quarter | 4 | ||
Week 3 | Reading and research | 12 | |
Watched “The Big Easy” | 2 | ||
Made 2nd movie/ cooked jambalaya | 6 | ||
Cooked fried oysters/ harvested oysters | 5 | ||
Computer work (blog etc.) | 5 | ||
Book shopping | 2 | ||
Podcast | 2 | ||
Week 4 | Worked on 2 more videos (compiled footage/ editing) | 10 | |
Research/ reading | 10 | ||
Watched videos about New Orleans to compare w/ my own research | 5 | ||
“itsneworleans.com” (listening to podcasts/ reading articles) | 3 | ||
updated with peer blogs | 1 | ||
Connecting RASA with Terroir | 3 | ||
Finding answers to the questions asked in my ILC proposal | 3 | ||
Week 5 | Ethnomusicology research | 3 | |
Watched “New Orleans: The Natural History” | 1 | ||
Watched “New Orleans in Exile” | 2 | ||
Watched “Spoken: Colorism and the New Orleans Creole” | 1 | ||
Website work | 10 | ||
Evaluations | 3 | ||
Presentations | 4 | ||
Shopping/cooking/making music | 10 | ||
Reading | 5 | ||
Read peer blogs | 2 | ||
Edit last video | 5 | 205 |