Design that Matters Field Journal

Recording the Experience

Now that we have less than a week to go before the Kinkajou team leaves Mali, it's important that we try to capture as much information as possible. At night after our meetings, the students have started compiling their paper notes into on-line summaries for the field journal.

I've been working on indexing our videotapes (six hours so far, and counting), audio files (about 40 clips to date) and gigabytes of photos. I've got pages of notes with meeting details, and there's always a feeling of having a million other details in my head to write down.

Once the students head back to the US, my wife Elizabeth and I will head to Benin overland via Burkina Faso. We're hoping that a couple days on the beach at Grand Popo away from meetings and internet cafes will give us a chance to get caught up on organizing all of our records.