I thought of an idea for a main project for Brooklyn. What about making a website/community profile from all of the research we get. This would include the sports aspect, oral histories and general histories. Or maybe it can be a smaller project with just the histories. I realized today how much work is involved in researching. There are many in Brooklyn who don't know the history of their community and probably do not have the resources as we do to find out. Maybe we can give them a website that can have all of the research we have found all in one place. This is just an idea. I know the blog is meant or the Wiki but maybe we can make a different site too.

I had a good time today learning about the ways I can approach this project.
10:30-2:00 meeting with Drew, Dr. King and Katie
9-10:20 brainstorming and blog

JULY 16

I've spent the past two days looking over the goals for the project and researching. I also looked over many of the contact information, the history portfolio I made and past research that I had. I am looking forward to meeting with you next week so I can learn how to perform research better. There is so much that was found on Brooklyn, New York and I spent a good three hours yesterday trying to sort through all of it. I also did a basic google search on the crimes in the areas. I want to find some type of website or database that could provide me with the crime statistics for the past years. I wish I could find something that dated back to the beginning to look at how the crime has changed. I did go to Baltimore's police department website and they had a cool interactive map that showed what types of crime was performed and where. This only went back to the past 14 days though. I am wondering if I should contact them and see how to get more information. There is so much to do and I am glad that I am able to really focus on the study now. There is so much to do but I will get it done by the end of the summer. I think that once I am more clear on researching tips things might come a little easier. Next week I have some time set aside so that I can call churches in the area and also go to Enoch Pratt.
Wednesday hours- july 15th-
3 hours Jstor
Baltimore Sun 45 minutes
Thursday hours
1:40 min reading over past research
looking at area churches 35 minutes
Jstor- 40 min
Baltimroe Sun- 1 hr
Crime websites- 35 min
organizing- 30 min

Total hours for Wednesday and Thursday- 8 hours and 5 min