Checking in on what I have done for our Feature Creature assignment, I am on track. I saved my two pitches in a Google doc from when we would have our pitch session in class, so that was a quick upload to my ePortfolio. I also started to think of questions and a focus or direction I wanted my story to take while I came up with the pitch, so I had notes and a few questions to work off of as I started my first draft of around 300 words. I had a meeting with Dean Millen set up for Feb 5th for an unrelated topic, but as we chatted about my classes, I mentioned this project, and he was more than happy to answer a few questions. Those major quotes were a great start, and I posted my second draft of around 500 words. Since then, I have been fine-tuning my questions and figuring out what angle I want to bring to this story. At first, I wanted to keep it to whether students’ feelings about the schedule changed and why or why not. However, after meeting with Dean Millen, some of his points made me reexamine what I wanted to highlight. So far, I have conducted all of my interviews – I have quotes from a junior and two seniors to work off of. Before Friday, I will post my peer review draft, as it is pretty close to ready for that now.