HOW TO KEEP A PROGRESS JOURNAL
This is a sample progress post. You will be creating a new post each week to report on your progress. You can do many things with your progress blog: post videos, pics, or just write a bit about how you’ve advanced your project this week.
The point of the progress journal is to track your progress, not just for capstone grading purposes, but as a way to personally reflect on your project. You may change how you approach it; you may reverse course entirely. That’s fine! This gives you a space to explain your thought process so you can later understand your journey. Here are some things you may want to do, depending on the nature of your project/goals:
- If your project is a sculpture/physical project, take in-progress pictures. Caption them and explain what stage of the project you are in. These will serve you well later during presentations.
- If you have a video project, share stills from your raw footage. Explain where you are at in the process – filming? editing? audio?
- If you are engaged in research, give short reviews of the article/book/documentary you are reading/watching. Think of it as a chance to reflect upon the state of the conversation you are joining.
- Even if you don’t think you’ve made progress this week, still post a blog. You’d be surprised how your thoughts about it have changed even if you don’t think you’ve done any “work” on it. What have you been thinking about? What has kept you from advancing to the next stage of the process? What is working? What isn’t working?
