Karsten Theis/CV-ify it
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Why should it go on the CV?
Not every project should go on your CV. But if you plan to put some time into a project for a span of three months or more, maybe it should. If you make it CV-worthy, you might also get a bit more out of it because you have a better plan, you are more thoughtful about your time, you collaborate or you share your results.
How do I get it on the CV?
This works for projects that are almost large enough so you would put it on your CV anyway. The following steps just help you to be more motivated, efficient, on task, visible, or official, so your results will be a little bit more impressive or acknowledged.
Consult the literature
Build an annotated bibliography while you research around your project. This turns it into scholarship, and you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Even if you decide your project idea is a dead end, you now have an overview of what others have done, and you have a bibliography to show for.
Money
You can either invest (sign up for a workshop, pay for a website, buy fancier tools) or you can collect money (get a course release, submit an intramural grant, sell your product). Either way moves your project up a notch.
Collaborate
If you partner with the right people, you will get better results, it will be more fun, and it will be easier. The correspondence with your collaborators documents your project automatically.
Wear a hat
If you are - say - researching OER anyway, you might as well create the position of departmental OER liaison. Discuss the job description and the deliverables with your colleagues, and you have taken care of a large part of your project planning. Or reach out to your professional organization or partner institutions to give a workshop. Any of these will make your project official.
Publish
If you plan on presenting or publishing, it makes you more goal oriented. Publishing could be in a peer-reviewed journal, or it could be sharing with an open license and asking others to curate your results.
