This week has been very busy first kicking off with a meeting with our client, Dr. Powell. She listened, gave input as well as feedback on our storyboards including interactivity for each of our six units. We made adjustments to the storyboards and decided to meet face to face on Monday the 24th instead of online in Horizon Wimba.
During our Monday meeting we worked on adding content to our web pages. Our homework was to continue in that vein so that we could have adding content completed by our regular meeting Thursday evening. We are getting past the design portion of our project and actually working on the development, which feels pretty good.
This week:
1. Perhaps visit Josh's SIG on 3-D animation.
2. Find graphics to include in project.
3. Decide on example items to include in content.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
15/5 March 19, 2008
Although I didn’t write a 15/5 for last week due to my being out of town for two days with 450 8th graders traveling on a bus to Savannah, Ga., much work did go on last week. It was also UGA’s spring break week so we didn’t meet on Thursday as we usually do. Genesis team did meet online in Horizon Wimba, Monday, the 10th and discussed our storyboard activities for the project. I found a website that has good as well as easy to understand examples of various types of storyboards (I’ll make sure to put it in the Studio Wikki) so we adopted a version to use.
We met as a team this Monday, the 17 to go over our storyboard and make it as detailed as possible so when we present it to Dr. Powell, she will be able to visualize our ideas. Well, that’s what we hope will happen. As a result of Monday’s meeting we also must develop pre/post test questions as part of our evaluation process. These questions will be given to a sampling of our target audience. The pretest results will provide us a baseline of the learner’s knowledge and hopefully these results will support our posttest results which will conclude that the students did indeed gain knowledge due to utilizing our product.
We meet with Dr. Powell Thursday evening and will present her with our storyboard, pre/post test questions which she will approve and submit to her students. The next step is to begin building our product and move toward the final project phases.
Next week:
1. Building project framework
2. Design and development of interactivity
We met as a team this Monday, the 17 to go over our storyboard and make it as detailed as possible so when we present it to Dr. Powell, she will be able to visualize our ideas. Well, that’s what we hope will happen. As a result of Monday’s meeting we also must develop pre/post test questions as part of our evaluation process. These questions will be given to a sampling of our target audience. The pretest results will provide us a baseline of the learner’s knowledge and hopefully these results will support our posttest results which will conclude that the students did indeed gain knowledge due to utilizing our product.
We meet with Dr. Powell Thursday evening and will present her with our storyboard, pre/post test questions which she will approve and submit to her students. The next step is to begin building our product and move toward the final project phases.
Next week:
1. Building project framework
2. Design and development of interactivity
Saturday, March 1, 2008
15/5's March 5, 2008
This week the Genesis Learning Team is getting closer to where the actual rubber meets the road… the design phase of our project for ACA. I am continuing to get our html. file to a place where we can actually begin to design and import actual content into our webpage. I decided to ask Trudy, one of our great 6200 consultants, to send me the html. file of her screen shot. This hopefully will make this part of the project go a little smoother.
Our presentation of our project for the Studio, I believe, went very well. Roman’s “KeyPoint” presentation (Mac’s version of PowerPoint) was awesome and of course Myra presented the information in excellent fashion. Dr. Powell was present and she again stated her pleasure to be a part of the Studio experience.
This semester is flying by and I’m getting a little anxious about getting everything done. However, worrying will create little assistance in that aspect so I guess just moving forward is the best solution.
This week we are beginning to work on the design portion of our project. I am beginning the storyboard on PowerPoint so we can visualize the feel and interaction of our module. Melinda is working on the assessment piece; Myra is going through the content to section it for inclusion in each webpage. Roman is working on the hardware and software aspects and Radcliff is I believe working on Beta testing components.
This week:
1. Get design ready for webpage
2. Meet Monday in Wimba for updates.
Our presentation of our project for the Studio, I believe, went very well. Roman’s “KeyPoint” presentation (Mac’s version of PowerPoint) was awesome and of course Myra presented the information in excellent fashion. Dr. Powell was present and she again stated her pleasure to be a part of the Studio experience.
This semester is flying by and I’m getting a little anxious about getting everything done. However, worrying will create little assistance in that aspect so I guess just moving forward is the best solution.
This week we are beginning to work on the design portion of our project. I am beginning the storyboard on PowerPoint so we can visualize the feel and interaction of our module. Melinda is working on the assessment piece; Myra is going through the content to section it for inclusion in each webpage. Roman is working on the hardware and software aspects and Radcliff is I believe working on Beta testing components.
This week:
1. Get design ready for webpage
2. Meet Monday in Wimba for updates.
15/5 February 27, 2008
This is also a late entry but at least I can say I’m catching up. This week we met with Dr. Powell who so far seems very pleased with what the Genesis team has proposed for the module. She expressed her desire for the module to have an interesting interface, colorful as well as imaginative graphics which the directors will enjoy seeing which hopefully will promote interest in its use.
The Genesis Learning team also discussed and reviewed the screen design and decided some definite alterations to the original design. Of course I’m still having issues getting the screen shot into a form I can make changes to it but I have asked Trudy to send me the original png. file so I can open it in Fireworks to make adjustments.
The team has several new deliverables we must work on. At this point Radcliff is taking on the Evaluation Plan with Melinda as backup person; the Hardware/Software specifications are being worked on by Melinda with Roman acting as her back up. Myra is continuing her work on the User Profile and of course I’m still struggling with the screen design but I’m determined not to let this get to me.
Next week:
1. Team presentation: Myra and Roman will work on for Thursday.
2. Continue work on assigned tasks.
The Genesis Learning team also discussed and reviewed the screen design and decided some definite alterations to the original design. Of course I’m still having issues getting the screen shot into a form I can make changes to it but I have asked Trudy to send me the original png. file so I can open it in Fireworks to make adjustments.
The team has several new deliverables we must work on. At this point Radcliff is taking on the Evaluation Plan with Melinda as backup person; the Hardware/Software specifications are being worked on by Melinda with Roman acting as her back up. Myra is continuing her work on the User Profile and of course I’m still struggling with the screen design but I’m determined not to let this get to me.
Next week:
1. Team presentation: Myra and Roman will work on for Thursday.
2. Continue work on assigned tasks.
15/5 February 20th 2008
This is a late entry so although the information pertaining to the week of the 20th, I am getting to it on March 1, 2008. Regardless of the tardiness of the entry, and I do apologize, this should reflect the activity for the week.
My assignment this week seems to be a simple one, I am to use the screen shot Trudian design for the Genesis team and make the changes we have discussed. Well, what may seem simple often has a way of becoming difficult. I spend several hours trying to take the png. file Trudy sent to me and convert it to html.
Trudy mentioned it was just a matter of exporting it as html. into Dreamweaver. However, no matter how many times I try to export, it would not convert into html. I eventually end up attempting to recreate the image in Fireworks for our use but that also doesn’t work well. Since this my first attempt at working with Fireworks and was so far unsuccessful trying to do something I really wanted to do instead of just experimenting, it is a very frustrating experience.
On a more positive note, our team has gotten the sign off on all of deliverables so far. We have a few things to tweak here and there, but for the most part we have gotten the majority of it completed.
We will meet with Dr. Powell tomorrow in team meeting to propose questions about how she envisions the module. We want the module to represent what she believes her camp directors will respond to most positively. In order for this to be a successful prototype for ACA to utilize in the future, it must be something the target audience in this case, the new camp directors, find inviting and user friendly.
Next week:
1. Dr. Powell’s insight on what she would like to see the module become.
2. Look at new deliverables to determine what’s next.
3. Get that screenshot into a usable format.
My assignment this week seems to be a simple one, I am to use the screen shot Trudian design for the Genesis team and make the changes we have discussed. Well, what may seem simple often has a way of becoming difficult. I spend several hours trying to take the png. file Trudy sent to me and convert it to html.
Trudy mentioned it was just a matter of exporting it as html. into Dreamweaver. However, no matter how many times I try to export, it would not convert into html. I eventually end up attempting to recreate the image in Fireworks for our use but that also doesn’t work well. Since this my first attempt at working with Fireworks and was so far unsuccessful trying to do something I really wanted to do instead of just experimenting, it is a very frustrating experience.
On a more positive note, our team has gotten the sign off on all of deliverables so far. We have a few things to tweak here and there, but for the most part we have gotten the majority of it completed.
We will meet with Dr. Powell tomorrow in team meeting to propose questions about how she envisions the module. We want the module to represent what she believes her camp directors will respond to most positively. In order for this to be a successful prototype for ACA to utilize in the future, it must be something the target audience in this case, the new camp directors, find inviting and user friendly.
Next week:
1. Dr. Powell’s insight on what she would like to see the module become.
2. Look at new deliverables to determine what’s next.
3. Get that screenshot into a usable format.
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