Thursday, October 4, 2007

Week 8: Report

Our team meeting tonight was lively, as usual. We went through the project timeline I provided and discussed various deliverables and actions listed. We reviewed Daisy's most recent screen designs and discussed elements to add to it. Ideas of interest from that discussion:

  • Captivate suggested as a tool to teach the learner about our module (how to navigate, what to expect, etc.)
  • Add navigation to module (help, back/foward buttons, icons for diff activities)
  • Use different objects in interface for exercises in particular units.
    • Unit 1: identification, imagery, and case studies (folder with tests, documents)
    • Unit 2: client interactions (phone call)
  • Adapt the notebook object to record a synopsis of the lesson, perhaps as closing summary.

The evaluation section of the project timeline was reviewed. Remi, suggest edits as needed. For our beta evaluation, Remi has suggested having 2 tests - one for each unit of our module. I will talk to Duren about who we can ask to do this, as well as timing. The beta eval will probably be near Thanksgiving, which could be difficult if we don't plan ahead.

We've decided to keep up with our time on our blogs, not in a separate spreadsheet. Be sure that you do this!

I suspect our 6200 consultants may be getting antsy from not having had much assigned yet. We are entering our development phase, so we should start distributing tasks very soon.

Week 8: Assignments

To do for next week:

  • Post recent documents (Emily)
  • Determine interactivity for content (Kazu, HueiHsien, Emily)
    • document ideas as needed (sketch, storyboard, description, etc.)
  • Screen and graphic design: look-and-feel, navigation, etc. (Daisy, Ahram)
  • Flowchart and screen specs of online system (Emily, HueiHsien)
  • Review project calendar docs (All)
  • Send to Holly, Duren (Emily)
    • Formative Evaluation Plan
    • Hardware/software specs
Team meeting, October 11:
To be outlined later....
  • Present/discuss ideas for interactivity
  • Distribute interactive work as possible
  • Present/discuss updates to screen design
  • other items of interest....
Upcoming work:
  • Flowchart, storyboards (Nov 1)

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Week 7: Report

This week Remi, Ahram, HueiHsien, and Kazu worked on flowcharts for each of our 3 goals. There is some concern about the size of our content, which we will need to discuss as a group. We've decided on a direction for our treatment and Daisy has been developing those screens. Emily has been working on the flowchart of the online learning system and will be putting together our presentation for the studio briefing tomorrow night.
Our weekly assignments are posted here:


Most of our documents and content have been uploaded to the documentation section of our blog:Hopefully we will begin major development work on our module this next week. We are all beginning to feel the crunch at this point in our project and are anxious to see development underway.