Ack! I almost forgot to post this again! (I am up to my ears in Flash programming, so I got a little sidetracked.)
This week has been another productive one for Imaginative Designs. We set some very specific goals for tomorrow's class, and settled on a division of labor that worked for everyone. Here's what we worked out:
We're hoping to get a rough working version of the modules together this week. It's very important to me that we get the Flash interactions and video portions meshed together ASAP, and we can tweak the graphic design elements later. I'm still concerned about time, but I think that our whole team and our clients are aware of our deadlines and we're all working together to make this happen. Alissa has posted the remainder of the necessary content on the wiki, and we will be contacting her if anything is missing or confusing. Jea created some graphic design for us that we will be reviewing tomorrow, and we should have some additional work for our consultants next week. We are focusing very intently on the Dress Rehearsal and having our product ready for a beta test in April. We will have two team members out on Thursday, but they both provided us with the materials on Sunday, so we've got plenty to work on.
Back to Flash!
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
15/5 Week Eleven
We are moving right along. We met with Alissa on Friday March 7 and had a very productive meeting. Alissa has been working hard to get us the remaining content we need to develop the modules. We got a lot of questions answered at the meeting. We've narrowed our audience down to just 7th grade, and clarified some content issues that we had.
Last week was Spring Break, but we decided to take advantage of the time and meet on Thursday anyways. We scripted the entire module for Goal 1 and worked some on the other goals as well. We met again on Sunday night and got lots accomplished. We've worked through all the video that Dr. Schell gave us, and Sunny (one of our 6200 consultants) and Amy worked on moving all the usable clips to a hard drive. Cheryl and Lindsay worked on scripting Goal 2 and Audra and I worked on programming some of the Flash interactions. The division of labor worked nicely, and I felt like it was an extremely productive use of our time.
We've got a test site up here: http://www.identitywebandphoto.com/6210/ We'll be using this space to host the project for testing, etc, until we can get it moved to the COE website. It's still a work in progress but it gives us a framework and an idea of space.
Now, we just need to continue to work on making our great ideas a working module!
Things to do:
-6200 consultants - continue to give assignments
-Storyboards / flowcharts
-Test interactions on test site
-Continue with scripting and programming
Last week was Spring Break, but we decided to take advantage of the time and meet on Thursday anyways. We scripted the entire module for Goal 1 and worked some on the other goals as well. We met again on Sunday night and got lots accomplished. We've worked through all the video that Dr. Schell gave us, and Sunny (one of our 6200 consultants) and Amy worked on moving all the usable clips to a hard drive. Cheryl and Lindsay worked on scripting Goal 2 and Audra and I worked on programming some of the Flash interactions. The division of labor worked nicely, and I felt like it was an extremely productive use of our time.
We've got a test site up here: http://www.identitywebandphoto.com/6210/ We'll be using this space to host the project for testing, etc, until we can get it moved to the COE website. It's still a work in progress but it gives us a framework and an idea of space.
Now, we just need to continue to work on making our great ideas a working module!
Things to do:
-6200 consultants - continue to give assignments
-Storyboards / flowcharts
-Test interactions on test site
-Continue with scripting and programming
Thursday, March 6, 2008
15/5 Week Nine
(Yikes, this is late! I'm sorry, Greg - it slipped my mind last night.)
This week was a pretty stressful one for our team. We worked very hard on planning out some interactions for our online modules, and then some communication from our client made us rethink the work we had done. One of our goals for this project is to create instruction that is based in situated cognition, and we realized this week just how difficult that can be in an online environment.
We had a productive meeting with Greg on Thursday and developed a plan of attack for our client meeting on Friday. Then, we worked on a new idea for the module. Our scenario is that the learners are whale tour guides in training, and we're going to take them on a "whale watching trip" using video. During the trip, they will experience Flash interactions that freeze the video and ask them questions, or give them information about the content. After each lesson, there will be a check-in/stopping point where the students will be given an activity that takes them away from the computer to either work in a group or blog about their experience. (We hope to give them an open-ended question to reflect on that incorporates some of the content they've been learning.)
We presented this idea to Dr. Schell on Friday and he really loved it. He gave us 32 mini-dv tapes of footage, and we've divided up the tapes so we can start going through it and finding appropriate clips for our project. We're meeting with Alissa tomorrow and we'll talk with her about this new idea, the content, and other things we'll need her help with (like developing some rubrics and open-ended questions).
So, it started out as a stressful week, but I think it resulted in a very dynamic and exciting framework for our project. We have a lot of development in our future, but I know we can do it.
To Do:
This week was a pretty stressful one for our team. We worked very hard on planning out some interactions for our online modules, and then some communication from our client made us rethink the work we had done. One of our goals for this project is to create instruction that is based in situated cognition, and we realized this week just how difficult that can be in an online environment.
We had a productive meeting with Greg on Thursday and developed a plan of attack for our client meeting on Friday. Then, we worked on a new idea for the module. Our scenario is that the learners are whale tour guides in training, and we're going to take them on a "whale watching trip" using video. During the trip, they will experience Flash interactions that freeze the video and ask them questions, or give them information about the content. After each lesson, there will be a check-in/stopping point where the students will be given an activity that takes them away from the computer to either work in a group or blog about their experience. (We hope to give them an open-ended question to reflect on that incorporates some of the content they've been learning.)
We presented this idea to Dr. Schell on Friday and he really loved it. He gave us 32 mini-dv tapes of footage, and we've divided up the tapes so we can start going through it and finding appropriate clips for our project. We're meeting with Alissa tomorrow and we'll talk with her about this new idea, the content, and other things we'll need her help with (like developing some rubrics and open-ended questions).
So, it started out as a stressful week, but I think it resulted in a very dynamic and exciting framework for our project. We have a lot of development in our future, but I know we can do it.
To Do:
- Meet with Alissa Friday 3/7
- Review tapes and make notes of content/pull clips out
- 6200 consultant assignments
- Flash research (cue points, controlling video with Flash)
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