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Lecture 15

Short Course Review

Term Project Evaluations

Guiding Principles

Summary

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Comfort

Sophistication

Course Scope?

Play it Safe• HTML Basic Coding• Basic Text & Images Web Pages• Images & Narration• More Theory

Play for More• Meaningful Term Project • Early Exposure to Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash• Progressive Increase in Skill & Comfort Level• Create complex animations• No Pain, No Gain

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Comfort

Sophistication

Course Challenge

Wait!Reward is Close.

ANXIETYFrustration

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Comfort

Sophistication

InteractiveMultimediaWebsite thatCommunicates

Course Reward

Beginning of Sense of What is POSSIBLE

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Mechanics – Goals Evaluation Criteria

Mechanics - technical competency in web and multimedia design: – Navigation

– Easy to find your way? Consistent Primary Navigation? Site ID? Page name?

– Layout– Clear, instant Visual Hierarchy?

Pages easy to understand? "Look & feel" enticing?

– Typography– Text easy to read? Designed for scanning?

– Visuals– Graphics easy to understand? Image Layouts tell a story?

Animations are well constructed? tell a story?

– Interactivity– Use of interactive elements - links, rollovers, image maps?

Interactive elements easy to understand and effective?

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Meaning – Goals Evaluation Criteria

Meaning - concise presentation of content and effective use of multimedia: – Clarity

– Content easy to understand?

– Conciseness– Content presented in a concise form?

Enough information but not too much?

– Relevance– Content informative? Relevant? Insightful?

Creativity– Creative Use of text, images, multimedia & interactivity? – Creative Approach to answering the question: "Why be a

Librarian in the 21st Century?"

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Evaluation of Term Projects

Term Projectshttp://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~aspoerri/Teaching/MPOnline/finalprojects_online.htm

Will upload page Tuesday 8am

Evaluation– Please discuss and provide constructive feedback in the Threaded

Discussion devoted to the Term Project.– Decided not to use the Evaluation Interface this semester, where

you could provide anonymous feedback – the Threaded Discussion offers a free form format for evaluating the Term Projects.

Enjoy

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Highlights from Previous Classes

These are some of the sites created by students in previous classes.

If they can do it, you can do it!

Black, Holly

Goetjen, Deborah

Leonard, Laura

Luderitz, Marygrace

Lyu, Mi-Sun

Latimer, Nancy

Pejsa, Stanislav

Weiner, Sally

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Highlights from 1st Online Class

These are some of the sites created by students in previous classes.

If they can do it, you can do it!

Adams, Molly

Arnett, Barbara

Harris, Robert

Jager, Rebecca

Johnson, Rosemary

Nelson, Jennifer

Patterson, SaraZoe

Pearson, Melissa

Prudente, Stephanie

Riggs, Vickie

Seguine, Patricia

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Guiding Principles

Simple– “Don't make me think!” – “Don’t force the user to think”

Less is More– Cut text is half

Easy Navigation– Where am I? – How do I get to …?

Tell a Story

Be Creative

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Summary

"Why be a Librarian in the 21st Century?"– Communicate Your Vision– Share Your Passions– Create Cool Website– Calling Card

Learn New Skills & Vocabulary

Learn MECHANICS– To use Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash

Create MEANING