Last entry: Showcase

This last week, our team worked on finishing our project for showcase and also having all documentation ready to be delivered this upcoming Monday. We worked on fixing the minor errors that were found. We had a meeting on December, 6^th (Thursday), before the showcase, with our client. He mentioned how proud he was with our work. We also talked about improvements and recommendations with our client.

My contribution this week was to create/fix some graphics to the power point, create an executive summary and also compile all the documents together. And that’s it!! We are done with our project… I’ll miss my team and our client :) – great times!!!

Tutoring session 6200

This last Friday (November, 30^th), I helped Audra Edwards with her project. This service took 3hs. Apparently, Audra had been having problems with her audio files. She needed the audio to play in her project as soon as the learner would hit a certain frame in the FLA file and they could also play it again. Unfortunately, some of her buttons were not working, which took me a while to figure out. It seems like there was an action script code in her template that was not letting it work properly.

Desk Crit 4

Date: Wed 5 Dec 18:22:26 EST 2007
From: Daisyane Barreto Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: Desk Crit
To: buckeyes@uga.edu


Hi Sarah,

I’m really sorry for sending you such late desk crit. This semester has been crazy for me. I’m really sorry that.

Your project is really good :-)!! It’s very neat and I really like your idea. I know that the project itself is very special and personal to you since it’s related to your grandfather and his time in the navy.

I just have a few suggestions to your scrapbook and you might have already addressed those. I love the navigation items that you have in your site. They are really neat. However, I would suggest you to move them to the left side of your webpage ( or have all them align on the top of the page) and make them a little bit smaller. The reason of my suggestion is because by doing so you could have more free space on the right side of your webpage for pictures. I noticed that most of the time you need to scroll down to see the pics. So it would be good to have the pics following text.

Also, I think you could have some “roll overs” on the navigation items or some sort of labels just to make it clear for the users which is the content information that they will see once they clicked the button.

I guess that’s all that I have. I like the overall idea of your project and I hope this desk crit helps you. You did a great job and I think you project look very good :). Please, let me know if you need further feedback/information from me.

See you tomorrow on the showcase ;)!!

Daisy

Desk Crit 3

Date: Wed 5 Dec 17:43:37 EST 2007
From: Daisyane Barreto Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: Desk Crit
To: ggarner@uga.edu


Hi Gabrielle,

I was going through your project and I really enjoyed your idea. The theme that you chose for your project is great and I know that the project itself is very special and personal since it’s related to your home city. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of important information displayed on your website. I have few suggestions for your project, although some of them I have already talked with you about it ;). Here they are:

- Add some music: I think it would be great if you could have background music from the second line parade. I know this is just a detail, but I think it would give a touch to your project.
- Brief information New Orleans: Maybe, you could add or link from your project further information about the city like: important events, New Orleans music, etc. Especially, things that are not very common and most people do not know about it.
- Template: I noticed that you have a new template on your website. I like it, but some of the images and backgrounds are competing with text information that you have there. You might want to change them so it doesn’t overwhelm the user when he is reading the information provide by your website.
- Welcoming text – I love the welcoming text. I think it is a great idea, but I would suggest you to change the text font. It isn’t very easy to read. I like the one that you had previously. It was better.

I think that’s all that I have. I like the overall idea of your project and I hope this desk crit helps you. Please, let me know if you need more feedback. You did a great job ;-)

See you tomorrow on the showcase ;)!!

Daisy

Desk Crit 2

Date: Wed 5 Dec 17:07:08 EST 2007
From: Daisyane Barreto Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: Desk Crit
To: cjh9123@uga.edu


Hi Jea,

I really like the overall appearance of your project and the theme that you chosen - now, I wanna go snowboarding ;). Also, it is organized well and pretty easy to follow. I like the way you structured the website. The instructions on your project are very clear and you used a lot of visual aid, which helps users like me to understand how to snowboard.

There are few suggestions and comments that I would make to your project. First, I noticed that you used some sort of mask on the picture in the snowboard gear section. The color that you used in this mask is white and the woman in the picture is wearing a white outfit with some white accessories. This is just a detail, but it would be good if you could change the color of the mask to a light blue or something similar, so the user can see better what part he is selecting.

The other thing that I noticed and I’m not sure if this has something to do with my default browser (firefox), but some of the web links on the bottom of the page were not visible. Apparently, you are using a white color for the web links and I could not see because of the white background that you have. You might want to change that.

On the Snowboarding Skills, riding skills 2, there is a section called traversing. There is graphic picture on this section teaching the steps and how to do it. I had one idea when I saw this graphic. You could make a guide motion animation in flash or even let the user drag the snowboard men from the top to the bottom. This is just an idea and a minor detail for you project; I just thought it would be fun :).

Well, I think that’s all that I have. I really enjoyed your project and I think everybody will want to practice snowboard. You did a great job ;)!

Best regards,
Daisy

Desk Crit 1

Date: Wed 5 Dec 16:30:29 EST 2007
From: Daisyane Barreto Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: Desk Crit
To: zhench@uga.edu

Hi Zhen,

I really like the idea of you project and I think it is an excellent tool for elementary school teachers. Kids will love it since it is fun and there are activities that will help them to compose sentences or match the picture with word and so on. I have I few suggestions for your project though, but you might have already addressed them.
Here they are:

- Check your project in different browser: My default browser is firefox and I noticed that some of the things such as buttons and graphics were not opening or loading correctly. Thus, I think it would be good if you could check your project on different browsers to make sure they are working correctly.

- Activities: Regarding the activities, I though they were really interesting and I’m sure kids will love. However, depending on the grade level of your target audience I would suggest you to make it more simplistic. For example, in the activity that students compose a sentence, you could have the sentence already structured with the pictures and then users would just need to drag and drop the word on the bottom of the picture.

- Roll over buttons: I think it would be good if you could have roll over buttons on the main graphic (which I think it’s the monkey house). That would be helpful for students to locate themselves in your website and also, to tell them where they want to go next.

- Audio buttons: I noticed that you have audio buttons on your project and they are not working when I click on them. I know that you might have already addressed this, but just to let you know, okay?

I like the overall idea of your work and I hope this desk crit helps you. Please, let me know if you need more feedback.

Thanks and great job ;-),
Daisy

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Entry 14-15: Finalizing the project

These two last weeks, our team worked on the feedback that we received from our alpha evaluation, which was hold after the dress rehearsal. We worked on fixing the major errors and mistakes that people found. We had a meeting on November, 17^th (Sunday) to split up the work and get as much as we could done by November 24^th (Saturday) so we could hold our beta test this last Monday (November, 26^th).

My contribution this week was to develop some small graphic illustrations for our project such as a glossary and a ribbon icon. Also, I worked resizing the pictures that were blurred. In addition, I took out the tabs from the folder graphic and add the label “activities” to it.

For this week, I’ll continue working on graphics if we need. I might have to arrange some of the graphics for our presentation next week. Also, I’ll help to finalize our documentation and any other task that we might need to do in order to finalize our project.

Tutoring session: 6190

This last Monday (November, 12^th), I had a tutoring session with Eun Ju Jung. Our session took 2h 30 min. We talked about the concept of her project. I helped her making buttons for the planets in her project and how she could have the sun glowing while the user rollover it. Also, I showed her some good websites for helping her to develop her project, and I helped her with the layout of the homepage.

Tutoring session: 6200 (help)

This last week I helped Audra Edwards with some tasks such as how to create the sounds for her project and importing them to flash. Our session through out the week it took 1h 30 min.

Entry 13: dress rehearsal

This week, our team worked in getting everything from Unit 1 done to dress rehearsal. Also, we worked on getting our PPT presentation set up for dress rehearsal.

My contribution this week was to develop some of the final graphic illustrations for Unit 1 and also contribute to our PPT presentation.

For this week, I’ll continue working on the graphics that we might need for unit 1 and also the upcoming graphics for unit 2. I’ll help my team with any other task that we might need to do in order to finalize unit 2 for showcase.

Entry 12: Development phase

This week, our team worked together on this last Saturday. We tried to get as much as we could done. We worked on the interactions, graphic design and evaluation. We decided that we will have the unit 1 ready to go for the dress rehearsal, while we will still keep working on finalizing unit 2.

My contribution this week was to develop graphic illustrations for the lesson: plant diseases. Also, I was assigned to keep creating more illustrations for other lessons during this upcoming week.

For this week, I’ll continue working on the graphics and I’ll help my team with any other task that we might need to do in order to finalize unit 1 for dress rehearsal.

Entry 11: Development

This week, our team worked on putting the content inside the Flash File and we also divide some small work/parts among the team members. My contribution this week was to develop a photo stack in flash that would be used in the book section of our project. Also, I was assigned to develop more illustration requested by the team.

Next week, I think we will continue working on the flash file and also, on the ActionScript code.

Entry 10: Developmet

This week, our team worked on creating the flash file for our project, the standards of using it and the activities and test items that we will provide to the user. Emily and I worked on some navigation and flash structure. My contribution this week was to fix some background screens and create some needed graphics.

Next week, I think we will probably work on put everything in flash since we have established the main standards and also, figure some ActionScript code that we need for our project.

Service hours: Following-up Tutoring Session (6200)

This last Friday (October 12^th), I had a following-up tutoring session with Audra Edwards. Our session took 1h 30 min. We talked about scripting to her project. I explained to her the basic script that I used for my project and also I compromised myself to look for more scripts that would be useful for her project. We also talked about what would be the best way to set her project.

Entry 9: Prototype

This week, our team worked on the prototype of our project. My contribution was to provide all the needed graphics and backgrounds for our PPT prototype based on the changes and comments made in our last meeting.

Next week, I think we will probably work on set things in flash; start to select and resize pictures, start linking the pages, etc.