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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