week14

Two weeks ago, we had our dress rehearsal, and we tried to get our unit 1 done by the dress rehearsal night. After the dress rehearsal, we did our alpha test with our consultants.

We set our beta test day on the 26th, so we tried our best to finish all of the project before the scheduled test date. I tried to make the conclusion part, so I wrote some reflection questions and added glossaries. I had two meetings with Emily to learn how to set "scrollbars" in Flash. We were not able to figure out how to print the document from Flash, so we decided to make a link to pdf files so that users can download the file and print it out as needed.

For the next week, we will try to sum up the results of our evaluation and will finalize the project development. Also, we will have a final meeting with our client.

week 13

Tomorrow is our dress rehearsal. We are now having our team meeting to get prepared for tomorrow night. Last week, our project manager Emily was not in the meeting, so we did not discuss much about our project, but only scheduled our team meeting before the dress rehearsal. One was yesterday, but I was not able to join because of another class.

Now, I am finalizing drag and drop activity for the lesson one, but still we have not conluded how to provide feedback. After the dress rehearsal, we will try our best to finish the project. I hope we can get lots of feedback tonight, so that we can improve our project.

week 12

Last week, we had a meeting and discussed specific schedule to work on development together. Each person took several parts of the activities, but anyway we decided to schedule specific dates so that we can gather at the same place and work together. Thus, our first development meeting was held last week. I worked on drag and drop exercise for the unit 1. It was more motivated and advantageous to work together, since we could ask each other when we had some difficulties with Flash. Although we spent the whole day developing this module, there wasn't much progress. Yet, anyway, we have started the work.

This week, Emily was out of town, but we had our meeting without her. Since she is not here in Athens on the weekend, we won't have a meeting this weekend. All of the team members except me will be gathered on Tuesday, but I won't be there as I have other trip schduled as a part of my class. Next week, I'll work on the lesson 3 as Daisy finishes her graphic work for the lesson 3.

week 11

Last week, we had our flash template ready and finalized the ideas about activities and exercieses. Each of us took the part that we would work on for our development. We had another meeting yesterday, to discuss the flash action scripts that we will use. Since the storyboard has been confirmed, we will assign the tasks for our consultants.

Personally, I worked on ideas for the part 2 in unit one-there were some unclear parts in activities. We will have our team meeting on the weekend to work on the development together. I'll mainly work on drag and drop parts.

week 10

Last week, we confirmed our ideas that we had for each lesson. Actually we talked that we would develop prototypes, but it turned out that it meant "storyboard". So, after some confusions, we all brought our storyboard and discussed the activities and ideas all together. I think now it is the time for developing prototypes.

Most of the content information was verified. Thus, this week the most of the time I checked the content and tried to find out any more supplementary information/images, and worked on the prototype.

week 9

Last week, we discussed the activities/interactions for the module, and decided details about the page design. Since we have a picture about what the module will be like, we could discuss things more specifically. There were some ideas that would be better to be included in our module, but that we did not know how to actualize those ideas.

This week, we will mainly work on developing our prototype. While developing the prototype, we'll also think more about interactivities and/or other activities in the module, and how content information is given.

# Week 8

Last week, we discussed more in detail about the screen design. We had our 6210 team presentation last week during the studio meeting, and Daisy prepared some screenshots and explained the concepts that we will use for our module. However, there was navigation bars missing, so that is what should be discussed further. Since we use icons of books, folders, notes, etc. instead of text menu, we should decide where and/or how we can put those icons when contents/activities are shown to the users.

This week, I was supposed to work with daisy helping her revise screenshots, but honestly I couldn't work on it much. I've got files from her yesterday, so hopefully I can work on it a bit today. As other half of the team works on the interaction ideas, we will discuss more about it this week and probably start storyboarding.