Post on 21-Dec-2015
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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
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