Lecture 15
Short Course Review
Term Project Evaluations
Guiding Principles
Summary
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
Course Scope?
Comfort
Play it Safe
Play for More
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HTML Basic Coding
Basic Text & Images Web Pages
Images & Narration
More Theory
Meaningful Term Project
Early Exposure to Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
Progressive Increase in Skill & Comfort Level
Create complex animations
No Pain, No Gain
Sophistication
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
Course Challenge
Comfort
Wait!
Reward is Close.
ANXIETY
Frustration
Sophistication
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
Course Reward
Comfort
Interactive
Multimedia
Website that
Communicates
Beginning of Sense of
What is POSSIBLE
Sophistication
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
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?
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
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?"
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
Evaluation of Term Projects
Term Projects
http://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
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
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
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri
Summary
"Why be a Librarian in the 21st Century?"
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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
SCLIS @ Rutgers
Multimedia Production Online
Prof. Anselm Spoerri