Lecture 15
Short Course Review
Term Project Evaluations
Guiding Principles
Summary
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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
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Course Challenge
Comfort
Wait!
Reward is Close.
ANXIETY
Frustration
Sophistication
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Course Reward
Comfort
Interactive
Multimedia
Website that
Communicates
Beginning of Sense of
What is POSSIBLE
Sophistication
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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 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
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Highlights from Previous Classes
These are some of the sites created
by students in previous classes.
Black, Holly
Goetjen, Deborah
If they can do it,
you can do it!
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.
Adams, Molly
Arnett, Barbara
If they can do it,
you can do it!
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
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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
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