Week 6 - Web Site and Multimedia Delivery

Objectives
Reading
Individual Project
Learning Team Project
Lecture - Multimedia Testing Instruments

Objectives:

• Formulate a copyright statement based on current laws for Web site and multimedia presentations.
• Analyze the value of beta testing (formative assessment) for Web site and multimedia presentation.
• Identify various multimedia delivery technologies.

Reading

Read Chapters 17 & 18 in Multimedia: Making It Work

Also, refer to the secondary readings for this week to glean some helpful information to help you with your web site.

Individual Project - Personal Web Site, Final

Use this week to upload your Power Point lecture to your server and to link to it from one of your pages on your Personal Web Site.

Additionally, work on any remaining tasks for the Personal Web Site Project.

Learning Team Project – Each team will evaluate the other teams' web site using their evaluation rubric. Post your evaluation report in the Main newsgroup under the Learning Team thread.

Check the Calendar for specific due dates for all assignments, both individual and team.

Just as a reminder that there is no allowance made for late assignments after the end of the course. All assignments must be finalized and turned in no later than Midnight (MST) on Monday of this week. I will not be able to accept any work after this time.

Last week we discussed the many aspects of interactive multimedia, some of the tools that create and deploy it, and how to manage the complexity of the integration of interactive multimedia.

This week the discussion centers on copyright and web site testing

Copyright

Whether you are going to be an online teacher or design educational web sites, it's important to become familiar with copyright law in regards to educational materials. The most pertinent laws you need to familiarize yourself with are the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and TEACH act. Here's are a couple of excellent web resources:

Copyright and Web Teaching at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7ewebteach/articles/copyright.html

Copyright Bay at: http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/fairuse.htm

Copyright and Fair Use at: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

My favorite is the Copyright Crash Course by Georgia Harper, legal counsel for the University of Texas System: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

Testing:

You've been practicing testing your website over the past couple of weeks. There are three stages of testing that must occur in the web design process to ensure usability, functionality, and accuracy of materials.

Stage one, or Alpha testing, is what you've been doing over the past couple of weeks. You create your pages or add functionality to them, upload them to your server and test them out to make sure that they look and behave the way you want them to.

Stage two, or Beta testing, occurs when you have others test out your site. You are fairly satisfied with what you see and how you think your site behaves for you, but now you need a few others to test it out to see if they get the same results.

Stage three occurs after you've received your feedback from your Beta testing, made changes and tested again, then released the site to the public. You conduct site evaluations to ask for feedback from your users and visitors, students and others, on how the site to working for their purposes. Gather this feedback and plan to make further changes and enhancements.

All three stages of testing are absolutely essential to create a well-designed, functioning web site.

1. Explain what process you found to be the most difficult while creating your Personal Web Site?
2. Explain what process you found to be the most difficulty while creating your Team Web Site? During the collaboration, how effective was the assignment of duties by job descriptions?

Your constructive feedback on this class will help UOP (and me) improve this class.