Individual

Multimedia: Making It Work (Vaughn) - all weeks. Chapters will be specified in each week's materials.

Additional readings from the UOP Student web and other resources posted on this instructional web site.

Tutorials have been provided to help you learn how to use PowerPoint, HTML and web development software to accomplish your projects. All tutorials can be found on the Tutorials page.

There will be 2 discussion questions each week. I will space these out over the course of the week, having the first one due on Saturday and the second on Monday of each week. I space them out to help you fulfill your participation requirements each week.

I post the questions at the beginning of each week, so feel free to work ahead and respond to both of them early in the week.

There will be no DQs in Week 6

DQ1 - Thursdays

DQ2 - Saturdays

I will post a thread on Mondays of Weeks 2, 4 & 5 that will be a Check-In thread. I'll be asking you how you are doing, what particular problems you might be experiencing, etc. Please use this format for your response:

Tell us one thing you learned this week

Tell us one thing that you are still struggling with

Do you have any questions left unanswered at the end of this week?

(10 pts. )

Using professional journals (and authoritative web sites), identify the top ten criteria for effective Web sites. Locate two web sites that meet the top ten criteria. Locate two web sites that meet less than five of the top ten criteria. Prepare a 700 - 1050 word paper listing the criteria and your critical analysis of the four web sites. Cite references using APA format.

HINT: You may want to use a table or matrix for your analysis. Refer to page 14 of the textbook (see project 1.1 under Lab Projects) for some ideas on how to format a table for this assignment

Overview of the project: Watch this presentation - Overview of the Project

During the remaining weeks you will create a personal Web site. This web site could be the start of a professional portfolio that you can expand on and use after you graduate to exhibit your resume and projects.

The project is divided into manageable parts:

HTML Exercise - In this exercise you will create a basic web page by writing in HTML code. You will also create a page storyboard and a site flowchart as part of the planning and design work. Due in Week 2

Part 1 - you'll start using an authoriing tool. Your choices are Mozilla Composer or Dreamweaver 8. You will create your page layout and then duplicate it to create the other pages in your site. Due in Week 3

Part 2 - you learn how to embed multimedia elements in your pages. Due in Week 4

Part 3 - you will finalize your web site. The final site is due in Week 6.

Use the tutorials posted on the Tutorials page or conduct your own Web search for tutorials to learn how to create a web site.

Important:

The Personal Web Site assignment is a cumulative assignment, meaning that it is highly advisable that you complete each set of tasks in the week assigned or you'll experience difficulty continuing on. But you can get points for each task at anytime you complete it, whether it is far in advance of when it is due, or if you just didn't quite get it to work during a particular week.

For example, this week you must have two pages and have them linked to each other or you can't continue on with next week's assignment. But if you can't get your photo or graphic to load or your email link to work, that's ok, keep working on it.

HTML Primer (10 pts.)

The assignment:

Go through the HTML Primer in Week 2 . You will be using NotePad and writing HTML. This takes a little time to do, so get started early in the week.

(10 pts.):

Upload your Web site to your Web-host server and post the URL under the appropriate thread in Week 2.

Web Hosting:

Locate a Web host to upload your site to if your ISP does not give you server space. My past students have found Tripod and Geocities fairly easy to use. You can also use Angelfire, but my student and I find that it is not very user-friendly. I would check with your ISP first.

Whomever you decide to use will depend upon whether you can load audio, video, graphics and powerpoint files on the server. These are all some of the components that you will be required to incorporate into your web site. Some ISPs don't allow for some files types and functions. Print off the checklist for the web site assignment and make sure that you can do all of them on your web space with your ISP.

For the free sites, don't use any of the "Site Builder" functions. You can use the File Manager functions. The site builders create your pages for you, which defeats the purpose of this assignment and besides, I can tell if you've used one of the site builder templates, and I'll make you do it all over again from scratch. So you may as well do it the right way from the start, yes?

The File Manager functions on the free sites allow you to upload the files you create using NotePad (Week 2) and Mozilla Composer or Dreamweaver (Weeks 3 - 6) from your computer to the web server.

If you are using your own ISP, I would suggest that you use CoreFTP or Smart FTP to upload your files. You can find tutorials and information on how to download these programs on the resources page (Do Not Use and FTP program if you are using Angelfire, Geocites, or Tripod).

Again, I would strongly suggest that you find out where you’ll be uploading your pages and how to do it. In fact, in the first couple of days this week, find out how to do this and upload your index page or a sample page.

Lastly, you must upload your site to your server this week. Do not wait until Monday to upload your pages for the first time. I've had far too many students who have missed the due date because they experienced troubles at first. Upload a sample page in the first few days to give yourself enough time to figure out how to do it, and to trouble shoot any technical issues that may arise.

Part 1- Begin to Build Your Website (8 pts)

Using either Mozilla Composer or Dreamweaver (any version):

Upload all pages and files to your server and post the URL in the main classroom thread under Week 3.

Use the tutorials posted on the tutorials page. Begin with the Basic Website creation tutorials.

Again, use Mozilla Composer or Dreamweaver 8 (or other version). If you are going to be using another software, please let me know.

Part 2 - Web site Enhancement (12 pts)

Continue using Mozilla Composer or Dreamweaver to incorporate elements of multimedia into your web site (12 pts.):

Replace text links with buttons	2
Create or link to a feedback form or guestbook	2
Create a privacy policy statement	1
Make the privacy policy statement open in a new browser window	1
Embed an audio clip	3
Embed a video clip	3
Total Possible Points	12

Continue to use the Basic Website Creation tutorials to help you complete these tasks.

If you need an audio or video clip to embed in your site, you can use one of the ones on the resources page.

You MUST use the embed tag for the audio and the video (NOT the powerpoint). You won't get credit for the task if you link to either or both of them.

Upload your files to the server and test.

Website Final - (10 pts.)

This week you will work on getting all of the tasks completed for your web site and WORKING!

Remember that you get the points from earlier weeks when you get the task done and working.

This week's points will come from a couple of different sources:

• 5 pts will come from the Grading Rubric
• 5 pts will be based on overall design, form and function of the website as determined by a web design expert (me)

You have until the last day of the course to finish your web site and make sure that everything is included, uploaded and working. Use this week to correct anything that you've discovered over the past few weeks or to try something new. Post teh URL in the main classroom thread

Learning Team Project

Overview of Team Website Project

Team Roles

Functioning as a project team, each learning team will design and develop a Web site for either corporate training or an adult education setting. The design team will be composed of the following roles:

Project Manager (PM):

• oversees the entire team project
• prepares timeline
• defines tasks
• determines milestones
• may use Excel, MS Project, and/or Gantt chart
• responsible for posting the team's assignments in the proper place by the due date/time

Instructional Designer (ID):

• designs online self-paced training lesson using an ISD model
• assists Multimedia Designer in selecting graphics to be implemented into the online self-paced training lesson

Subject Matter Expert (SME):

• creates rubric for team website evaluation
• assists Instructional Designer with online self-paced training lesson
• edits web site for content and grammar

Graphics Designer (GD):

• design/selects either a corporate or school logo
• incorporates graphics into the Web site
• assists Project Manager with flowchart
• Assists Instructional Designer in selecting graphics to be incorporated into the online self-paced training lesson

Web Designer (WD):

• Publishes the web site
• Assists Project Manager with flowchart
• Assists Multimedia Designer with graphics

  NOTE: If there are less than five member on the team, one or more team members will assume multiple roles. If there are more than five members, assign multiple members to the same role.

Project Requirements

The Team Website Project is the design and development of a VERY BASIC web site used for educational or training purposes.

The Team Website Project is composed of the following elements:

• Home Page (index) with either a corporate or school logo
• Flowchart of the entire Web site (attach to the team posting, doesn't have to be included in the website)
• Daily news bulletin that opens in a new window (pop-up window)
• Corporate/school policies
• Copyright policy that opens in a new window (pop-up window)
• Training calendar with links to the description of three possible training classes and registration form
• FAQ’s (minimum of ten)
• Bookmarks/anchors to FAQ’s
• Rubric for Web site evaluation (based on the top ten criteria for effective Web sites)
• Online lesson - each learning team will create a 10-15-minute online self-paced training lesson to attain one performance-based objective. This lesson must be accompanied by visuals and an e-Assessment. You may refer back to the instructional plan developed in CUR 524, or you may develop a training plan to meet a present need.
• Navigation buttons
• Transfer team’s Web site to the Web-host server
• Post the URL for the team website in the main newsgroup every week by Midnight, Central Time.

Remember to keep this project very small, and very simple! If the team wants to present an idea for the website to me before work begins, that's fine. The project lead should email me with the idea.

Weekly Tasks and Requirements

Part 1 of the consists of the following (Suggested roles of responsibility are indicated in parentheses):

• Listing of duties, timeline, tasks, and milestones (PM, ID, SME, GD, WD)
• Flowchart (PM, ID, SME, GD, WD)
  

Part 2

• Home page with corporate/school logo (SME, GD, WD)
• Published Flowchart to the Web site (SME, WD)
• FAQ’s with bookmarks/anchors (ID, SME, WD)
• Navigation links – creates ICON images (GD)
• Navigation links – verifies active (WD)
• Publish to server (WD)

• Create a rubric for Team Web Site Project evaluation and post it to the Team Web Site as a separate Web page (based on the top ten criteria for effective Web sites) (SME)
• Training calendar with links to the description of three possible training classes and registration form (PM, ID, SME, WD)
• Corporate/school policies (PM, SME, WD)
• Copyright policy that opens in a new window (pop-up window) (PM, SME, WD)
• Navigation links – creates ICON images (GD)
• Navigation links – verifies active (WD)
• Publish to server (WD)

• Online lesson - each learning team will create a 10-15-minute online self-paced training lesson to attain one performance-based objective. This lesson must be accompanied by visuals and an e-Assessment. You may refer back to the instructional plan developed in CUR 524, or you may develop a training plan to meet a present need. (ID, SME, GD, WD)
• Daily news that opens in a new window (pop-up window)(PM, SME, WD)
• Navigation links – create ICON images (MD)
• Navigation links – verifies active (WD)
• Publish to server (WD)

Each team will evaluate one other team’s Web site using the other team’s posted rubric. Each team member will complete the rubric, and the results summarized in a 350-700-word paper presented by the Project Manager of your team