Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Daily Message Nov. 17

Good Day,
As you are all aware, your group-written Instructions Analysis is due by 11:59 pm. Friday.  In addition, each team needs to submit a single reflection for the entire group OR each member of your team must submit an individually-written. Make sure there is crystal clear understanding on your team about how you're doing the reflection. Grade penalties come into play if everyone on your team doesn't follow the same game plan

If you have a team that has had difficulties with this project owing to lack of contribution from a team member, please address that in your reflection. While this is a team-based assignment, grades will be assessed individually. In your reflection, please do your best to honestly assess the contributions/roles played by each member of your team. You cannot receive full credit if you do not participate fully in the planning, drafting, revising, and editing of this report.
Your team should be well down the road to pulling together, revising, and polishing up the final draft. If you have not already received section drafts from every person in the group and assembled them into a draft, then you are quite far behind.  If you have been remiss to this point, you better get a move on. 

You'll have to do more than just paste your individual drafts together. Revising and editing will take some hard work. The report should sound like it comes from one voice, one perspective.  This is not easy, so you’ll need to address language and tone throughout AFTER you have agreed on the higher-order concerns.

Module 8

As things are winding down on Module 7, they'll be ramping up on the Web Site Analysis for Module 8.  The most important feature of this assignment is the set of criteria that you use to evaluate the web site.  

Be sure to take your time developing a strong set of criteria.  In your report, you will want to define each criterion and justify its use.  Let me repeat that: Define each criterion and justify its use.  Do I need to say it again?  If you don’t have a strong set of criteria for analyzing web sites, then this project will suffer.   

At this point in the semester, you have done all of the reading and understand page and visual design.  You need to show your understanding by articulating criteria necessary for evaluating texts.  A web site is just your vehicle.  Once again, the web site you choose really doesn’t matter, your discussion and use of criteria for evaluating the web site is the key to success on this project.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

Have a great day!
Julie

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