As we discussed in class, students who received a B+ or lower on the midterm can complete this optional assignment to raise their grade up to two steps (e.g., C to B-, or B- to B+).
Description
The assignment is to create two separate guides to adding posts on your blog, one for each type of post (i.e., a guide to adding terms and a guide to adding news articles). This does not have to be written in essay form. You can write this as a set (or two sets) of step-by-step instructions, numbering each step or using a combination of short paragraphs and bullet points.
The important thing for you to accomplish in this assignment is to give someone enough information to add content to your site, format it correctly, and label it properly. You DO NOT need to give instructions for how to log in to Blogger. From the technical standpoint, you can begin with the instruction to create a new post, assuming basic knowledge of logging in.
For each guide you should, however, explain briefly how to find the appropriate type of content to post. Give a brief explanation of the sort of terms you post, or what topics and/or sources for articles you usually use (for example, "Perform a Google search for the phrase 'information design news' and ..." or "Go the New York Times Technology section and ...").
Make sure you cover how text should be formatted, how posts should be titled, what labels should be applied, how dates should be handled, whether images should be included (if so, then where, what size, and what format?). The more of this sort of information you clearly convey, the better.
Submission Guidelines:
For this assignment, please submit a typed, double-spaced hard copy only. No electronic submission for this assignment.
Please be sure that your name and date are included on the hard copy.
Due Date:
6 p.m., Wednesday, May 13 (You are welcome and encouraged to submit this assignment earlier. Wednesday, May 13, will be the last day it is accepted.)
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Team Right
This is the list created by Team Right, which consisted of:
- Wen
- Dalal
- Clifton
- Sam
- Taka
- Grace
Who is target audience?
What are we offering?
How are we offering content?
Why did you choose the blog title and URL?
Why did you choose your layout?
Should the blog title and URL be the same?
Should they be easily memorable?
Are they memorable?
How are they spelled?
How should the blog be laid out?
How does the headline connect with your target audience?
How does it relate to your content?
Should your gadgets be on the left or right side?
What font should you choose and why?
What size are your fonts sizes?
What font colors should you choose?
Should you change the colors of you predetermined layout and if so, why?
What gadgets should you choose?
Should you create your blog using HTML or the readymade layouts?
Should you add a labeling gadget to your page?
How should you design your archive (date?)
What labels should you choose?
How detailed should the labeling terminology be?
Should your blog be personalized?
Should take advantage ability to use ad space on your blog?
Should your link and label colors be attractive?
Why did you choose that specific color?
Do you want to create your own header/title?
What color should it be?
Should it stand out or be related to the rest of your layout?
Should your post titles be specific to your content?
Should you use color to create importance?
Is your blog content heavy/specific?
Should your color hierarchy reflect this?
Should visited links have a separate color?
Should you use different fonts for your overall layout?
Do you want a blog archive?
How do you want other people to feel about your blog?
Would you change anything if you suddenly had a large about of followers?
Should you have a list of followers on your blog?
Should you use video and or images on your blog?
Do you want feedback on your blog?
Have you taken different monitor sizes and browser windows into account?
Do you want subscribers to your blog and if so, do you want to display that?
Do you want RSS feed on your blog?
Should you label?
Team Left
Here is the list produced on March 25 by Team Left, which consisted of:
1- URL - what's my url? is it remarkable? is it related to my content? is the URL the same as my Blog title?
2- Blog title - is it appropriate? does it define the blog purpose?
3- Colors scheme: What kind of feelings/impression are you trying to convey?
4- Fonts: is the content the right size? readable?
5- Layout / template: -which template should we pick?
6- background: - Is the background helping to convey the design mood?
7- Labels - Should I use labels? if yes, How should I label them?
8- images: Should I use images? are the appropriate to the content? Should I mention credits?
9- subtitles / headers: should they be different from the body style? Should they be consistent? Should I use the same title of the article?
10 links: Should I add links to the articles? should I mention the entire URL?
11- Banner Choices: Should I keep the same banner? Should I include a banner in my blog?
12- Usability: What do you mean by usability? is user friendly?
14-Interaction: Can people comments?
15- right Context: Is the context related to the theme?
16- right Content: is the information related to the theme?
17- source: Should I give credits to the
18- Define unknown terms
19- target audience
20- mission
21- Personal Information
22- Copy rights
23- Consistency
24- Credits
25- Index
26- Post dates
27- Meta-tag
28- How many post per page
- Lana
- Eduardo
- Jimmy
- Karolina
- Kin
- Oscar
- Kenson
1- URL - what's my url? is it remarkable? is it related to my content? is the URL the same as my Blog title?
2- Blog title - is it appropriate? does it define the blog purpose?
3- Colors scheme: What kind of feelings/impression are you trying to convey?
4- Fonts: is the content the right size? readable?
5- Layout / template: -which template should we pick?
6- background: - Is the background helping to convey the design mood?
7- Labels - Should I use labels? if yes, How should I label them?
8- images: Should I use images? are the appropriate to the content? Should I mention credits?
9- subtitles / headers: should they be different from the body style? Should they be consistent? Should I use the same title of the article?
10 links: Should I add links to the articles? should I mention the entire URL?
11- Banner Choices: Should I keep the same banner? Should I include a banner in my blog?
12- Usability: What do you mean by usability? is user friendly?
14-Interaction: Can people comments?
15- right Context: Is the context related to the theme?
16- right Content: is the information related to the theme?
17- source: Should I give credits to the
18- Define unknown terms
19- target audience
20- mission
21- Personal Information
22- Copy rights
23- Consistency
24- Credits
25- Index
26- Post dates
27- Meta-tag
28- How many post per page
Friday, March 6, 2009
Midterm (Terms Due March 10; Exam on March 11)
Midterm
As we discussed last Wednesday, your midterm will have two parts.
Part 1
The first part will require you to define eight terms without using the computer for reference (no Google!). You choose the terms from those you've been collecting for your blog.
Please send the eight terms you select with their definitions in the body of an email by 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10 (the day before class). I do not want this list sent as an attachment (if you've already sent it by the time you receive these instructions, I'll make an exception).
After giving this some thought, I've decided to distribute the terms to you as an exam on paper. On Wednesday, you'll each receive a final exam specifically created for you. I'll ask you to write the definitions out by hand, so please bring a pen and a sheet or two of paper to class.
Part 2
For the second part of your exam, I'd like you to write about the blog that you've created. I'd like you to begin with a general statement about the mission of the blog and the audiences (users) that you expect it to serve. I then want you to discuss every decision that you made, from selecting a title to choosing font sizes.
Tell me how and why each decision you've made fits with your understanding of how your target users will interact with the content on your blog. You should pay particular attention to the way you've labeled information on your site and think about how this enables users to find what they're looking for.
Remember that there is more than one way to be right -- you don't have to make the site fit one particular idea of what it should be. You do have to explain how your choices are consistent with what you expect the site to accomplish.
You may begin writing this part of your midterm now. If you'd like to complete Part 2 before entering class, you are welcome to do that. You will be given time in class, however, to complete this part of the midterm.
You are also free to make changes to your blog between now and Wednesday, but after Wednesday, you'll be expected to leave the formatting intact until your midterms have been returned. Good luck!
As we discussed last Wednesday, your midterm will have two parts.
Part 1
The first part will require you to define eight terms without using the computer for reference (no Google!). You choose the terms from those you've been collecting for your blog.
Please send the eight terms you select with their definitions in the body of an email by 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10 (the day before class). I do not want this list sent as an attachment (if you've already sent it by the time you receive these instructions, I'll make an exception).
After giving this some thought, I've decided to distribute the terms to you as an exam on paper. On Wednesday, you'll each receive a final exam specifically created for you. I'll ask you to write the definitions out by hand, so please bring a pen and a sheet or two of paper to class.
Part 2
For the second part of your exam, I'd like you to write about the blog that you've created. I'd like you to begin with a general statement about the mission of the blog and the audiences (users) that you expect it to serve. I then want you to discuss every decision that you made, from selecting a title to choosing font sizes.
Tell me how and why each decision you've made fits with your understanding of how your target users will interact with the content on your blog. You should pay particular attention to the way you've labeled information on your site and think about how this enables users to find what they're looking for.
Remember that there is more than one way to be right -- you don't have to make the site fit one particular idea of what it should be. You do have to explain how your choices are consistent with what you expect the site to accomplish.
You may begin writing this part of your midterm now. If you'd like to complete Part 2 before entering class, you are welcome to do that. You will be given time in class, however, to complete this part of the midterm.
You are also free to make changes to your blog between now and Wednesday, but after Wednesday, you'll be expected to leave the formatting intact until your midterms have been returned. Good luck!
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