History of
RegionalCommissions
in Georgia
First 15/5
January 26, 2016
As the programmer for the Design Divas, the bulk of what I will be contributing to the group has not yet come into play as we are currently working on the Needs Assessment. Tracy and Nora completed the Needs Assessment and did such a great job with a few edits from other members that when I read through it, it was ready to go. Although I did not find anything in the Needs Assessment that appeared to need editting, it did help me to read it and try to get a better idea of what our goals are for this project. It was nice to find that in the reading for our Tuesday night class, there was a good bit of information reviewing Needs Assessment.
In anticipation of some heavy work weeks ahead with the construction of the Storyline module, I used most of my time in the past week to try to work ahead on lesson plans and grading for my own students so that I will not get too far behind when I begin work on the module.
Our group met a couple of times last week and has already established good communication protocol. We are on the right track.
Lana's 15/5's
A 15/5 is a short progress report. Taking about fifteen minutes to write and five minutes to read it keeps everyone up to date on the weekly going's on with the project. These reports will be written both for team progress and for individual progress. Check out the team members' pages for their individual 15/5 reports.
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Second 15/5
​February 2, 2016
At this point in the game, we are still in the initial stages of planning for our module. I know that the story boards are under construction and that means that it is almost my turn to make them into a storyline module. I am really excited about doing this and am realizing how much I enjoy working with Storyline and the problem-solving that goes into creating this type of product. As a team, we are working on the Task Analysis document and will be meeting on Wednesday after class to discuss it.
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Third 15/5
February 9, 2016
Last week, we were able to get some valuable feedback about the Needs Assessment in a meeting with Dr. Clinton. It really helped to clarify our goals and the direction that we need to go in. As the programmer, it really gave me some ideas about how to liven up our material by perhaps using a choose your own adventure style in the Storyline Module. Fortunately, I have done something similar in the past and hopefully will be able to tweak that template to create something that is appropriate for this particular project. The interaction that I previously created was a multiple choice/drag and drop feature and it appears that this will work nicely with the testing strategy that is listed in our task analysis. Nora and Tracy also worked on the Task Analysis and we all signed off on that after looking it over and making very minor revisions.
Although we are not yet at the point where I am putting the content into a Storyline Module, doing the design challenge about different methods for zooming was really good practice since it has been a couple of months now since we turned in our last assignment using Storyline. I am looking forward to working with that program again.
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Fourth 15/5
February 16, 2016
This week I was able to start working in Storyline. I was responsible for the Screen Design Specifications Document since I am the programmer/graphic artist for the group. I used the templates that were provided by the client to choose colors for the module. This was actually the first time I realized that I could pick out the exact hue according to the RGB colors within Storyline since I have always just used the eyedropper tool in the past. I also began looking at fonts that would be appropriate for this module. Since the template the client provided was mostly screenshots, I was not sure if they had any preference until I found one slide that used Calibri and I remembered learning in a previous class that Calibri pairs well with Cambria for the titles.
In addition to using the template to establish the color scheme, I also began working on a table of contents inspired by the images that the client provided. This was fun because I was able to use hotspots and state changes. Since we do not yet have storyboards completed, I tried to make templates for different types of slides we may need, although I am sure those will need to be tweaked and expanded in the future. I imported some previous interactions from another module to set up an initial choose your own response type of slide along with positive and corrective feedback. It feels good to finally be making some progress. Even if a lot of it needs to be changed in the future, I at least feel that there is now something to work with.
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Fifth 15/5​
February 23, 2016
This week our main focus was on reviewing and proofreading all the documents that we are combining for the March 2nd due date. I was particularly interested in what Cheri had put together for the storyboards and flowcharts, which are what I will use to create the module when it is finalized. Since she is using powerpoint, it should be a rather seamless and easy transition to upload the content to Storyline. I really appreciated the time and organization that she put into the flowchart which is helping me to be able to visualize how the module will play out.
Tracy also got approval from the client on my recommendation of using Cambria for the titles and Calibri for the supporting text. I made this recommendation based on the fact that the client had some Calibri font in the template PPT that they provided us with and the example that Dr. Orey gave us last semester in class that said that Cambria pairs nicely with Calibri because the titles will be serif while the rest of the text will be sans serif.
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Sixth 15/5​
March 1, 2016
This week Cheri worked on the storyboard and flowcharts and ended up completing them. This means it is my turn to take those and translate them for the Storyline module. I have begun this process, but I look forward to this coming weekend when I will really be able to dig in my heels and make some progress. There was some discussion about incorporating some more interesting elements into the module, so I am planning to start out by doing the module exactly as it is presented in the storyboard and flow charts, and then add other elements where it appears to be appropriate.
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Seventh 15/5​
March 8, 2016
This past week I was able to begin uploading the content from the storyboards into Storyline. Due to Cheri's excellent organization both in the storyboard and flow chart, it was rather simple to understand what needed to go where. Although I ran into a few bumps and sticks in the road, I was able to meet my goal of at least getting through part one of the module. I hope to get through the majority of the rest of the module this coming weekend so that we can begin tweaking it and adding some content where appropriate.
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Eighth 15/5​
March 15, 2016
This past week my goal was to at least get content uploaded to the Storyline module for each slide from the storyboards. After about 7 hours of work, I achieved that goal and also began working on the drag and drop interaction with the map. Although I was not able to finish (as that slide is going to take a while) I am satisfied that I figured out a way to accomplish the desired state changes that will be necessary to give the users the appropriate feedback. Now I know that the desired interaction is possible and all that stands between me and completing it is time. My goal for next weekend is to document what each slide needs and start going through the module and crossing off the needed changes one by one.
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Ninth 15/5​
March 22, 2016
This week I was once again busy at work on the Storyline module for the Design Divas. My goal was to upload and format all of the assessment slides and also to read through the desk crits and heed some of the advice from our classmates. Megan worked some more scenario types of questions into the assessment questions that she sent me and I am very pleased with the current level of interactivity that the module now showcases.
Now all that is left to do next weekend is to clean up a few slides and it will be complete and only lacking the audio portion. Considering that our original timeline does not even have this part of the development of the project even starting until 3-18, I am very confident about the progress we are making and thankful that Cheri was able to knock out the storyboards so quickly and allow me to get an early start.
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Tenth 15/5​
March 29, 2016
None submitted.
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Eleventh 15/5​
April 4, 2016
This week I was able to upload most of the audio for our project. There was some discussion about changes that needed to happen on some of the slides, so I edited those and the corresponding assessment slide. Nora made some great suggestions about splitting up the audio on several of the slides to avoid cognitive overload, and those worked great and will be much more user friendly.
I was also finally able to figure out a good way to present the information for the pie chart slide by using hotspots and the hover trigger and am very pleased with the appearance and functionality.
At this point, the only work left to do on this module is upload the last few audio components, the transcript in the player and make sure it is all ADA compliant.
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Twelfth 15/5​
April 11, 2016
This week the main focus of the development with our module was finishing the uploading of the audio clips. Additionally, I added the alternative text to the images in the module that Tracy specified and sent to me. As per suggestion by our expert reviewer, I also added a button to the first slide of the module so that the user could control the start of the lesson. There were also several slides that had multiple audio clips that when clicked at the same time overlapped. I set up some triggers to minimize that. On one of the slides, I animated bullet points to coincide with the audio track. Since we were not using the resources tab, I removed it. Additionally, all of the slide titles to the individual sections were changed along with the text on the screens according to more input from the expert reviewer.
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Thirteenth 15/5​
April 18, 2016
The focus for this week was getting responses from reviewers, prioritizing them based on needs and feasibility, and making final revisions to the module. This can be challenging to prioritize when the feedback from one reviewer contradicts that from another, but it was helpful that the team, led by Megan categorized the necessary modifications and shared the document with me and this is what I have been working from this weekend. I also had a helpful list from Nora about some issues that needed to be resolved from the last iteration of the module. This also helped me to find some necessary revisions.
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Fourteenth 15/5​
April 23, 2016
This week the focus was on putting the final touches on the module. This included adding the pdf of the transcript to the resources tab. There was also an additional slide added to the end of the module with copyright information.
Additionally, the transcript and audio had to be updated for slide #37. Some of the audio in the module needed to be uploaded again.