Archives for March 31, 2015

This is the post for the Friday, March 27, 2015 class meeting.

Today we finish the presentations for Project 3 and work on the reflection memo for the project. Project 3 is due by 11:55 PM today, Wednesday, 4/1. The grace period for Project 3 ends at 11:55 PM on Wednesday, 4/8.

Presentations for Today

These are the people and tools scheduled for today’s presentations.

10:10 Class

• 10:15 Nadia G on Meograph
• 10:20 Molly R on MindMup
• 10:25 Anna H on TimelineJS
• 10:30 Brigid P on Inklewriter
• 10:35: Sarah B on Digital Vaults

11:15 Class

• 11:20 Jackson S on Clyp.it
• 11:26 Lauren R on PlayFic
• 11:32 Lindsay D on MindMup

Write Your Project Reflection Memo and Submit Your Web Essay

Whether you turn in your project today or after the grace period, you still need to write this reflection memo to tell me about your project.

1. Go to the Assignments tab on the left menu in Scholar.
2. Choose P3: Interrogate the Interface.
3. Scroll down to the text box below the headings Submission and Assignment Text. You will write your reflection memo in this box. (Alternately, you can write in a word processor and copy/paste your text into this box.)
4. Add your memo headers (To, From, Subject, and Date). For your reflection memo, you’ll use the following:
   • Address your memo to me (Traci) and from you (use your name).
   • Add a subject line that indicates this is your reflection memo and which project it is for.
   • Add the current date.
5. Insert a horizontal divider line using the button indicated with the red arrow in the image below:
6. Introduce your project and tell me the following information:
   1. What is the link to first page of your web essay?
   2. What is the link to your presentation? (Use the embedding instructions to add the presentation to your site.)
   3. Talk about your goals for the web essay and the presentation. You can talk about the content, the layout and design, and any screenshots you included.
   4. Tell me anything else you want me to know about your project that you want me to know before I grade it.
   5. Add a concluding section that sums things up and tells me how well you think you met your goals.
7. Review and proofread the information in your memo.
8. Agree to the Honor Code by clicking the checkbox at the bottom of the page in Scholar. You cannot finish submitting the project without clicking that checkbox (and it’s easy to miss).
9. Submit your Project, and save a copy of the confirmation and submission ID. If something goes wrong in Scholar, you can contact 4HELP with that information.
10. You’ve finished the third project!

Schedule for the Week

On Friday, we will begin Project 4, which will focus on remixing an existing story (fiction or nonfiction). We will look at several examples in class and think about how we might use some of the tools from Project 3 to remix a story.