1. Term Project Evaluations Guiding Principles Summary
Lecture 15
Short Course Review
Term Project Evaluations
Guiding Principles
Summary

2. Play it Safe Play for More Course Scope? Comfort Sophistication
HTML Basic Coding
Basic Text & Images Web Pages
Images & Narration
More Theory
Play for More
Meaningful Term Project
Early Exposure to Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
Progressive Increase in Skill & Comfort Level
Create complex animations
No Pain, No Gain

3. Course Challenge Comfort Wait! Reward is Close. ANXIETY Frustration
Sophistication
Wait! Reward is Close.
ANXIETY Frustration

4. Course Reward Comfort Beginning of Sense of What is POSSIBLE
Interactive Multimedia Website that
Communicates
Comfort
Sophistication
Beginning of Sense of What is POSSIBLE

5. Mechanics – Goals  Evaluation Criteria
Mechanics - technical competency in web and multimedia design:
Navigation
Easy to find your way? Consistent Primary Navigation? Site ID? Page name?
Layout
Clear, instant Visual Hierarchy? Pages easy to understand? "Look & feel" enticing?
Typography
Text easy to read? Designed for scanning?
Visuals
Graphics easy to understand? Image Layouts tell a story? Animations are well constructed? tell a story?
Interactivity
Use of interactive elements - links, rollovers, image maps? Interactive elements easy to understand and effective?

6. Meaning – Goals  Evaluation Criteria
Meaning - concise presentation of content and effective use of multimedia:
Clarity
Content easy to understand?
Conciseness
Content presented in a concise form? Enough information but not too much?
Relevance
Content informative? Relevant? Insightful?
Creativity
Creative Use of text, images, multimedia & interactivity?
Creative Approach to answering the question: "Why be a Librarian in the 21st Century?"

7. Evaluation of Term Projects
Will upload page Tuesday 8am
Evaluation
Please discuss and provide constructive feedback in the Threaded Discussion devoted to the Term Project.
Decided not to use the Evaluation Interface this semester, where you could provide anonymous feedback – the Threaded Discussion offers a free form format for evaluating the Term Projects.
Enjoy

8. Simple Less is More Easy Navigation Tell a Story Be Creative
Guiding Principles
Simple
“Don't make me think!” – “Don’t force the user to think”
Less is More
Cut text is half
Easy Navigation
Where am I?
How do I get to …?
Tell a Story
Be Creative

9. "Why be a Librarian in the 21st Century?"
Summary
"Why be a Librarian in the 21st Century?"
Communicate Your Vision
Share Your Passions
Create Cool Website
Calling Card
Learn New Skills & Vocabulary
Learn MECHANICS
To use Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash
Create MEANING