Chapter 12 & Chapter 15

Chapter 12
I really like the fact that this chapter broke down the Preproduction process, because like some of us, we need a little bit of help to be organized. The five tips are: Research the topic; create a master list of articles on the topic; divide articles into categories; identify and locate images; finalize the navigation and interface. Many of us underestimate the challenge of writing and developing an interactive media website and many other things. Because this case study is focused on the Harlem Renaissance, it is important to create a navigation that is in chronological order and to have a hierarchy.

Chapter 15
This chapter brings back many memories as I am a Certified Nursing Assistant. I was taken back by the many types of e-learning. I guess I didn't really know about these. I think it was kind of funny that the writer, Fred Bauer suggested that humor be included in the overall design because it can be effective. The case studies help us relate these issues and topics to our lives and what we know.

Chapters 12 & 15

I especially like the chapter on the Harlem Renaissance and the ways that Brittanica online had focus topics alongside broader ones. It was also cool how the website created a database of different essays, audio, and videos of a particual person or topic. I like how on the Harlem Renaissance site, users could click on anything from an image to a text hyperlink and find out more about the time period. Both chapters were very clear and interesting.

Chapters 13 & 14

Chapter 13 was very insightful! I really like how the "Script Animation Page" was laid out because without that I think I would have gotten lost if they had tried explaining it. Plus I think that this will help when we have to do a story board and script animation page. There are a lot of good examples but not really great examples.

Chapter 14 could have been a lot more helpful to us before we had submitted our proposals because I think that the example of the proposal for the shipbuilding company breaks it down to a different level plus gives us another insight of a different company. I just don't want to deal with budgets or project schedules. I really like looking at the final script, I am looking forward to doing one later in the semester.

Chapters 13 and 14

Since Chapters 13 and 14 were just case studies, we didn't really learn anything new. So, they were kind of boring and I admit I just skimmed through them. It was useful to see all the hard work that goes into making a program. And I do love museum kiosks with all my heart so I liked seeing how those are made and what you need to think about when designing a kiosk for a museum. It seems like with all the different choices that a museum visitor could make it would be very hard to write the script for that and implement that program.

Chapter 13 &14

Chapter 13 and 14 were interesting because they really didn't present any new information, but rather showed us how all of what we've learned so far applies in real world applications. The chapters discuss two major programs: a mathmatical statistics program, and an instructional simulator that allows viewers to create ships and complete certain missions. The chapters show readers how much actually goes into a well designed product and the different layers necessary in the design process for a complete and successful product. The chapter helped me visualize what a large job would consists of, but seemed more like a recap of previous chapters.

Chapters 10 & 11

I'm with lia, all the talk about tags and stuff is kinda making my head spin. There are so many new words we're learning it almost seems like a different language sometimes. It's kinda hard to keep track of all the meanings, but i suppose it only gets better with practice. The biggest thing i got out of all these chapters was how our sites and programs must be designed not specifically for the products offered so that the user should pick which content he wants or what he/she's going to do, but rather designed for the user and is taylored to his/her specific needs. This system is obviously more difficult to compose, but because of it's specificity it also has the potential of reaching the viewers most likely to become potential customers.

Chapters 10 and 11

I don't really see a difference between a proposal and the design outline, but I guess I should since I'm supposed to have that ready for today. The section on writing the website was useful though. I guess I didn't really think that you needed to go into that much detail though. Although, I guess that an employer would want to be able to visualize exactly what they are going to get before they start paying you for doing it. I think everything we are learning is starting to all blend together in my mind and I'm not really getting anything. So . . . hopefully things clear up in class today!

Chapters 10 & 11

Chapter 10 confused me when it discussed meta tags and alt tags. Maybe we can discuss it some more in class? It takes my brain time to wrap around technical jargon.

Chapter 11 interested me the most when it discussed how to make websites more user centric than content centric. Allowing visitors to cusomize their own webpages on the site is pretty cool. Keeping the audience in mind while creating the website is the biggest things I got out of this chapter.

Chapter 5

Chapter five, just like many of the other chapters that proceed it, explains how multimedia has so many different facets that without a good description, or work plan, it is near impossible to construct an effective web page, game, etc. I also didn't realize that there were differences between flowcharts and outlines. I considrered them to be basically the same thing, but, there are differences, and chapter five explores that. I think as we read the differences between all these terms will become more apparent.

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Chapter 5

Most of the time these days, I just start writing!! Probably not the best habit to have. Having an outline is the foundation upon which you would build your story for a story board. Treatments are new to me. I still don't think I quite understand what they are. I have never heard of them before so it was interesting to learn a little bit about them. For example, using the third person and writing visually, using descriptions. I am excited to create a storyboard for one of my projects this semester.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 was interesting because it showed me the next step necessary to create a website. It also cements in my mind the need for substantial planning when creating different web projects. Scripting seems pretty straightforward to me, as well as the flowcharting and outlines. Chapter 5 differentiated flowcharting and outlines for me b/c for a while, it was hard for me to tell the difference. Flowcharts seem to be used to spatially show how a project is set up, and outlines are more detail-oriented, I think.

Chapter Five

I think this was a useful chapter, because it is important that as a writer we are able to effectively communicate our ideas for websites or other interactive media so that others can visual our ideas. I think it is important to be familiar with the different formats for scripts and proposals so that we will be able to work with all of them. It is useful to have examples of all these in our book. However, it's most important whatever format that you use that is is simple and self-explanatory.