Week 14 Update

This past week, our group accomplished a lot. With our level two flowchart finished, we were able to start working through level three. We spent a lot of time this past weekend getting two of the different math concepts (money and time) completed. We were able to work through both of them and begin to see patterns between the different pages, which made our work go a little smoother and quicker. After finishing 2 of the 5 areas, we broke and decide the split up the rest of the work. Patrick took the responsibility of finishing the other three areas (measurement, fractions, and probability). Angela was responsible for getting a final draft of the critique ready to hand in and produce a screen layout to paste into our level three pages. Ryan was responsible for finishing any of the scripts that would be needed and be ready to label them in reference to what is written on our level three. We are seeing an end in sight to all our hard work this semester. We have another week and a few days to finish everything up and get it in our binder.

Health Status: We are feeling good. We are in the homestretch of completing our binder and got a lot of the work out of the way this past weekend.

Week 13 Update

In the past week, we finally finished and updated our level 2 flow chart. From there, we took our level 3 template and began to set up the pages with the navigation IDs and page titles. This will make it easy for us to find our place on the level 2 flow chart when going back and forth between the two levels. We took one chunk of the level 2 flow chart and created 37 different level 3 slides in PowerPoint, using one file. This made it easy for use to see the number of slides we will need in each section. The next step was to copy that file, with all of the navigation IDs and page titles, and change them to reflect our next section. Since all five of our sections are consistent with each other, the task of creating the slides was fairly easy. We also began writing scripts for the different testimonials and advanced organizers that we are going to use. Again, because each section is very similar to each other, except for content, our script writing went very smoothly. Our next step is to create the rest of the level 3 templates and start filling in the rest of the needed information over the weekend. Here is the template that we will be using for level 3:


Health Status: We have a lot of templates to fill out and at this point is seems very overwhelming. I think that we have a good plan on how to accomplish this, and hopefully it will go very smoothly. Since most of our scripts are written, we feel comfortable with the work we are doing.

Week 12 Update

This week we continued planning. We met with Dr. Abed to look over our level two and take suggestions and comments to incorporate into our design. We were able to map out a flow that would be beneficial to the viewer. This would help them navigate in a way that they had some control our viewing the content, but at the same have to view each topic in order. We came up with a way to incorporate a password in our flow chart that would block students from not going in the order we wanted them to. Another piece that we changed in our level two flow chart was the process of obtaining the password to move onto the next topic. Instead of having the choice of scenarios to choose, they would be required to complete the first one, followed by the second one, and then come to a screen to wrap up the content and congratulate them with a password.
Our logo has been completed and has been placed in our level 3 template. Today the level two flow chart will be updated to reflect our changes and coded in a way that we are able to match up the level 3 with the level two. When we meet later this week we will begin to create files for level 3 and start to place our information. We have some scripts for our videos that we will be using and are ready to start putting our binder together.

Health Status: We are anxious and nervous about going into level 3. We see a lot of different elements that need to be placed, but at the same time see things that certain pages will have in common. We have a big task ahead of us.

Here is our company logo that will be used on our level 3 template: