Web Design and Technologies (4004-737)


Group Project 2: Final Presentations and Peer Evals (posted 16 February 2004)

The first half of the last week of class will be devoted to final group project presentations.

You should be ready to present a version of your site that has the full information architecture implemented, with content on the main page, any second-level (main topic) pages, and at least one set of third-level or below (specific content) pages implemented, as well.

My mother and son will be there for the presentations, as well. They’ll be looking at the sites from the end-user point of view, while I’ll be evaluating them for their architecture and their technology implementation.

I’m not going to provide a laundry list of technologies to implement on the site—your use of technology should be to facilitate the user experience, rather than to meet a set of arbitrary criteria. That said, effective and appropriate use of the technologies we cover in class—from client-side scripting to back-end scripts—is expected.

Your final project grade will be based on three components:

  • Design Document (10%)
  • Final Site and Presentation (40%)
  • Peer Evaluation (40%)

As you can see, the peer evaluation is a significant component of your final project grade, so if you haven’t been pulling your weight in the project up to this point, now would be a good time to step up to the plate and prove your worth to your groupmates. :)

Here are downloadable versions of the peer evaluation form. Please do not fill these out until week ten—you want to be sure to incorporate feedback for the whole project, including (especially) the down-to-the-wire crunch time.

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Prof. Lawley

Since our group had decided to use MT for our project site, we can't make a good use of the polaris account. Instead we are using my grace account for the project (including the group blog, site, and associated documentation). I would like to request my account's size to be increased. Could you help me get this done?

P.S. As an alternative we tried to have our group materials hosted on 1and1.com account. But apparently simulteneous login and running of the scripts by multiple authors made the site unaccessible.

Posted by: Fuyuko Takegawa on January 27, 2004 04:22 PM | Permalink to Comment

Errr, with all due respect, Fuyuko, I dont know what you mean by this being a group decision with regards to using MT for the site. I dont recall, nor does BAK recall, having been asked what we thought about what program to use!!! SO perhaps you may want to re-state what you just said to 4 members out of the group having made the decision, rather than the GROUP!!

MAtter of fact, I rarely get any of my comments responded to nor suggestions considered.

DOnt get me wrong, i am not complaining but if you all want to do the work without much of me or bak's help, then kindly reflect so when making statements to the professor by not allowing assumptions that we are involved when we are apppearly not allowed to be.

Thank you

With regards

Stephanie

Posted by: Stephanie R. Chester on February 2, 2004 07:06 AM | Permalink to Comment

Please disregard my previous email sent earlier this am! I was out of line....my apology.

Regards

Stephanie

Posted by: Stephanie on February 2, 2004 09:47 AM | Permalink to Comment

Professor Lawley,

What do we have to attribute in our work?

We understand that if we take a complete navigation system or similar segment of code from another site we must attribute it to the source. We're unsure about concepts? If we read about an idea and implemented it do we have to attribute that idea to somebody else? It gets difficult because nothing is really our own since we didn't create this technology. We're thinking about only attributing the one complete module of code we learned about in a tutorial. Is that sufficient?

Posted by: Vince Falbo on February 4, 2004 03:24 PM | Permalink to Comment

Couple of questions about the group project. Is the project supposed to be finished this Monday for the presentation, or are we just showing where we are with the project at that time? Will we have more time to work on it after Monday?

Second question: Should we put some kind of disclaimer on the site that this is a web design class project and not a real travel site for Japan? If someone is doing a search for information about travel in Japan, they could stumble upon our site. Another concern is the content and images we've gathered. We should credit all our sources and indicate that this site is only for educational purposes.

Posted by: Joe Carino on February 10, 2004 04:34 PM | Permalink to Comment

I will give you another week to work on the projects, but the presentation quality is important.

And yes, a disclaimer is an *excellent* idea.

Posted by: Liz Lawley on February 10, 2004 09:54 PM | Permalink to Comment

Prof. Lawley,

I am trying to submit the peer evaluation through myCourses. However, I cannot locate your inbox folder. I appreicate very much if you let me know when the folder becomes available.

Thank you.

Fuyuko

Posted by: Fuyuko Takegawa on February 18, 2004 04:39 AM | Permalink to Comment