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TC 310 The Computer in Technical Communication. Dr. Jennifer Turns Week 4, Day 1 (10/21). TC 310 – Student Feedback 1. Debriefing 1: PowerPoint presentations and posters Unpacking design decisions/professional activities What did you learn from debriefing 1,?
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TC 310 The Computer in Technical Communication Dr. Jennifer Turns Week 4, Day 1 (10/21)
TC 310 – Student Feedback 1 • Debriefing 1: • PowerPoint presentations and posters • Unpacking design decisions/professional activities • What did you learn from debriefing 1,? • Other people’s strategies (2) • Ways to adapt presentation to audience (2) • Different features of PowerPoint • Creative ways to design with PowerPoint • Professional choices are not cut and dried • How to brand items • How to talk about professional activity Note: Bullets represent one response, unless otherwise noted in parentheses at the end of the response
TC 310 – Student Feedback 2 • Debriefing 2: • Formatting and editing solutions • Choosing alternatives via professional opinion and user test • What did you learn from debriefing 2? • Nice to see what others did (2) • Different strategies for editing/formatting (2) • No one right/wrong answer • Basic principles for designing all documents (accessibility, comprehensibility) • How to measure the effectiveness of a product • Trouble shooting (particularly by group, team, class) Note: Bullets represent one response, unless otherwise noted in parentheses at the end of the response
TC 310 – Student Feedback 3 • What’s going well? • Learning new programs (5) • Assignments reasonable, pace of assignments (4) • Sharing of peer work (2) • Group functioning well (2) • Instructor keeps it interesting (2) • Enjoy subject matter Note: Bullets represent one response, unless otherwise noted in parentheses at the end of the response
TC 310 – Student Feedback 4 • What’s could be going better? • Expectations for assignment, confusion about grading (3) • Concern about personal level of expertise (2)(e.g., assignments not up to par, idea of novice and expert versions of assignment) • Developing professional activity statement • Would like to see examples from the past • Working with partner in lab is stressful • Attention span because of length of class • Class participation • Finding time to redo projects Note: Bullets represent one response, unless otherwise noted in parentheses at the end of the response
By the end of class, students should be able to: Identify lessons acquired from Photoshop assignment Describe assignment 4, including the concept of a sitemap Use Visio to construct a variety of diagrams What we’ll do… Debrief from assignment 3 - Photoshop Discuss assignment 4 - Visio Introduce/explore Visio Day 7
Debriefing, part 1 – Assignment 3 Open sharing • Each team puts all storyboards on one computer • Students rotate through room exploring solutions This us an opportunity to • See other potential solutions • Learn technology tricks • Hear about design strategies • Gain feedback from peers • Recognize/identify features of effective solutions • Get to know your colleagues
Debriefing, part 2 – Assignment 3 • Setting context – Website design theme • Asgn 3: Storyboards (visual design) • Asgn 4: Sitemap (information structure) • Asgn 5: Design one page • Asgn 6: Design a multiple page website • Professional portfolio: Multiple page website • Skills for website design • Technical skills - Photoshop, Visio, Dreamweaver, HTML • Conceptual knowledge • Creating effective content • Graphic/visual design • Information design
Debriefing, part 2 – Assignment 3 • Setting context – Website design theme • Asgn 3: Storyboards (visual design) • Asgn 4: Sitemap (information structure) • Asgn 5: Design one page • Asgn 6: Design a multiple page website • Professional portfolio: Multiple page website • Skills for website design • Technical skills - Photoshop, Visio, Dreamweaver, HTML • Conceptual knowledge • Creating effective content • Graphic/visual design • Information design Heuristic Evaluation
Debriefing, part 2 – Assignment 3 • Process • Teams partner • Team A, Team B • Evaluation using heuristic evaluation worksheet • Team A evaluates storyboards for Team B • Team B evaluates storyboards for Team A • Closure • Teams identify best practices based on analysis • Teams exchange feedback forms
Visio • Visio supports development of diagrams • Visio supports development of oodles of diagrams • Standard diagrams – block diagram • Formal diagrams – Gantt chart, entity relationship • Other diagrammatic representations – maps, office layouts Important functions • Visio uses “vector graphics” (smaller files, not pixel based) • Connectors are actually linked to objects
Due Dates Assignment 4 Monday (4/21) By class Includes: Solution Key Features Design Rationale Learning Reflection Next Class – More on site maps Also Background on Design Group Editing in Word Survey results Photoshop work Scanning! Looking Ahead