November 11, 2010 Archives

Today I'd like you to announce your initial plan for a term project.

• What tool(s) will you use?
  
• What do you hope to accomplish? (Artistically? Technically? Personally?)
• How will your project help you to stretch your current skills?
• What do you foresee as the biggest obstacle you face?

Your final presentation should include a website optimized for the iPad, a video that includes clips from beta-testing, and blog entries that chronicle your progress.  (More details on those TBA.)

Scratch

• Screencast w/ audio of first-time volunteer using your Scratch project
• Updated project
• Screencast of you demonstrating changes in project

Inform 7

• Screencast w/ audio of first-time volunteer using your Inform 7 project
  (you can use someone who already knows interactive fiction)
  
• Updated project
• Screencast of you demonstrating changes in project

Web App

• if it's not technically possible to record a screencast from an iPad, document a volunteer's experience as best as you can. (Video camera pointed at screen? We'll figure something out.)
• Updated project
• Screencast of you demonstrating changes in project
• CSS for screen, iPad, mobile, and print.

Blogging

• A main page that operates as the center for this entire portfolio, perhaps with links to separate pages on each unit, perhaps all in one. 
• I recommend that you blog major milestones as you go, rather than wait until the last minute. (You are welcome to use class time to blog.)
  
• The organization is up to you, as are choices that you make about how much information you provide, how you use hyperlinks and linked text, and how to make it as easy as possible for a potential employer to view your accomplishments.