I have to admit... I struggled with the idea of a storyboard for my website. To me, a storyboard is very linear and a website is not. I see a website as having something more like a tree structure. Also, when I am creating, I have a general outline in my head from which I work everything else out through experimentation. I find the idea of a storyboard for creating a website to be very confining. So, after talking it over with our professor, I decided to do something more like an org chart. I started to create it in Google Docs, but then I realized that the structure I was seeing in my head would be easier to create and edit in a spreadsheet, so I switched it over. I understand that the idea of the first half of this assignment was to create a visual representation of our project. However, my visualization of my completed website is not in terms of pictures, but rather structural organization. My brain is very much like a PC, as opposed to a Mac, so the structure looks something like what you would see if you went to a website's "site map". Here is my rough draft, which will be modified as I work through the project:
As for the video portion of this assignment, I was confused. I couldn't get past the word "text" in the instructions. I feel as though I may have missed something in the reading. Admittedly, I did go through the reading rather quickly so that I could get to creating the video as soon as possible. I was worried that I would not have enough time to finish it. So, I'm not sure that this is what our professor had in mind, but it was a useful activity nonetheless. I used Kizoa, which made it easy to create, but not so easy to download. In order to download it, I would have to pay for the service, which I found out after the fact through a pop-up message. So, I chose to export it to YouTube. That's when I received a pop-up message telling me that I would receive and e-mail message when my video was ready. After waiting rather impatiently for quite some time, I decided to choose another option, the best of which was a link. Here is what I came up with:
http://www.kizoa.com/Video-Maker/d25625037k4564864o1l1/mission-statement
Did I interpret the instructions correctly, or did I miss something?
Maria, I liked out you grouped your MMP topics into three categories. I can envision three separate tabs/pages for each of these purposes. My only concern is that you have given yourself quite a lot of work to do! Maybe over time, even after the course is complete you can continue to add to your page and build it up. Do you plan to create Google Groups or are you going to find existing groups for students to join?
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