This week was a very busy week for me, with the inclusion of 3 other projects going on simultaneously.  Unfortunately, our group turned in our User Documentation and Multimedia Presentation drafts slightly later than the Wednesday Midnight deadline, but we did get the job done.  I was able to meet with Stephanie Thursday morning to go over the slides in person and add some more slides to the end to wrap it up.  We also made a few revisions here and there to make it complete.  Stephanie had an issue with the videos, which I am still not too sure is resolved.  After downloading the presentation off the websites, the videos still did not work properly in the slideshow, so this may be something we need to work on before submitting our final presentation next week.  All in all, our group should be on track to finishing this project on time.

The GDS Usability Report is attached.  Any comments and feedback would be helpful!

For this week, I submitted my final version of my Individual Usability Study.  I had not recieved feedback on my draft, so I did my best to edit the current questions I had already, as well as add new questions.  I went ahead and removed my own personal ratings and comments for these questions.  Next, the reading response along with the readings helped my understanding of Adobe Captivate.  It is highly likely that our group will use this program for our Multimedia Presentation.  I also went ahead and peer reviewed/commented on Stephanie's Individual Usability Study.  The two of us are getting ready to meet in order to compile all our individual ones into the Usability Report due today at midnight.

I did not recieve any feedback for my draft, so I added a few more questions and tweaked some of the existing ones, as well as the intros.  I also deleted my own personal answers.  Please feel free to make comments and suggestions.  Thanks!

For this week, we had a good head start since we had already finalized our client of Supplemental Instruction. I ended up writing the initial draft of the group proposal on Monday night before it was due, and posted it on Google Docs (ironic?) for the other group members to revise. Steph ended up being the one to post our final version of the draft of our group proposal. Also this week, I posted my draft of my individual usability study/test. Unfortunately I have not recieved any feedback for this yet. I did go ahead and make a comment each for both the Group proposal and an individual usability study draft. We will need to resubmit our Group Proposal with the revisions made from the comments as a "story" content type later tonight. It looks like next week is well packed, and we will need to get a start on the things due Monday this weekend.

Attached is my draft of the Individual Usability Study for Google Docs.  Please feel free to make comments and recommendations on how this may be improved as well as other questions that I should add.  Feel free to let me know if there are any questions, Thanks!

This week, we were finally put into groups for the third project of a client-based service-learning project. Initial contact was a little rough, where by the time of our first chat with Kevin, there were only three of us which had made contact with each other through email. We went ahead and did a chat with Kevin at 11:30am on Wednesday and got a lot of our questions answered. Our group has gone ahead and decided to use Google Docs as our main application. Our client will be Supplemental Instruction (SI) which was a tutoring program on campus. The keyword is 'was' due to the fact that it no longer exists, but is being revived. We are hoping that with the help of our group and Google Docs, we can give SI another stepping stone into full functionality again.

Between the three of us, we will need to first take in comments and suggestions into consideration and integrate them into our current draft. Unfortunately, for our most recent post of our finalized draft for the illustrated instructions and usability test, we did not recieve and reviews or comments. We are still hoping that a group would be willing to do that for ous. We will need to finalize our illustrated instructions as well as the usability test. I believe in terms of formatting, everything is in good shape. We may need to add in one or two more screenshots for some intermediate steps where they are lacking. All in all however, I believe we are in very good shape for turning in our final illustrated instructions document and usability test, and not too many revisions need to be made. I will have to individually complete the peer and project evaluation as well as the Project 2 Checklist.

This log actually covers Week 10 as well, as I was able to complete some work over Spring Break.  This was done in order to meet the Wednesday March 19th deadline of completing the draft of instructions.  I was able to complete the first half of these instructions, and then did a review of it after Mike added his part to it.  In addition to this, I started the completion of a usability test for Team Derailer and the use of the Google Calender Application.  I actually did not have a Google Account yet, and had been meaning to sign up for one.  So this was a good motivational tool for me to actually do so.  While our group did not meet in person this week, we had excellent communication via email in order to make sure all tasks were completed and posted by each deadline.

This week, we worked on getting the draft of the usability test in shape as a group.  However, before this, we each did our own individual drafts of the illustrated instructions.  After this, we decided to go with a combination of my idea of plotting simple trigonometric functions in MATLAB and that of retrieving data and producing an output with aesthetically pleasing plots.  We have split up the work in putting together a final illustrated instructions draft to submit for the Week 11, March 19th deadline.  Overall, I found the work done on the usability test so far to be a success, considering we don't have a full set of instructions completed yet.  However, I believe we have forseen a lot of the issues that people may have with our illustrated instructions in MATLAB.  We are again well on track this week, and will hopefully get a step ahead with the work done over spring break for Week 11.