This is my memo for project three.  I had a good experience with my group.  However, I would not reccomend this course to any other statewide technology students.  Our classes are all at the wrong time and we are all commuter students as well.  The daily postings, reading responses, and multiple peer reviews consume more time than most of us have available to us. 

Attached is my project three checklist for weeks 12 through finals. 

This past week I learned about how to use Macromedia Captivate.  Adobe Captivate was not available on ITAP machines but using Macromedia Captivate I was able to generate most of the multimedia Presentation.  I recorded the sound in the DLC located in the basement of Hicks Library where I could borrow a microphone from the library compatible with ITAP computers.  I completed about 2/3 of the presentation and ran into a snag.  Seth met with me on Wednesday evening and we spent a couple hours working out some of the problems that I was having.  I was able to post the draft of the multimedia presentation online after we finished the initial run through.  This next week I will make any changes I can that are suggested by my group and/or the rest of the class.

This week the deam finished the multimedia presentation and the user documantation drafts and posted them both. We all kept in contact by email and would email our comments back and forth. It worked out ok but since there was a lack of communication the work load didnt get divided up evenly. Overall we achieved out end goal.

During this week we completed our User Documentation and Multimedia Presentation drafts, and posted them up yesterday. I assisted Matt with completing the Multimedia document that he had started last week. Unfortunately, we were unable to produce a clear audio for the file since we had to use the microphone in the Undergrad Library computer lab, while other students were talking and working on computers. However, we were both impressed with what we came up with and believe that our client will be very pleased after we update it after we receive some peer feedback.

Our multimedia presentaion draft can be found at the following link: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mscheidt/FacebookGroupCreation.htm  Sound is used to make the presentation easier to follow.  User documentation which aids in the instruction process can be found at: http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp08/mckelvey3/node/1913

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This week we all worked on the user documentation drafts.  Matt and Seth did the multimedia presentation.  Josh, Kyle and I worked the the word document.  I think we did a good job editing each other and  communicating often.  Everyone is helping and  the project is going well.

Our user documentation is focused on a  user who will be creating a group.  Our user intends to use this group as a learning to for a freshman engineering class.  This means that every year there will be a new group of members joining this facebook group. In the event that the current group creator must leave the group, he/she will be able to easily pass it  on to another faculty member by inviting them to join and then making  them an officer.  The new professor, as well as teachers assistants and possibly some  class members will be able to edit content and membership of the group.  Our main focus is to assist the professor in setting up a secure and useful group where student and faculty can post news, asks questions, and in general improve the learning environment for all new freshman engineering students.

This week we continued to work on our Multimedia Presentation as well as our User Documentation.  We completed these two drafts as a group, with each person adding their part and getting a chance to review.  We posted both the drafts this week.  During the rest of the week we reviewed other group's drafts of these two documents.  We will continue to work on these documents and post our final drafts next week.

This week I drafted our team’s ENGR126 group Facebook
instructions based off of another team’s Project 2 Facebook instructions and
then based them onto my team members for further edits and modifications. I also updated my individual usability test
study from last week to include additional questions to target sections our
team had added to our instructions document.
Our team also posted the usability report and received plenty of good
comments that will assist us in the final week to complete everything left to
do. I think we will still have plenty of
room to improve and make sure that our multimedia presentation fulfills our client’s
needs to the best of our abilities.