Saturday, May 26, 2012
CEDO 599 Week 2 Capstone Project Timeline & SMART Goals
This week after meeting with our professor, we were supposed to not only flesh out our project, but also to come up with a timeline for the completion of our project. This is one of the most difficult things I have had to do during this MEIT program. I know how to build sites, but to be able to plan how long each part will take in order to do a good job is the difficult part. The first site I made public was a robotics website that dealt with the basic physics of how a combat robot would work. This was built in 2001, and when I was done with my research, contacting people for permission to use their photos and also figure out how to create a site using HTML I have a feeling that 100 hours of work went into my site. With the advances of WYSIWYG site creation, I am sure the creation of the site will not be the major issue. Deciding on the applications and making sure there are how to FAQs or video so that people who are not familiar with the applications can use them will be the most time consuming part of this project. Making everything flow well and make sense will also consume lots of time since I am very picky about how things look. Here is a link to my timeline and SMART Goals. Let me know what you think.
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Mike---
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you've got a great start to your project. Having the experience of creating a "how-to" website should really suit you well for this final project. I do have one question for you though: How did you go about getting the permission for your photos? I'm doing something similar for my project, and I was just curious
When I did my original robotics/physics website, I had to find contact e-mail addresses for all the people whose photos I wanted to use. I then created a generic letter that I modified for each recipient. Not all responded, not all responded favorably, but most did. I even got permission to use the likeness of the creators of Mythbusters who had a battlebot named Blendo. It took a lot of work, but it was well worth it. My site was linked to by some of the major battlebot creators who said it was a good example of the physics used for robotics (especially for those who were new to robotics like the 7th graders I built the site for).
ReplyDeleteI completely relate to how time consuming this project will be. I am looking for some tools that allow me to enter something once and disseminate it to FB/Twitter. I am looking for something that will allow me to text it in and then disseminate. Then, I will be teaching the other members of the organization to use it. This may be the hardest thing to do. I'm not sure if I'll do tutorials, written documentation, screencasting or small group training. Have you considered screencasting for teaching the applications?
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