Wednesday, November 19, 2008

15_5 #13

Whew, the showcase dress rehearsal is over, now we can breathe! Right? Wrong, now we enter full speed mode as we head towards the finish line! Just looking back, I would like to think that the dress rehearsal was a success. We did pretty well on our presentation and was also able to get great feedback on what we can do to improve it. I am just happy that we were able to complete what we had planned to complete in time for the dress rehearsal, and I believe that since we did this we are now in a better position as we approach the final stages of development and try to head into evaluations.

As for what we as a team have been working on this past week, we are just picking up where we left off last week at the rehearsal and trying to get all the videos, animations and HTML pages completed for the remaining four sections. Suhwa has also begun developing templates for the two gallery sections. Until this week, we had nothing for these sections, so I am happy that we are finally addressing them.

Personally this week, I worked on completing an activity and developing the HTML pages for 1 of the four lessons we have left to do. I also worked on our screen redesign, our current screen design for the lesson HTML pages, required the user to scroll up and down and collectively as a team we decided that this approach was not the most user-friendly. Therefore, for the past two weeks I have been working on that and I was finally able to get that done.

We are hoping to have at least all the lesson HTML pages completed this week and have the first completed draft of the entire project very soon with all the reaming sections (video and photo gallery) completed. Hopefully, we will have no serious issues moving forward and will be able to complete the project in time for the showcase, which is now just two weeks away!