This week, you'll finish up polishing your pages and submit them for grading.  You'll also write a final blog post that connects this week's reading with your own reflections on this course.   No comments are necessary.

And that's it!  We're done.  It's been a pleasure working with all of you. We've done good work together, and I wish you the best of luck in the future.  If you'd like to keep in touch, you can find me on LinkedIn or Facebook.  I'd be happy to hear from you.

Submit an informal usability report to me via email.  Your text should appear in the body of the email, not as an attachment.  It should address:

- the protocols you used in your tests

- your justifications for choosing those protocols

- your testing results

- planned changes for your pages based on those results

Update:  You should also attach your protocol materials.



Your report will ideally describe the results of… Continue

We're nearly finished generating the content for the site!  Your highest priority is to finish your 4,000 words by midnight on Saturday, April 10.  Each of your pages should be tagged according to our common schema and feature at least one image or map.



It's important that you complete that on time, because Week 13 is review week.  Each of you will meet with me for a one-on-one conference during the time you signed up for.  Additionally, you will each review five pages on the wiki… Continue

It's time for the return of the Weekly Note, since our tasks will return to involving more than just hammering out drafts of the wiki pages.  Here's what we're up to this week:

1.  If you're working in a group, be sure to conduct a brief discussion on the forums about common category types and terms that you'll be using.  Remember, consistency is of vital importance.

2. Take a look at the instructions for using the new and improved… Continue

As we discussed in class, this is the week we turn our attention to the SyrGuide Wiki.  Our work here will serve several purposes:

• it provides a needed resource of consolidated information on the Syracuse area
• it provides you with an opportunity to gain experience writing informative text for a nonexpert audience
• it gives all of us on-the-ground experience with distributed teamwork and building out…

Note:  You guys need to let me know if you're looking for the weekly assignment note and can't find it.  This one was held in draft form and I didn't realize it until Monday afternoon when Justin pointed it out.



- Do the readings, as usual.  The PDF is in your syr.edu inboxes.

- Refine your plans on WriteMaps.  As discussed in class, you need to make sure you have a good, solid vision of what you're… Continue

Your job for the rest of this week is to focus on roughing out the infrastructure for your site sector on our WriteMaps site.   You can find it right here.  Your plan should integrate the previous content with the new content you want to develop.  If you get confused or run into questions, find me on email, chat, or Twitter.



When… Continue

Crawl around in the wiki and look for where the gaps in information are.  You may decide that you want to build out an existing page/quadrant, or you might decide that you want to work on something that's completely new.  You can find the wiki here:  http://beaulog.com/hillguide/index.php?title=Main_Page



- When you decide on an area to assign yourself, post on the Ning forum to let us know what you want to do.  (You… Continue

- The article we were going to read this week has been pulled off the web and is not recoverable through the Wayback Machine.  Because we're flexible people, we'll tweak things just a bit. 

• Review the section on Workstreaming in Zelenka (148-149)
• Then, view this virtual lecture by Jenny Spadafora, the resident web evangelist in the Boston iLab at Intuit. …

As promised, here are some basics on using Twitter in this class and elsewhere.  Please take the time to read through these, since it will matter both this week and in the future.  If you have questions, just ask.



First, class stuff for tweeting this week:

• Be sure you’re following me:  kakennedy
• Also, start following Jenny Spadafora, who we’ll be talking with:…