Desk Crit II

Date: Thu 20 Mar 19:32:17 EDT 2008
From: Daisyane Barreto Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: Desk Crit
To: surp0526@uga.edu

Hi Trudian,

Overall, I thought your prototype was excellent. It provided a lot of information about how your real product will look like. Also, it has a very clean interface and it seems very objective. I really liked what you have seen so far.

I have a few suggestion/comment to your project. On the activities screen, I’m not sure if you have already planned this or not, but it would be good to have a sort of checkmark on each activities that they have completed. I don’t know if it’s one of the goal of you project or not, but at least doing this, learners could keep track of the activities that they have already completed.

Another thing that I noticed on your project is that it has a lot of content and I know for some people it’s really hard to concentrate or keep up with the text information. One suggestion that I have is to make use of visual content whenever possible. I thought maybe you could display some of the text information through pictures, animations or diagrams. I know this sounds a lot, but it’s just a suggestion.

Your project looks great and I know it will be greater at the night of showcase :)!! You did a great job ;)!!

Best,
Daisy

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Service Hour- Entry 1

This semester, I committed to help the Brazilian Student Association (BSA) managing their website, since there is no webmaster responsible for it. I have been posting information and new events in their website, uploading pictures and images to the homepage, manipulating images, etc. My service hours so far has been up to 5 hours. I’ll try to commit with other kind of services, but I think it would be hard to manage it.

Organization: BSA - Brazilian Student Association
President of the organization: Jessica McAuliffe
Website: www.uga.edu/bsa

Desk Crit I

Date: Wed 19 Mar 20:23:51 EDT 2008
From: Daisyane Barreto Add To Address Book | This is Spam
Subject: Desk Crit
To: iyhou@uga.edu


Hi I-Yung,

I really like your project idea. I think developing a simulation game can help a lot of people, especially those that don’t know much about photography concepts. Since I wasn’t able to discuss with you about your project, I read you reflection journals and seems to me that you are in the right path with you project. I would love to discuss more with you about your project and how you are planning to develop. I’m also planning to develop a game, but I’m facing a lot of problems with the programming :P!!

I have some suggestions/ comments to you project:

1) You mentioned that you will develop simulations for each composition. Would it be better to have small activities (kind of drill and practice or so) for each composition and then have a simulation game that combines all the compositions? I think that way it would be more interesting and realistic for the player.
2) I don’t know how complicated to develop this might be (I think it might be too much), but what if you could have a scene in which the player need to take a snapshot. In order to do this, s/he would control a simulated camera. In this simulated camera, they could adjust the lens, focus, light, flash, etc in the camera. You wouldn’t need to have all these elements, but especially those that would influence the compositions.
3) I was looking through some websites and I found this report on a game about taking snapshot of birds. I don’t know if this would interest you or not, anyway, here is the link of the website:
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/14122/bird-photography/
I hope this desk crit can be helpful.

See you tomorrow in class ;)

Daisy