March Madness: Senior Capstone Due

Today the senior capstone project was due today. March Madness was not a problem because most of the students had their project for the most part completed. Tenzin and Williams went to a Game Convention with Ryan and were not in class.

Ann started off the class with a Learn@UW survey of only two questions: what was one good comment you received and what was one good comment you gave. Shockingly, not all of the students had received good comments. Also, the students all said they had not been given the opportunity to give other students comments which lead into a good transition to the day's goals. The students started off with work time and then had a student review of each others project.

Amanda and Letara have finished their tasks for AHANA. The only thing that needs tweeking is formatting issues that will arise when the organization needs to have stuff printed. Their thank you cards are having issues in Word. Ann suggested them to use Illustrator but they did not take the advice. Maybe by next session the two will have the problem fixed.

The Wellness group has everything finished. Pari has the website complete and plans on keeping in touch with the group and acting as their web developer. Alex helped Pari for most of the day. Brenda continued to work on her PowerPoint.

PaYing is frantically trying to finish the yearbook. Ann told Kiki to help. Currently, the senior page and the junior page are complete. There still needs to be work done for the background of each page because the text is unreadable. Next session, I am going to have Kiki continue to work with PaYing who is done with her project.

3/20/2010 updates

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Danny, Jesus, Mark:
This group is wrapping up their project and is struggling on the small details. Naming the cd or just making a decision to finalize something.

Gabby:
Her site is coming along, Chou helped fixed up her layout and is now looking good for Eliza to give her some content to work with.

Sheng:
Same as Gabby, her site is coming along, her layout is completed along with some pages having working content.

Ruben and Mark T.:
They worked mainly on their showcase project today and has a good idea, but getting it together and tweaking it for elementary school students, may take a little more time.

Paochoua:
Showed up and said his flash files are now missing... Not much could be recovered or done but to try to start over rather than sit on what happened.

April and Laura:
They just kept quite most of the time and kept working. Questions were asked when needed and most of all from their project other than looking great is that they are relearning and taking photoshop to a new level that what was tough in class.

Thisa:
Her layout is coming along, most of the layout is completed and has started to put content on some pages. There are still some glitches in the layout that needs to be fixed.

Seng:
Worked quietly all day, and his hand drawing/colored Photoshop pictures are coming along just good. Not sure how much different files he's done with, but they are starting to look complete.

March 6, 2010

Status update for everyone in the class. With two weeks until all the capstone projects are due, the students were busy working away the class time. Here is a status report on the students, their current projects, and what they hope to accomplish by next week (besides finishing up their capstone)

Williams

- Williams has been put in a strange situation due to Medic being backlogged in work, and hence unable to schedule enough work for Williams to keep him consistently busy. However, Williams has provided some great support to both Pa Ying and Kiki in their own projects, and continues to help out on the other capstone projects while he awaits word from Medic.

Pa Ying

- Pa Ying is working as fast as she can on the interactive powerpoint for the ITA yearbook. During this class period, Williams helped Pa Ying snap photos of some of the students who have so far flown under the radar for getting their pictures taken! Pa Ying is currently trying to catalog the photos of the students from the classes, and getting the powerpoints together. Williams is also assisting Pa Ying in making the powerpoint presentations. By next session Pa Ying will have a rough generation of the yearbook, which should be very exciting!

Mr. Tenzin

- Mr. Tenzin was having some issues incorporating all of the separate flash files (main menu, etc. ) into one complete flash file. Once all the files are together, Tenzin needs to have a screen that will adjust the difficulty level for the player, which then requires actionscript prompts. Chou provided some assistance to Tenzin, and helped point him in the right direction as far as online resources which may better help him in his project.

Amanda and Letara

- Amanda and Letara were modifying a thank you card that Ahana would like to send out to some recipients. Some of the issues they have both been having with the format is because of the card itself being a fold over. Ann provided some great advice during the session, and hopefully that helped them both work out the particular problems.

Brenda, Pari, and Alex

What you see above is a final example of the webpage for the Allied Wellness Cooperative. After many iterations, this group has come up with a great design layout and the color scheme is distinctly sublime. These three have come up with some great designs since their project began, hopefully the Allied cooperative will agree!