After we tried the Wix.com, we felt getting on an express line.No need to worry about design,visual effect, social control, etc but in this way, we found the bottlenecks, with no surprise,which would potentially prevent us to being successful. Here is my thought.
First,Donggil gave us a question, "Who is your SME?" We never really thought about this question, though we talked about this at the beginning of the project and we all agreed that we ourselves would be the SME or we can ask alumni of IST to be the SME but Donggil said they just experienced their time in IST with the career plan but what we should do is to follow a general process,so we still need to find the real "authority" in our content.We had two options, one is to ask IU/SoE career development centre but we tried this already but received mere ordinary information and they claimed themselves as "providing career service for undergraduates mostly." Another option is to do some literature review. Though it sounds funny, but it would be the only solution. Dear, Hoosier Buddy, what do you think?
Next, Donggil also criticize our draft website as "feeling nothing to learn". We have not put some draft content in the website but it sees no potential to beat other unsuccessful career websites I found on the Internet,no attraction, no clue of sequencing, lack of motivation. Though we had a huge plan but the website is too big a information container which is wildly beyond our expectation. Seemingly, little did we prepared for this website. We have to either enrich our content or narrow down the scope to make the website look neither crowded nor empty.
Thirdly the pre-made website is hard to make it flexible as we wished to design some pop-up windows to give scaffolding for first time users, no, not here.But we have no way back since we would spend too much time on learning html codes if we chose to start from a blank page.
Anyway, it is not the time for frustration. Guess we will be fine after further discussion and literature review(I thought we should do it before but it is still cool to do it now.)
First,Donggil gave us a question, "Who is your SME?" We never really thought about this question, though we talked about this at the beginning of the project and we all agreed that we ourselves would be the SME or we can ask alumni of IST to be the SME but Donggil said they just experienced their time in IST with the career plan but what we should do is to follow a general process,so we still need to find the real "authority" in our content.We had two options, one is to ask IU/SoE career development centre but we tried this already but received mere ordinary information and they claimed themselves as "providing career service for undergraduates mostly." Another option is to do some literature review. Though it sounds funny, but it would be the only solution. Dear, Hoosier Buddy, what do you think?
Next, Donggil also criticize our draft website as "feeling nothing to learn". We have not put some draft content in the website but it sees no potential to beat other unsuccessful career websites I found on the Internet,no attraction, no clue of sequencing, lack of motivation. Though we had a huge plan but the website is too big a information container which is wildly beyond our expectation. Seemingly, little did we prepared for this website. We have to either enrich our content or narrow down the scope to make the website look neither crowded nor empty.
Thirdly the pre-made website is hard to make it flexible as we wished to design some pop-up windows to give scaffolding for first time users, no, not here.But we have no way back since we would spend too much time on learning html codes if we chose to start from a blank page.
Anyway, it is not the time for frustration. Guess we will be fine after further discussion and literature review(I thought we should do it before but it is still cool to do it now.)
Although it must have been disheartening when Donggil shared his feedback with your group, it sounds like he challenged you to take a hard look at what you were trying to do and come up with a project that was more focused. We had a similar issue with scope -- trying to take on too much for the time restrictions for the final project... and what we could realistically produce in the course of the semester while we are trying to learn how to use the tools needed to create the project.
ReplyDeleteThe encouraging thing is that the project you are completing can be one part of a bigger module that addresses many of your original instructional goals. I hope that things progress more quickly for you now that you have narrowed your scope. This will be a big week for all of the groups!