This week I have been sick, which is bad and good. It is no fun being sick, but when I got to stay home from work, I was able to work on a few scrapbook pages for my project. I have been having a lot of fun being immersed in the projects. The hardest part for me is not to get nostalgic when I am going through the old pictures and video. I can sit and look through those all day long!
Specifically, I have worked through the bath page and the food page. ( food and bath ) Although I am getting faster with Photoshop, creating the pages are still time consuming. I am thinking about the time that I have left and the amount of work that I have. Originally I wanted to have a page for each month. Lately, I have been considering combining the months (1&2, 3, 4 &5, etc..) so that I can complete my project on time.
For today's literature review, I chose to listen to Donald Norman's presentation of Emotional Design. In the beginning, he wanted to make a statement to all of the techies in the room that creating products that "are pretty is nice. Make it fun! Make it enjoyable!". This is what I am trying to do when I create Elisa's pages. But the ironic thing is that I am having fun and it is enjoyable creating the pages, so I hope that it shows through my project. Norman also stated that the "technology has to be flawless, but no one cares about it too much".... unless it doesn't work! I have not started creating the website that will encompass my project, but I need to make sure that it works so that it will display my scrapbook correctly. Another interesting comment that Norman discussed was the issue of the cognitive model. I want to make sure that I am reaching the goals that should be met by the brain. For instance, the visceral part of the model should affect the surface attractiveness. "Beauty is skin deep". I want my pages to be beautiful, enjoyable to look at and impactful. I want them to engage the audience and make them want more. The second part of the model is behavioral, its usability. This is the part that I haven't started on, but is one of my future goals. The last section of the model is reflective. This is the section that I hope, litterally, attracts Elisa because it asks the question of "do you see yourself in it? What does it mean to you?". I hope it means an insight to her past, but also a record for my family of her first precious life.
I was also drawn in by the reading of Rose, D.H. & Meyer's Universal Design of Learning. In their text they spoke of the three rules of universal design:
- To represent information in multiple formats and media.
- To provide multiple pathways for student's action and expression.
- To provide multiple ways to engage student's interest and motivation.
I thought about it and I am going to provide some rollover text on some images of my wall gallery to achieve the first goal of UD. I want to also post my scrapbook as individual pages and something that people can breeze through in a book format. I hope that checks off goal number three. I still have to think about goal number two!
Next steps:
- Continue hamering out my scrapbook pages
- Use Dreamweaver to construct my site
References:
Chapter 4 of Rose, D.H. & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.[On-line]. Available: http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/
Norman, D. 2004. Emotional design. Presentation made at the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technologyconference. [podcast] Available: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail69.html
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