Agenda Week 10, Day 2

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Agenda Week 10, Day 2

• Where weve been
• Professional portfolio assignment guidelines
• Examples and building blocks
• Personas
• Conceptual Designs
• Portfolio text
• Today
• Formative evaluation
• Course evaluations
• Tuesday
• Open House
• Presentation from Carrie Groff

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Formative Evaluation -Why

• Formative evaluation can inform the design
  process by providing feedback that
• permits corrective action (while still in
  development)
• permits the designer to change his/her
  understanding of the problem!

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Formative Evaluation - How

• Timing Can done anytime during the design
  process, and earlier is better.
• Strategies include
• focus groups
• pilot testing
• usability testing
• expert review

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Formative Evaluation - What

• Formative evaluation refers to evaluation
  conducted for the purpose of informing continuing
  design efforts.
• Figuratively, When the cook tastes the soup,
  thats formative when the guests taste the soup,
  thats summative.

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Developing Evaluation Criteria

• Framing question What criteria should be used
  in evaluating the professional portfolio?
• Your task (as a team) Develop an evaluation
  rubric that your team will use to evaluate each
  of the current designs.
• Give one copy of rubric to instructor
• Instructor will make copies for your use

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Conducting the Evaluation

• Setting the Stage What qualities of evaluation
  feedback make it easy to accept? When is
  evaluation feedback hard to accept?
• Your task Visit each of the other teams,
  explore their portfolio designs, talk with the
  team member currently demonstrating the
  portfolio, and prepare your evaluation.

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Conducting the Evaluation (2)

• In teams
• Discuss your formative evaluations
• Elaborate your feedback
• Ensure constructive feedback
• Distribute the formative evaluation forms to the
  respective teams.

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Debrief from Evaluation

• Team Discussion
• What did you learn about your design?
• What changes?
• Class Discussion
• What did you learn about evaluation?

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Debrief from Evaluation (2)

• Professional portfolio evaluation criteria
• Award categories for open house
• Five grading categories
• Five student determined categories
• One best in show

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Looking Ahead

• Tuesday (12/10)
• Professional Portfolio Due submit URL executive
  summary, and learning reflection
• Open House invitations to TC students, faculty
  and staff to pre-engineering students to
  engineering 100 students
• Presentation from Carrie
• Monday (12/16)
• Learning portfolio due
• DONE!

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A reflective moment before

• Completing the course evaluations
• Embarking on last big assignment
• Tuesdays open house

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Learning Objectives

• As a result of participation in this course,
  students will be able to
• Use Varied Software Tools
• Learn Software Tools
• Apply TC Quality Standards
• Describe Design Processes
• Engage in Professional TC Discourse
• Identify TC Learning Issues
• Envision to Job Possibilities

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Principles for Class Design

• Create an environment supportive of learning
• E.g., Feedback, Names, High expectations,
  Creativity
• Use varied learning and assessment activities
• E.g., Technology solutions, Written description,
  Learning reflections, Sharing of expertise,
  Informal sharing of solutions
• Ensure successful experiences
• E.g., Eight solutions with eight software tools
• Transform the class into a learning community
• E.g., Sharing of solutions, Sharing of expertise,
  E-post

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Your unique experience

• Professional portfolio
• Written individual feedback
• Animation/Flash assignment
• Revised Visio assignment with
• Powerpoint presentations in lab

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Some things Ive learned

• About assignments and technologies
• How to improve teaching of Flash (e.g., timeline,
  layers)
• Teach more on file formats, scanning, etc.
• More insight into dissonance that occurs when
  switching from software tool to software tool
• About students
• High expectations
• Ability to think with audience and anticipate use
• Ability to become quite sophisticated in terms of
  design rationale

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The best class yet

• Amazing amount of creativity
• Impressive stamina
• Admirable attitudes
• Resourcefulness
• Dedication
• Reflectiveness
• Quick learners

Successful Professionals!