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Raising Hands video sketch

Click the following link to watch our Raising Hands video sketch: Raising Hands[ READ MORE ]

Raising Hands Final Presentation

Below is our final presentation: Raising Hands Final Presentation[ READ MORE ]

further user testing

After fixing the location of our navigation bar and the name of various sections, along with creating a higher fidelity version of the interface, we performed further user testing. We discovered that the name of some sections were still a bit vague, but we were happy to see that our users understood how to navigate [ READ MORE ]

personas

About 3 weeks ago, we developed two persona’s for our scenario based on the people we worked with (our users) during our exploratory research. They have since then adjusted a bit, as our scenario has changed and refined. We’ll post the updated version soon. Patricia, teacher: She is a 5th grade math teacher at W. [ READ MORE ]

low-fi prototyping

From our past wireframe, which laid out the website’s information architecture, we’ve now created a more developed interface. We performed user testing with a middle-aged mother, and two college age students. We had the user go through the task of logging in and navigating to the “Project Builder,” while thinking aloud their steps. Between the [ READ MORE ]

wireframing

We’ve been creating the information architecture of the Raising Hands Online Community based on a site map we developed earlier this month (which can be found in the pdf in the previous post.) Below are a couple screens of the basic wireframing. We have also developed a high-fidelity screen shot of the homepage. Screen 1 [ READ MORE ]

RH Final Concept Presentation 4/12

Here are our slides for today’s discussion: TEAM WIP-Presentation [ READ MORE ]

skype call w/ buck institute for education

Yesterday we skyped with Alfred Solis, Director of New Media from the Buck Institute for Education that promotes PBL, to get some feedback on our new concept.  BIE was very excited to hear what we were doing and promised any support they can get, as helping others promote PBL is part of their mission. Some [ READ MORE ]

Raising Hands site map & refined service timeline

After meeting with Chris P who provided a lot of valuable feedback on our new concept, we refined the service timeline and created a site map for the online community of Raising Hands. Click on the photo to view full and read the post-its. The color of the post-its is irrelevant except for the yellow [ READ MORE ]

taking Raising Hands out to the real world

After receiving feedback from our sponsors to try to push the social aspect even more and take it out to the real world from just being an online community, we expanded our concept dramatically. We took the online community concept and integrated it into a much larger systematic service. A publisher (such as Scholastic) would [ READ MORE ]

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