Blackboard has got the information of what we need to present and how we have to present it online now:

Assessment Specification and CRA Pitch 1

Posted on: Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Hello Everyone

The Artifact Design Assignment specification has been released on Blackboard, along with the Criteria Reference Assessment (CRA) which is used to mark presentation 1.

The artifact which you are designing is a mobile application that addresses a user need and has some novelty.  You have been asked to 'mash-up' two mobile application types to increase the novelty of your solution.  This presentation is inthe Week 5 workshop times and is worth 10% of the semester's marks.

You will have 8 minutes to present and 5 minutes of obtaining feedback from your audience - your workshop peers.  

You are essentially extending your previous presentation completed in week 3, but this time, marks are given.  You are refining your ideas based on your peer feedback from last week.  The presentation is to cover much the same material, but increase your passion and enthusiasm for this project and be clearer about the different types of users who will be interested in using your app.

Each team will have 2 turns at presenting to different members of the workshop.  Identify which pair of students will present first and which pair of students will present second.  If there is a team of 5, then there will be one pair and one triple of students presenting.  The concept of presentation and flow of presentations is detailed in the assignment specifications.

The key purpose of this presentation is to extend your practice of pitching and to gain valuable feedback on the quality of your idea and possible ways of improving your concept.  You learning facilitator will mark, and your peers will also be completing the CRA on your presentation content and style.  Your peer feedback is essential to improve your concept plan, and your learning facilitator will collect the CRA, collate them and hand them back to you at the commencement of the workshop in week 6.  You must, however, have someone in the team to take notes of the peer feedback as it is delivered and your team must meet in week 6 to determine which suggestions you will take forward in the next prototype and also what new things you will incorporate based on this and other feedback.  You must provide a 1 page written back brief to your learning facilitator on the teams actions from this feedback and you will hand this in during the week 6 workshops.

Read these specifications carefully.

I will be in S408 between 11-12 Thursday 21 March to answer any questions you may have on these elements.  Richard will be in P504 Thursday between 2-4.  I will then be in P504 between 4-5 on Thursday.

This is the week of extension and rehearsal.  Use the workshop times to continue meeting and rehearsing your material.

We all look forward to your pitch next week!

Remember, this Friday we have the Industry Conference between 9-1.

See you Friday.

Regards

Glenn

Professor Glenn Stewart

INB103 Unit Coordinator

Meeting Minutes Google Docs

Our meeting minutes document is online now through Google Docs, link is https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Oqr43OGtyCiPFo21vd9hG4nVHWYKHuCMCCaodl0BUQ/edit

Friday 15th group meeting in Library

Whats up people!?!

Just a reminder for everyone in the group that we're all meeting up in the library entrance on Friday the 15th about 30 minutes after our INB103 Lecture for a brief meeting to discuss some mash-up app (or as Jason so eloquently put it "a mash-app") ideas.
(I've set it 30 minutes after the lecture so everyone can go grab a drink and something to eat if they want.) 
Please bring some notes along on any ideas you've thought about so far so we can all read them together.
It'll be an early start for us so don't forget to bring your creative brains along for some epic group brainstorming work.

Also I still need Rob's and Edward's gmails so I can add the two of you as blog authors. That way everyone can keep track of where we are all at as a group on these assignments.

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Peace out!!!

Notes from Friday

- Week 2 Notes -

 So when we all decided on Google Translate as our group App of choice we got some notes down which are as followed.

Team Tasks: Google Translate

1. What's good about this app?
Answer -
Convenience for overseas travel.
Easy to explore and learn foreign languages.
Breaks down the language barrier.
It's free (lol Jason)
The app is constantly updating to better itself.
Efficiency.

2. What type of app is it?
Answer -
It's a communications App.

3. Who gets it (downloads it) and why?
Answer -
Anyone with a computer device with Internet access can use it for the use of a language translator.

4. What could be improved in this app?
Answer -
Better localisation and dialect options/tweaks.
Ability to understand the users voice patterns.
Friendly face interface.
Mouth monitor.
Sign language translator
Cache storage for particular languages so the user does not need to be connected to the Internet.

I believe Jason volunteered to make our first speech of the semester, so if he has any questions about any of the answers, he can put them in the comments section of this post.

New Beginnings

Hey guys!
I've put this blog up on the hopes that maybe we can use it to share notes and talk about our group assignments in the INB103 class at QUT. This way we can upload awesome ideas, hilarious pictures, and youtube cat videos (if thats your thing... I wont judge) Anyways if you're interested let me know and I'll add you all as Blog Authors so we can all post stuff up on here. You will need a google account (if you don't have one already) to be a Blog Author and you will have to use said account to sign in to Blogger but I think this could very well be a great meeting place for the 4 of us when we aren't at Uni together.

Google account sign up: Here



Viva La Team Awesome!
Mitch Druce