• Welcome 
• Introductions 
• Overview of Immersion Experience- a different experience (Brenda)
• Schedule and time commitment
• Review Immersion Website, Books, Readings, Requirements & Assessment (Brenda)
• Concerns (Kevin)
• Begin Shield Activity (Kevin)

Textbooks (Required):
The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player- J. Maxwell

Managing Teams - L. Holpp

First Things Fast - A. Rossett

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research - M. Kuniavsky

Communities of Practice, Learning, Meaning and Identity - E. Wenger

eLearning and the Science of Instruction - R.Clark & R. Mayer

Designing Web-based Training - Horton, W.

Textbooks (Optional):

Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-centered Design - L. Constantine & L. Lockwood

Maximum Accessibility - J.M. Slatin & S. Rush

Real Web Project Management - T.J. Shelford & G.A. Remillard

The Design of Sites - D. VanDuyne, J. Landay & J. Hong

Creating Graphics for Learning and Performance - Linda Lohr

Readings: (Reading Packet available in 117 Johnson Center - under team leader name, team assignments provided on Wednesday)

Assignments:

1) Review Immersion Site

3) Complete Shield Activity

4) Draft concerns

• Review Immersion Site items not discussed previously (Kevin)
• Demonstrate Portfolios (Brenda)
• Discuss Reflection Requirements (Brenda)
• Discuss Paper Requirements (Kevin)
  
• Demonstrate Project Sites (Brenda & Kevin)
• Presentations of Shields (Kevin)

1) Turn in concerns

2) Review sample project sites

3) Read Action Learning paper 

4) Handout: The ILD Framework Graphic - Bannan-Ritland

• Discuss Concerns (Kevin & Brenda)
• Review Listservs (Kevin)
• Action Learning (Brenda)
• The "Big" Picture - ILD Framework (Brenda)
• Resources: Mason Media Lab (Brenda), Instructional Resource Center Materials/handouts (Brenda), Star Workshops (Kevin)
• Brief introduction to project (Brenda, Kevin, Mike and Priscilla)
• Identify team members
• Specific meeting times for groups (beginning the week of Sept 2nd) and common meeting times identified on schedule
• Presentations of Shields (Kevin)

1) Subscribe to IT listserv and project listservs

2) Initially review background information on project housed on project sites

Meeting: 10:00am - 12:00pm, lunch break and resume at 1:00-3:00 for completion of shield presentations - Commerce Lab  I

• Meet to go over procedures for uploading project site and uploading to tonka server (Jamie)
• Presentations of Shields (Kevin and Brenda)
  

1) Discuss and select roles for project site administration

2) Teams plan to meet to determine weekly meeting times, review project site responsibilities, determine roles, assess how to begin development of group's project site

• Begin development of individual Web Portfolio and initial reflections on Immersion experience

1) Determine individual learning goals for semester and begin to develop individual Web-based portfolio

2) Begin design/development of project Web site

3) Read Maxwell: 17 Qualities- Chapter 1 - 4 for next week.

4) Read Holp - Managing Teams Chapters 4,5&6 - Team goals, norms and roles for next week

• Discuss Maxwell - Adaptable, collaborative committed and communicative (Brenda)
• The Respect Principle (Brenda)
• Tips on reading research articles (Brenda)
• Team goals, norms and roles (Kevin)
• Forming Groups (Kevin)
• Presentations of Shields (if needed)

1) Review Tuckman model

2) Establish and write Team Vision and Norms

3) Discuss and determine group meeting protocol

4) Read Rossett - chapter 1 - 4 for application to project and group presentation next week

• Project-specific meeting times
• Introduction to TTAC (Lucinda Zimmerman)
• Introduction to Data collection in TTAC (Mike)
• Identify client and goals for project
• Identify drivers and barriers for project
• Identify information sources for project
• Identify type of opportunity

1) Apply Rossett readings to project and initially identify your project client, goals, drivers, barriers, any information sources to tap and the type of opportunity your project presents. Write up these in a bulleted list and post on project site for presentation on Tuesday, Sept. 9th

2) TTAC groups: Review Introduction to Assistive Technology

3) TTAC groups: Review TTAC Online prototype site for technical and design problems and TTAC project site: Phase 6 listing issues and questions for former student team members on Monday

• Tour of Mason Media Lab

1) Read Rossett - chapters 5 & 6 for next week

2) Read Keppell- Optimizing Instructional Designer-Subject Matter Expert Communications in reading packet for next week

3) ) Read Maxwell - 5-7

No face to face meeting

• Initial Development of Project site
• Post first status report on project site
• Individual Portfolio Reflection: impressions of the projects, identify issues for design and development

1) Continue to review project site, prototype and associated materials

2) Draft questions related to project and bring on Monday

3) Work on project site, individual portfolio

Meeting: 12:00pm-3:00-pm Commerce Lab I

• Former Immersion students present perspectives on experience
• Question/answer session with former students
• Discuss Maxwell - chapters 5-7 (Kevin)
• Discuss SME interaction strategies and communicating to gather information and support (Brenda)
• Presentation of initial performance analysis data (client, goals, drivers, barriers, info sources, type of opportunity) (Kevin)
• Concept Mapping
• Performance Analysis

• Discuss and Draft Performance Analysis Plan
• In-class identify stages, data sources and pose questions (see Rossett - page 97) (Brenda)
• Discuss data gathering strategies and delegate responsibilities (Kevin)
• Review example of performance analysis briefing report (Rossett - page 146-151) (Kevin)
• More Concept Mapping

1) Teams draft performance analysis plan

• Project-specific meeting times
• Presentation by former TTAC students (Lucinda, Deena & Trista)
• Question and answer about TTAC
• TTAC group 1 team, TTAC group 2 team and TOA team: Draft performance analysis plan and begin to carry out plan and collect project related data

1) Work on carrying out performance plan, collect and review initial data related to project. Compile initial findings for inclusion in performance analysis/research document due Oct.

2) Read Kuniavsky - Chapters 1-4 for next week

3) Read Maxwell - Chapters 8-9

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce  Lab I (TTAC group 1 and 2 teams required only)

• Introduction to Assistive Technology (Mike)

No face to face Meeting:

• Add above performance analysis drafts and elements to project site
• Post status report on project site

Add to project site:

• Performance analysis plan
• Data gathering
• Initial analyses as they take shape
• Roles and responsibilities

• Debrief on status of performance analysis (Kevin)
• Conduct micro-usability test using products with other group members (Brenda )
• Debrief on micro-usability test (Brenda)
• Discuss value of user research, design research, iterative development and relationship to instructional design (Brenda)

• Discuss Maxwell chapters 8-9 (Kevin)
• Intersection between performance analysis, research plan and instructional design (Brenda)
• Incorporate research plan into peformance analysis document
• Work on performance analysis/research document

1) Read Kuniavsky - Chapters 5-6 for application to project on Wednesday

2) Read Klimczak & Wedman: Instructional Design Project Success Factors in reading packet

Work on peformance analysis/research document

Meeting: Commerce I 12:00-3:00pm

• Project-specific meeting times
• Begin to determine appropriate research methods for project
• Discuss Potential Schedule of Research and incorporation of research plan into performance analysis with project lead
• Discuss recruiting and interviewing with project lead
• Meet with Programmer/Information Architect - Shuangbao Wang

1) Read Maxwell Chap 10 & 11

2) Determine appropriate research methods, identify participants, schedule of research, recruitment and interview strategies and incorporate in performance analysis/research plan for group presentation of research plan on Tuesday, Sept 23rd.

3) Read Kuniavsky - appropriate chapter for selected research method (or alternative reading)

Meeting:

• TTAC Groups: Assistive Technology Lab, 221 Thompson Hall 10:00-12:00

  • Introduction to Assistive Technology session with Kristine Nueber

No face to face meeting:

• Post status/meeting reports
• Contribute reflections to portfolio at least twice monthly

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab I
          

• Discuss Maxwell - chapter 10 & 11 (Brenda)
• Project mission/goals based on performance analysis/research plan and data collection (Kevin)

1) Read Writing Good Work Objectives

• Present performance analysis/research plan to project leads (Kevin, Mike, Brenda & Priscilla)
• Begin data collection after incorporation of feedback

1) Post performance analysis/research plan to project Web site

2) Read Kang - Toward a Collaborative Model for the Design of Web-based Courses in course packet

3) Read Norton: COPLS: An Alternative to Traditional Online Course Management Tools in course packet

4) Read Kapp - Solutions in course packet

Meeting: 12:00 Commerce Lab I presentation on XHTML with Shuangbao Wang

• Project-specific meeting time

• Data collection

1) Conduct data gathering for selected user research methods appropriate at this point for inclusion in peformance analysis

Meeting:

• TTAC Groups: Assistive Technology Lab, 221 Thompson Hall 10:00-12:00

  • Introduction to Assistive Technology session with Kristine Nueber

1) Conduct data gathering for selected user research methods appropriate at this point for reporting on Tuesday, Sept.30th

• Post project goals, work objectives and plan for collecting more information to inform audience analysis/role models/personnas to project site
• Status Report due

1) Conduct data gathering for selected user research methods appropriate at this point for reporting on Tuesday, Sept.30th

UTOPICProject: Finalize Performance Analysis, Project Goals, Usability Testing

• Data gathering and compiling for performance analysis/research document

• Discussion of Collaborative model of Web-based course design and COPLS Model

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Overview - 508 Compliance with Kristine Neuber

• Project-specific meeting time

• Data gathering, compiling and analysis
• Writing performance analysis/research document

1) Read Usage-centered Engineering for Web Applications as an overview of Usage-centered design for next week

2) Read Maxwell 14 (self-improving) and 15 (selfless)

3) Read Horton - Chapters 1-3

Briefly review some of these Web sites for visit with Kristine Nueber on Web site accessibility and section 508.

1) Universal Design for Learning (CAST)

2) Bobby W3C web accessibility Initative

3) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

4) Web Design Group 

5) Web Accessibility 

6) Designing a More Useable World for All (Trace Center)

7) Accessible Web sites (Trace Center)

8) Microsoft's resources for Web designers

9) Specific barriers to Web access

10) WebABLE for disability-related resources

11) AWARE html Writers Guild

12) Accessibility is a State of Mind - Presentation and links compiled by a former Immersion student, Claudette Archaubalt

13) Macromedia Accessiblity Resources

Writing performance analysis/research document

No face to face Meeting

• Data gathering, compiling and analysis
• Writing performance analysis/research document
• Status report due

Meeting: No Class Meeting

• Data gathering, compiling and analysis
• Writing performance analysis/research document
  

Work time : 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Discuss Maxwell - 14 (self improving) and 15 (selfless) (Brenda)
• Goal-Directed Design (Meredith)
• Discuss WBT approaches
• Overview Usage-centered Design (Brenda)
• Audience analysis: Introduction to role models/personnas
• Examples of User Role Models (Brenda)
• Personas example (Brenda)
• Intersection of Usage-centered design and ISD (Brenda)
• Discuss if additional observations/communication is necessary to produce role models/personnas

DUE: Performance Analysis/Research Document including introduction, drivers, barriers, priorities, recommendations, research goals, research schedules and analyzed results from initial data gathering

DUE: Project mission statement for approval by Project leads

• Project-specific meeting time

  Discuss performance analysis/research document with project lead
• Discuss project mission statement with project lead

1) Create User-Role Model /Personnas for presentation on Tues, Oct 14th

2) Sign up for 15-20 minute individual presentation of Clark & Mayer or Wenger chapter

3) Read Clark & Mayer 1, 2 & 3 (assigned)

4) Read Brown, Collins & Duguid - Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning

NEW -- MBTI Teamwork Training (Meyers Briggs test) 
10 am - 3 pm

• Project-specific meeting time

• Draft role models/personnas

NEW -- MBTI Teamwork Training (Meyers Briggs test) 
9am - 2pm

• Post role models/personnas to project Web site
• Post status report/meeting notes
• Draft Usability Testing Report

1) Review Assistive Technology Tutorials to see examples of what TTAC Online users may be familiar with

2) Review Track Star for structure, interface and accessibility information

Class Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce lab I (Tuesday classes do not meet but Monday classes meet on Tuesday):

• Present user role models/personnas
• Introduction to Task flow diagrams & Use Cases
• Examples of use cases
• Intersection of use cases and ISD
• Individual chapter presentations of Clark & Mayer chapters 1,2 & 3

1) Work on Use Cases

**12 - 3 webshop uploading with Shuangbao

• Project-specific meeting time

• Work on Use Cases

1) Work on Use Cases

2) Read Clark & Mayer chapters 4, 5 & 6

3) Read Horton - chapters 4 & 5

4) Read Berge - Interaction in Post-Secondary Web-based Learning

Optional: public speaking workshop 12:00 - 2:00pm
email Tara by 10/8 if you will attend

• Project-specific meeting time

• Work on Use Cases

• PORTFOLIO REVIEW
• Status report
• Post role models/personnas
• Work on Use Cases

• Discuss WBT - building frameworks & organizing learning sequences
• Discuss Berge's conceptualization of Interaction
• Present Use Cases for feedback - TTAC Group 1
• Individual chapter presentations of Clark & Mayer chapter 4

 Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Present Use Cases for feedback - TTAC Group 2
• Present Use Cases for feedback - TOA
• Introduction to Interface Content Modeling
• Model task
• Begin Interface content modeling
• Individual chapter presentations of Clark & Mayer chapter 5 and 6
  • Joan, Mona, Jolin, Robert

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

12 - 2 SCORM workshop

• Interface Content Modeling

1) Read Clark & Mayer chapter 8, 9, 10

2) Read Horton chapters 6 & 7

Team Meeting: 10:00-12:00pm Commerce Lab

• Interface Content Modeling

No face to face meeting

• Post status report/meeting notes
• Post interface content modeling
• POST FINAL USE CASES

No Class Meeting

• Work on revising existing and generating additional use cases

Meeting 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Present Use Cases for feedback - TOA
• Present updated Use Cases - TTAC1 and TTAC2
• Introduction to Interface Content Modeling
• Discuss active learning and evaluation requirements based on Horton chap 6 & 7
• Individual chapter presentations - Clark & Mayer chapter 10
  • Ch 8 Danalyn
  • Ch 9 Shirley
  • Ch 10 Nantana

1) Work on Interface content modeling

2) Read Clark & Mayer chapter 11 and 12

Meeting 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Begin interface content modeling
• Finalize brainstormed use cases

Meeting 10:00-12:00pm Commerce Lab

•  Interface content modeling

No Meeting

• Interface content modeling
• FINAL USE CASES DUE POSTED TO PROJECT WEB SITE

• Work on Interface content modeling

• Present and review Interface Content Models in class- TTAC group 1
• Present and review Interface Content Models in class - TTAC group 2
• Present and review interface content models - The Online Academy
• Individual chapter presentations of Clark & Mayer chapter 11 and 12
  • Ch 11 Kirk, Meredith
  • Ch 12 Dan

1) Read Shelford & Remillard - Chapter 8 & 9 in Readings packet

Meeting: 12:00-3:00 Commerce Lab

• Project-specific meeting times

• Revise Interface Content Models based on team input

• Each team discuss workflow of development/production phase
• Present Site Diagram and Visio (Shuangbao) for all groups
• Shuangbao presents guidance on detailed flowcharts for TTAC1 and TTAC2 group

1) Read Clark & Mayer, Chapters 13 & 14

• IT Panel Presentation
• Work on site diagrams and/or flowcharts

No face to face meeting

• Status report
• INTERFACE CONTENT MODELS DUE

• Wire frames discussion - value of separating electronic content and visuals
• Examples of LAO wireframes
• Description of Wireframes
  http://www.strangesystems.net/archives/000003
• Wireframe examples
  http://www.iawiki.net/WireFrames
• Wireframe and HTML prototype article
  http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/html_
  wireframes_and_prototypes_all_gain_and_no_pain.php
• Primer producing wireframes using Dreamweaver
  http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/
  dreamweaver_primer.php?page=4
• Work on site diagrams and/or flowcharting (if required)
• Individual chapter presentations of Clark & Mayer chapter 13
  • John, Leslie

1)Determine work flow process for producing site diagrams, flowcharts for database (if necessary), wireframes, interface, visual design. Map out process and responsibilities for next 4 weeks

2) Translate Interface Content Modeling into site structure flowchart

• Write content and produce wireframes
• Presentation of Usability resources and intersection with ISD (Leslie Carter)
• Individual chapter presentations of Clark & Mayer chapter 14
  • Heather, Justin

• Write content and produce wireframes

• Write content and produce wireframes

   

• Status Report Due
• Contribute Reflections to Portfolio

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

Cross group Project Sharing

• Present Wireframes - TOA
• Present Wireframes - TTAC1
• Present Wireframes - TTAC2
• Discussion -- Visual Design

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Discussion -- Visual Design
• Visual Design and Production

Tunnel of Oppression, 2:15 - 3:15pm
Johnson Center, downstairs in Dewberry Hall

Meeting: Commerce Lab

• Visual Design and Production

• Project-specific meeting time

• Visual Design and Production

• Visual Design and Production

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Visual Design and Production

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Visual Design and Production

No Meeting: Thanksgiving Recess

Usability Testing/RevisionsTOPIC

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Visual Design and Production

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Groups Report
• Finalize Visual Design and Production

• Visual Design and Production
• Discuss Final Presentation

• Prepare for Final Presentation

• Prepare for Final Presentation
• Status Report Due

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Practice Run of Presentation
  • Win-Win: 9 - 11 am
  • TOA: 11 am -1 pm
  • TTAC 2: 1 - 3 pm

Meeting: 12:00-3:00pm Commerce Lab

• Practice Run of Presentation
  • TTAC 1: 12 - 2 pm
• Revise Presentation

Meeting: 9:00-4:00pm Commerce Lab I

• CLIENT PRESENTATION
  • Win-Win: 9 - 11 am
  • TOA: tba
  • TTAC 2: tba

Meeting:

• CLIENT PRESENTATION
  • TTAC 1: 10 am - 12 pm
  • TTAC 2: 1 pm - 3 pm
• Archive Project Materials

Meeting: 10:00-12:00pm Commerce Lab

• Archive Project Materials
• Portfolio Due
• PAPER TOPIC DUE
• Congratulations!! You made it!