Week 5

Activity

This week, "The Bikini Bottoms" worked on their design document and decided on the final concept for their major project.

Experiences in the Poster & Pitch

When we demonstrated our pitch and poster, i felt that i was somewhat unprepared with my speech. There was a miscommunication with the printing of the poster as well, so everyone in the group was a little uneasy with how everything was organised. 

The poster was constructed well, but with miscommunication from the group, the poster was printed off in a pixcelated format and lacked professionalism. The tutors were unimpressed with this and marked us accordingly. 

I did the speech individually, while the group stood around me. Next time i think we are going to do the speech together, as it portrays more of a group environment instead of being individual. 

I was very nervous when i did the speech, and for some reason didn't bother reading my speech cards. This hindered my performance because it made the pitch look some what unprepared. 

Overall though, i felt that i described the concept well and was able to sell our concept. 

Next time, i hope to speak lower and read my speech cards accordingly. 

What did I learn about our concept / the project / the brief / the design process...

from the feedback received?

From the feedback received i learnt that our concept does not include enough Trove data within the application.  We need to incorporate more aspects of Trove into most of our application by thinking about where we can incorporate the more links, articles and images to the Great Barrier Reef. 

from seeing other teams’ concepts?

From seeing everyone else's concepts, i was able to see the diverse range of subjects the other students are covering and how diverse the applications were represented. 

Other teams were unable to present a well presented pitch by not talking to the audience well, but overall i thought everyone did a really good job with presenting a good concept. 

Everyone also seemed very organised with getting everything in order for the presentation. 

How have these realisations affected my/our own concepts & process since? 

From the pitch and poster assignment, i have stressed the importance of being organised to my group. We all need to be able to co-operate together as a team to get our work done. 
I feel from the feedback given that we have to come up with more ideas to incorporate into trove and work more effectively as a team. 


Our poster from this week:

Lecture:

This week we learnt about Web Application Technologies

We learnt about how we use API's to develop our application

To use Server Side Technologies we can use:

• PHP 
• Perl
• Java
• Python

For server storage we can use:

• mySQL
• SQLite 

Building a Web App:

• AJAX
• collection of other technologies including HTML/CSS. DOM, JSON and XMLHTTPRequest

I found it really good to found out what technologies we can use. In the future i hope to use some of these technologies to develop our application. 

This Week:

• i contributed to constructing the application and creating mockups for our application 
• started my website mockups