Agenda – Week 10, Day 2 Where we’ve 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

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!

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

Formative Evaluation - What Formative evaluation refers to evaluation conducted for the purpose of informing continuing design efforts. Figuratively, “When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative; when the guests taste the soup, that’s summative.”

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

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.

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.

Debrief from Evaluation Team Discussion What did you learn about your design? What changes? Class Discussion What did you learn about evaluation?

Debrief from Evaluation (2) Professional portfolio evaluation criteria Award categories for open house: Five grading categories Five student determined categories One “best in show”

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!

A reflective moment before… Completing the course evaluations Embarking on last big assignment Tuesday’s open house

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

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

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

Some things I’ve 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 …

The best class yet… Amazing amount of creativity Impressive stamina Admirable attitudes Resourcefulness Dedication Reflectiveness Quick learners Successful Professionals!