Reading for Week 3, and Exercise 3, Interactivity
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▪ Shedroff, Nathan, Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design. Available in Pdf on ADI, in the Contents section.
Exercise 3
Exercise 3: Research and analysis of different forms of interactivity (work in pairs).
1. Download this document and share the document with your partner.
2. Fill out the form, using Shedroff's definitions of each different type of activity as your guide. Include a comment on why you chose each example. (This powerpoint will help guide you with examples of each of the types of interactivity.)
3. It is best if you have 18 different examples: that is, don't use Facebook as an example for each of the six different types of social media interactivity, although you could. Don't use Google as an example for all six types of web activity, although you could. Find others.
4. Upload the completed form to ADI in Exercise 3. Due Friday Sept. 21.
Blog post 2, due Friday Sept. 21: A relevant case study
Each member of your team should research and write about a an event, a place, a thing, a controversy, a historical period, or some other topic related to the topic of the blog. If your blog topic were, for example, photography, maybe you would write about photo coverage of an event, or a particular type of new technology in the field, or a recent event in the field that was notable, or about a new product, or a relevant historical moment, or something else related.
Blog post 3, due Friday Sept. 28: Main online sources and references for your blog topic
Each member of your team will write a blog post that lists at least five online sources that you use for researching your topic, and why you consider each source useful, relevant, inspiring, and so forth. Try not to duplicate all the same sources other team members use. Each team member should look for some different sources. (Some duplication is inevitable.)
Blog post 4, due Friday Oct. 5: Profile a prominent figure in the area of your topic
Each team member of the team will profile a different person who is prominent in the field. (It could be a persona; that is a person who adopts a pseudonym. "Prominent" is a relative term; the person should have some kind of a reputation in the field, either positive or negative.
Blog post 5, due Friday Oct. 12: How social media cover the topic
Each team member will search social media for people and organizations that regularly post material about the team's topic. Identify the ones that are most useful and interesting to you and write a few sentences on why each of them is relevant to your topic. Search using hashtags or other indicators to help find material.
Blog post 6, due Friday Oct. 19: The best material posted on your topic in the past 12 months
Each member of the team will list several examples of what they think was the best work on your topic in the past 6 months, and why you chose them.
Blog post 7, due Friday Oct. 26: Collect all 6 of your links, and reflect on blogging
Each member of the team will put links to all six of their blog posts on one blog entry and then write about their experience of blogging.
▪ Shedroff, Nathan, Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design. Available in Pdf on ADI, in the Contents section.
Exercise 3
Exercise 3: Research and analysis of different forms of interactivity (work in pairs).
1. Download this document and share the document with your partner.
2. Fill out the form, using Shedroff's definitions of each different type of activity as your guide. Include a comment on why you chose each example. (This powerpoint will help guide you with examples of each of the types of interactivity.)
3. It is best if you have 18 different examples: that is, don't use Facebook as an example for each of the six different types of social media interactivity, although you could. Don't use Google as an example for all six types of web activity, although you could. Find others.
4. Upload the completed form to ADI in Exercise 3. Due Friday Sept. 21.
Blog post 2, due Friday Sept. 21: A relevant case study
Each member of your team should research and write about a an event, a place, a thing, a controversy, a historical period, or some other topic related to the topic of the blog. If your blog topic were, for example, photography, maybe you would write about photo coverage of an event, or a particular type of new technology in the field, or a recent event in the field that was notable, or about a new product, or a relevant historical moment, or something else related.
Blog post 3, due Friday Sept. 28: Main online sources and references for your blog topic
Each member of your team will write a blog post that lists at least five online sources that you use for researching your topic, and why you consider each source useful, relevant, inspiring, and so forth. Try not to duplicate all the same sources other team members use. Each team member should look for some different sources. (Some duplication is inevitable.)
Blog post 4, due Friday Oct. 5: Profile a prominent figure in the area of your topic
Each team member of the team will profile a different person who is prominent in the field. (It could be a persona; that is a person who adopts a pseudonym. "Prominent" is a relative term; the person should have some kind of a reputation in the field, either positive or negative.
Blog post 5, due Friday Oct. 12: How social media cover the topic
Each team member will search social media for people and organizations that regularly post material about the team's topic. Identify the ones that are most useful and interesting to you and write a few sentences on why each of them is relevant to your topic. Search using hashtags or other indicators to help find material.
Blog post 6, due Friday Oct. 19: The best material posted on your topic in the past 12 months
Blog post 7, due Friday Oct. 26: Collect all 6 of your links, and reflect on blogging
Each member of the team will put links to all six of their blog posts on one blog entry and then write about their experience of blogging.
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