Project 3: Client Service Learning

For Project 3, we will be working with a client organization to revise its website. Class members will work in small groups each comprising three or four members. Each group will produce a revised website, but only one will be selected and used by the organization. Only the group whose website is selected by the client will receive full credit for the "final website" grade component. All groups will remit their master website files to the instructor. The selected group will provide assistance to get its design up and running on the client's server, but the group is not expected to provide continuing support. The groups are as follows:

Group 1 wiki
Group 1 chatroom		 Group 2 wiki
Group 2 chatroom		 Group 3 wiki
Group 3 chatroom		 Group 4 wiki
Group 4 chatroom		 Group 5 wiki
Group 5 chatroom
Daniel Bortnick Acacia Wood Brian Williams Brent Brewington Adam Strantz
David Ayodele Aris Aurellano Jose Salazar Dan Paulat Julie Jansen
Markus Horstmeyer Brian Otten Julianne Fabian Jason Ortiz Kyle Wiedman
Michael Mann Sarah Wilson Ruben Sethi Ramsey Saba

To produce their websites, groups will do rhetorical research through course readings and activities. Groups will also use specifications and feedback from the organization's contact.

At the end of the project, each group member will complete a postmortem that evaluates the contributions of the various group members, including himself or herself. The group's postmortems will be the basis for each student's "individual postmortem" grade component.

Project Deliverables:
  • design plan
  • final website
  • individual postmortem
Due Dates:
  • draft design plan 11/1
  • revised design plan 11/20
  • draft website 11/20
  • final design plan 12/6
  • final website 12/6
  • individual Project 3 postmortem 12/7
Grading:
Breakdown
  • design plan = 10%
  • final website = 80% (only the group whose site is selected will receive full credit for this component)
  • postmortem = 10% (formed from a student's average numerical score on his or her group's postmortems)
Rubrics
Excellent Design Plans will:
  • explicate the goals of the website and how it achieves them
  • demonstrate analysis of the website's audience, context, purpose, strategies, medium, and arrangement
  • be in a concise, professional, polished format appropriate to the audience and situation
  • display grammar and mechanics appropriate to situation
Excellent websites will:
  • be made according to the specifications of the organization
  • respond to feedback provided by the organization's contact person
  • target a specific audience for a specific purpose
  • have a functional and useable navigational structure
  • have a consistent, appealing visual style
  • be thoroughly professional and polished

The postmortem grade is formed from the average of a person's evaluation scores.

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