BA271 Week 4 Lecture

Goals for today… Draft Wiki Ideas

Making contributions to a public wikiDocumenting and selling what you have done in your MyTalk page

Website Project IdeasBasic vs. Final WebsitePublishing your Website

Activities you should do Required:

Write your Draft Wiki contributions by this Friday at noon

Update your MyTalk page with a list of Individual Contributions

Continue to provide advice and comments to the three people you are mentoring

Basic vs. Final Website Basic website:

Good first draft effort Does not need photos page or customized

feedback form Must be published at proper network

locations (and therefore the proper web address)

Will be used as the basis for a peer review activity

Peer Review Each student will look

at three other websites and evaluate their quality.

You will prepare a series of PowerPoint slide with your conclusions similar to the slide to the right …

Website Peer Reviews

By Dave Sullivan

Final Website

Final website: Hopefully will benefit from the ideas that

come from your peer review Should contain your best, finished ideas Will be graded subjectively by your

instructor based on writing quality, content, style, and creativity.

Publishing your website Development location:

\\cob-storage\studentpdata\userid\classwork\ba271\website

Published location: \\cob-storage\studentwebdata\userid\website Also will be available at: http://students.bus.oregonstate.edu/userid/we

bsite ONID website location (optional):

Publish by logging into ONID and using ftp://ftp.onid.orst.edu/public_html/

Which makes files available at http://oregonstate.edu/~userid

Website Project Requirements

At least 750 original words. Goals page: Needs a set of goals to explain

the website’s intend audience and effect Sources page: An annotated bibliography to

explain what you did versus what you copied from elsewhere

Photos page: Should contain at least one image that you transferred to a digital format yourself.

Feedback form: Should collect data relevant to your website.

Creating websites people will visit

Overall idea: Should be creative … thus, your website should look original.

Good design vs. bad design Sample 1: Samba Communications Sample 2: A local band

Sample websites from last term

Thinking about borders Nearly all websites use a logo or

graphic in a top shared border Some sample websites

www.sullishak.com www.allen-house.com www.buy.com

Activities you should do Required:

Build a basic website by this Friday at noon

Enter website goals and annotated bibliography

Suggested: Scan photos, construct a logo, and build a

photos page Build a customized feedback form Construct a customized logo for your

website with a paint or draw program