Week Seven

OBJECTIVES

Complete weekly blogs, add them into a word document so that they are all together and submit online to EIT on Monday 14/09/2015 before 17.00 hrs..

Start making the second interactive eBook, Wise Up, the choice is yours using Adobe InDesign.

PROJECT 

The project I have been tasked to do is for New Zealand Fire Service, in this part I shall be making an interactive eBook from the Wise up, the choice is yours booklet which the Fire Service has given me.

TASKS

Create a sixteen page document using Adobe InDesign

Insert text boxes

Insert text

Insert graphics

Insert page number

Insert colour

Insert shapes

DAILY LOG

Monday

Opened a word document, formatted it (looked at a past document for progress report from Project Management course) and then opened up week one of my blog. I formatted the blog to match the headings on my Word document (wish I had thought to do this on week one as it would have been so much easier) and added more details (still not enough apparently - finding this so hard to do BUT I will add more details during the weekend). Once I had formatted week one I copied the text and added it into the Progress Report (Word document) and then I had to highlight the text I had just copied and format that to match the font and layout. I then proceeded to do this for the following six weeks worth of blogs and it took all day (especially as I was looking back over my notes to see if there was extra things I could write about.

Tuesday

This week in eBusiness we helped a fellow international student with her assignment (assignment two) instead of having our lecture. This really helped me to understand what I have to do as well so I really appreciated the lesson. The class formed four different groups and each group wrote their ideas on a large sheet of paper - these were placed round the classroom and each group talked about their ideas (a good brainstorming session). It helped to show the whole class how to promote a company using eBuiness and some of the aspects you need to think about when doing this. The four sections that were covered were:

• Mission Statement (including B2B, B2C, stand along etc)
• Keywords Generated
• Budget (Daily) - No of campaigns
• Impressions and CTR
• Advertising

Wednesday

Continued reading the books that I got from EIT library for the research project and I did some searching on the internet. You have to be so specific in what you write as 

Thursday

To be added
eBusiness - made pages on fb, twitter and linkedin - write up about these and how much fun it was now I know what I am doing after Tuesdays lesson. Spoke to another student who knows about Google Adware and he talked me through that and about click rates and what that means (maybe explain abit about this later)

Friday

Today I concentrated on my research topic as I feel as if I am behind and should already have something written down (saw and spoke to Kathryn and Emry who both said I was fine where I was up to - relief on that one). Still I managed to do some research on-line.  which was good. I logged on and looked in Google Scholar writing first the words "Jakob Nielsen Usability Criteria". This gave me a good starting base and I looked at various sites and wrote some notes. I also did screen shots of the results.

As I can not add these I have added a link to one of the result pages.
https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=jakob%20nielsen%20usability%20criteria 

I also did searches using the words 'Interactive eBook software usability criteria', 'Criteria for evaluating eBook creator', 'Creating interactive eBooks' and 'Evaluating eBook development software'. This gave me a broad range of what I required and will give me a good bases of what to look at and read to start writing about my special topic (Interactive eBooks).


PROBLEMS

Blog formatting
Keeping detailed records of daily tasks.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Decide a format one the first blog and copy and paste into a draft copy before using in other blogs.
Write down each day in the blog what has been achieved.

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

STATUS OF PROJECT

The objectives for this week were to start the second interactive eBook, Wise up, the choice is yours within Adobe InDesign. This was achieved using all the tasks stated above.

REFLECTION ON ISSUES

I wish I had formatted the blog posts to be under the same heading each week then I would not have had to spend the whole day doing this. Saying that I was pleased with the results but wish I had more time to add a summary of what I had achieved to-date. After doing this it was easier to copy and paste into the word document ready for submission.