Day 6 July 11

Today our group redesigned our blog to make it more aesthetically pleasing and more user friendly. We are always trying to keep in mind that the information needs to be grouped in a way that makes sense and is accessible to our target audience. We also want to insure that it serves the many purposes for which it is intended. For example, we want it to serve as a resource that can facilitate discussion in the areas of Project Based Learning, disabilities, and assistive technology. We want the blog to show the relationship between these various areas. I feel that the remaining task analysis and Assistive Technology application piece will pull the whole thing together. Some of the videos and websites that we found today were exciting. They illuminated what is going on in the world of plastic but they also demonstrated the amazing power of the internet for research and project based learning. Another part of our day was a discussion of the possibility of using our blog as our project based Learning product. This led us to a task analysis of the complexities of the blog design process and the skills that would be required of a student who was to design one. We still have thinking and exploration to do in this area.