A behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into the Rich Media Projects sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Friday, December 19, 2003
NOTE: This blog will be on hiatus while I make the trek to Indiana for the holidays.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Modified display of comparative theologies so that topics are columns rather than rows.
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Thinker: Refinements to divided attention demo. Began work on Stroop effect demo.
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Thursday, December 18, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Wrote the scripts to display comparative theologies.
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BibleDudes: Uploading files to new webhost and reconfiguring scripts accordingly. BibleDudes.com is now live!
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Thinker: Met with Elliott Hammer; reviewed divided attention demo. Elliott will get list of words to me soon.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl. Discussed ideas for a Jeapordy-style interactive game; tabled for now. Created new table for theological perspectives of various people or works of the reformation.
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BibleDudes: Met with Michael Homan. We initiated a two-year hosting contract with iPowerWeb.com.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Kids To Afrika: Fine-tuning the new website. Everything seems to be working now. It's at http://www.KidsToAfrika.org/
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Thinker: Completed divided attention demo.
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Monday, December 15, 2003
Thinker: Continuing work on divided attention demo.
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Friday, December 12, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl. Implemented "Women of the Reformation" feature.
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BibleDudes: Met with Michael Homan. We created a map graphic, completing the "Bible" section. We discussed plans for the next section, "Biblical Studies," including an interactive archeology map of sorts (not sure exactly what to call it).
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Thinker: Continuing work on divided attention demo.
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Thursday, December 11, 2003
Thinker: Refined viewer-centered perception demo. Contined work on divided attention demo. Updated change blindness demo with text from Elliott Hammer. Met with Elliott to discuss progress on the site. We decided to go with a time limit of approximately ten seconds for the divided attention demo.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Kids to Afrika: Synchronizing files on new webhost with files on my Mac.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Kids to Afrika: Registered kidstoafrika.org.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented aliasing function to display names of reformation movements with greater flexibility. ("Pre- Reformation" now appears as "Reformation Happens" thoughout the site.)
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Monday, December 08, 2003
Kids to Afrika: Uploaded files to new webhost.
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Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented the scripting necessary to display images for events.
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Saturday, December 06, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented the scripting necessary to display factors and to link factors to appropriate movements. Created a lookup table linking events to images.
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Friday, December 05, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Implemented the scripting necessary to display critiques and to link critiques to appropriate people, movements, and works pages. Created a factors table, and a lookup table linking this to images. Tweaked the stylesheet to improve legibility of lengthier texts.
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Thursday, December 04, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Created a critiques table, and a lookup table linking this to people. Refined the display of events to sort in proper chronological order. Reworked the display of movements across the site to list the "Pre-Reformation" first.
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Thinker: Met with Elliott Hammer. We reviewed updates to a few demos and discussed the next section, for which Elliott has completed the text.
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Kids to Afrika: Met with Debra Harley. We discussed her trip to Ghana and transferred photos from the digital camera to her laptop.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Met with Mark Gstohl. We reviewed recent changes to the site, and he helped refresh my memory about the critiques table, which will be implemented next. Mark also requested a bibliography table but asked that we hold off until January for that. We discussed the need to tweak the style sheet for more legible display of long texts. We made plans for adding the "pre-reformation" as a fifth movement (of sorts). We also agreed to implement a factors table.
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Thinker: Updated change blindness demo to iterate through four cycles rather than five. Finished inferotemporal cortex portion of brain map.
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Kids to Afrika: I asked Michelle Falgoust (our Administrative Assistant) to pursue the matter of getting Globat added to the Xavier database of vendors, in anticipation of requistioning webhosting services from them.
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Readings: Resubmitted request for media server. This time it went to Yamlak Tsega. Hopefully, the third time will be the proverbial charm.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Created a table for detailed explanations of events and a script to display these explanations; installed links to these explanations from the various timeline views (standard, comparative, and yearly). Created a basic home page.
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Monday, December 01, 2003
Theological Perspectives of the Reformation: Pictures and descriptions now appear on the movement pages. Created a table for links and a script to display them.
