Kara Martinez's Final Picture Book

Attached is a link to my final picture book. For some reason when I converted them to .jpg to post on the blog, it made the border white, and changed the color of the purple background. So, I just decided to provide a link as opposed to taking screenshots of all the pages. Thank you Rob for your recommendations. I incorporated them all! I also worked alongside my supervisor as she is looking for another GA to fill my position and felt this would be extremely beneficial for the new GA.

Link: http://karamartinez.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/9/1/24915554/the_graduate_assistant_experience_at_the_office_of_admissions_final_k_martinez_4-18.pdf

Rob Morgan Picture Book Final Draft

Christy's Website Draft

For this final project, I decided to continue with the theme I've been using throughout the semester--the Educational Leadership Program. The program director confirmed that he would appreciate a website that could provide more information than is typically offered on the JMU page. For the UI project, I designed an updated layout to provide the basic program information on the JMU site, in hopes that the editor of the COE websitecan incorporate these changes into the existing pages. I am creating a whole new site, using Wix, for this project. I plan to add a QR code to the poster, brochure, and UI layout that directs viewers to this more customized source of information, program news, and related documents.
Keep in mind that this is a very rough draft. I have used placeholder text for many components. My main concern is that I am creating all the images, but I want to ensure that the final product looks professional. I decided to create my images so that I keep a consistent set of images to match the graphic style of the logo, which is a central element to the site. I also don't have the opportunity to take actual photos, because the spring term has already ended for these students (that's cool, huh?).

Here is the link:
http://leamancr11.wix.com/edleadership

I've never used Wix before, and although I like it a lot, I am still trying to figure out how to change my web address. I don't want my gmail account (username for Wix) to be at the beginning! Anyone have any ideas?

Lauren Manual Draft

I struggled with deciding what to do but thought it would be interesting to try to make a "training manual" for cheer stunts.  I am about to go back to coach my high school's team so I have been thinking about it recently...
So it's a training manual and this would just be three sections of it. Here are the first couple pages.  I have a story board for the rest but it is pretty much these pages repeated with different information.  The only thing I am still working on is editing the images.

Amanda Loeser's website draft

Website: amandaloeser.weebly.com

So I've had this website for a while now but feel like I can always add or change some things around. The main thing I am struggling with is my icons for my artifacts. Because this is a visual literacy class, I really want to have pictures for my icons but realized that not all people will know what each icon represent. I then wanted to have words underneath the pictured icons and struggled for a bit until I realized their was a caption icon! That was super exciting. I think it looks better, but needs something to add some consistency, so...
--should I have a border around all the icons.. maybe in the same color as the rest of the website? or black? I feel like the ones with a white background definitely need a border of some kind..
-> this has been by far the hardest part to figure out
Also, this may not seem like a hugeee deal, but one thing that I was able to make symbols out of were my "next" and "back" buttons on all of my different artifacts pages. I made them into arrows which I think is better. This also took some time because I had to create those buttons in word since I could not type in an arrow straight to the website and then relink everything to the proper page.
--- Is there anything else that could be maybe changed into a picture or somewhere I can place another symbol of some sort?
--Another thing I wonder is whether I should have a separate page up top titled "resume"? I have it on my first page as a button to click to, but wonder if it should be up top as well?
--Again with my homepage is the placement of my name. My name should be on it somewhere, but I'm not exactly sure where.. should it be where "Future Middle Educator" is OR maybe on top of my picture OR keep it where it is?
Let me know of any and all advice you guys have for me!!

Again, my website is amandaloeser.weebly.com

Jen's Graphic Novel Draft

Boy, this assignment has been really hard.  I couldn't really figure out for a while what I wanted to do.  I'm not currently working, so no training manual.  I already have websites created for the areas in my life that need them.  So, picture book it was.  However, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I wanted to do.  Then, it hit me.

Every summer from 5th grade to 12th grade, I attended a camp called Nature Camp in Vesuvius, Virginia.  In college, I worked there for four years.  Well, during each session, a ghost story called Percy is told around the campfire.  It's a wonderful story that works in a lot of the lore, people, and natural areas surrounding camp.  It's scary and delightfully fun!  I decided that this story would be really fun to turn into a graphic novel.

However, it had been over 15 years since I heard the story.  So, I went about contacting all my friends from camp, some who still work there, hoping to find a recorded or written version.  I knew that Colonel Reeves, the old camp director, had at one point recorded a version.  Well unfortunately, the new director finally got back to me and told me that the tape had disappeared many years ago.  Since then, the story has just been passed on orally.  So then, I set about contacting members of the staff from the last few summers hoping that someone could help me.  I spent a good portion of the last two weeks, just tracking down this story and almost decided to do something else.  However, everyone I spoke with thought it was such a good idea and so wanted a copy, that I felt I couldn't give up.

I finally found a staff member who can record the story for me, except he can't do it until tomorrow evening.  So, I know I don't have much yet for this rough draft.   I remember enough of the story that I could at least begin the illustrations.  My idea is to use my photographs (mostly mine, a few from friends, and a few creative commons) and cartoonify them for the graphic novel.  This is what I have thus far.  I plan to continue tweaking and working this week.  Hopefully, this will come together!  My fingers are mightily crossed!

Erin Murphy website DRAFT

Here is a google sites rough draft of my website.  I am planning to add more pages, like a team page and policies page. 

The purpose of my website will be to connect students, parents and teacher together with the classroom policies and information throughout the year. 


https://sites.google.com/site/msmurphyssite/

Mariya's Picture Book Draft

I decided to do a picture book for this assignment. Below is my very rough draft! Yes, the majority of it is in black, white, and shades of gray (with occasional pops of color). This is because this book is intended to help young children and even adults understand what it feels like to be have a rare form of color blindness. I have a young cousin who described her condition to me and she explained that this was not a condition she was born with. She was very sad that this occurred very suddenly. All she saw was variations of black and white when she woke up one day. The black and white frame is intended to be the glasses frame that the child has on and the picture is what he/she sees through it. The glasses are placed on the page so that when you open the book, you are able to see it like a pair of glasses.


Here are some questions I would really appreciate some feedback on:

1. Should the black and white glasses frame be on every page? (For consistency)
2. Should there be more color added?
3. Is the text hard to read? Should I make it a different text type that is easier to read?


Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Mariya