Sept. 22 Homework Session 3, Theory and Practice of Interactivity

 Read 

▪   Shedroff, Nathan, Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design. Available in Pdf on ADI, in the Contents section. (This is a challenging text. Read it without distractions.)

Exercise 3

Exercise 3: Research and analysis of different forms of interactivity (work in pairs).

1. Download this document and share the document with your partner.

2. Fill out the form, using Shedroff's definitions of each different type of activity as your guide. Include a comment on why you chose each example. (This powerpoint will help guide you with examples of each of the types of interactivity.)

3. It is best if you have 18 different examples: that is, don't use Facebook as an example for each of the six different types of social media interactivity, although you could. Don't use Google as an example for all six types of web activity, although you could. Find others.

4. Upload the completed form to ADI in Exercise 3. Due Friday Sept. 25.

Blog post 3, finish by Friday 25: Profile a prominent figure in the area of your topic

Each team member of the team will profile a different person who is prominent in the field. (It could be a persona; that is a person who adopts a pseudonym. "Prominent" is a relative term; the person should have some kind of a reputation in the field, either positive or negative.

Blog post 4, finish by Friday Oct. 2: How social media cover the topic

Each team member will search social media for people and organizations that regularly post material about the team's topic. Identify the ones that are most useful and interesting to you and write a few sentences on why each of them is relevant to your topic. Search using hashtags or other indicators to help find material. 

Blog post 5, finish by Friday Oct. 9: The best material posted on your topic in the past 12 months

Each member of the team will list several examples of what they think was the best work on your topic in the past 6 months, and why you chose them.

Blog post 6, finish by Friday Oct. 16: Collect all 5 of your links, and reflect on blogging

Each member of the team will put links to all five of their blog posts on one blog entry and then write about their experience of blogging.