Developing your site

1. Remember your audience

Rather than simply being an online essay (i.e. an academic exercise, which is only useful for the purposes of demonstrating your achievement of the intended learning outcomes for the module), this assignment is designed to generate a publicly-available product demonstrating and evaluating your intervention. Consequently, you will want to consider how to present as much information as possible about your intervention, as clearly and concisely as possible.

 

I have installed a plugin on your site, called Simple History, which keeps a record of all log-ins and activities on the site. Although this should not make a huge difference to your final mark, it will allow the module team to provide further individual feedback on your teamworking skills, and to  demonstrate this to the External Examiner.

2. Teamwork is vital

Although each student will be marked individually, only one website is to be created per intervention. Consequently, it is important to ensure that you plan exactly how labour is to be divided between you, with regard to:

• The design of the intervention itself;
• The evaluation of the intervention (based, if possible, on a ‘pilot’ exercise, and feedback from others); and
• The design and content of the website that presents the intervention to a wider audience.

 

3. Key questions to consider in planning your site structure

I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child.

These six ‘prompt questions’ are a useful means of reflecting on the requirements of any assignment task. In the sub-pages of this section, I will suggest how you might use these questions in planning both the design of your intervention and the structure and content of your web-space.