Category: Assignment – Q&Ocean

Assignment Overview

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Project Title

Q&Ocean

Overview

The concept of my project started out with the idea of providing resources for schools that were both engaging for students and informative. With this goal in mind I decided to create a free accessible website for both students and teachers, that will allow teachers to create online classrooms that the students are able to join, where the class is able to all individually answer questions chosen by the teacher and then look at the results together through the teacher’s screen. Showing the results in a poll allows for classroom discussion on why the students believe the highest answer may have been chosen, leading on from this the teacher is then able to click through to show an in-depth explanation of the correct answer.

My approach to this project was to focus on creating an interesting way to allow for students to learn about ocean pollution and learn how they can within their personal lives, reduce their impact.

Intended/Target Audience

This interactive website I am designing is being made for the use of high schoolers and high school teachers. It is to be used in a classroom setting.

Aims

  • Provide an engaging classroom activity that encourages discussion.
  • Educate a younger generation about water pollution.
  • Provide useful resources and information in an easy to digest format.
  • Teach the user about their personal impact on water pollution.
  • Encourages young people to help make a change in their personal lives.

Personas

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Sandra Wyles – Assignment persona and mood board

User Scenario – Sandra Wyles

Sandra is a high school teacher who became passionate about water pollution and protecting the ocean ever since she had joined an activist club in university, she wants her future children to grow up in a world with a clean ocean and marine life to experience and appreciate. She’s always looking for engaging ways to educate her geography classes so the future generations understand their impact and how this issue personally relates to them. Her research leads to a website full of poll questions that can be answered in an online ‘room’ so students are able to see other students answers through the teacher’s computer, this makes an environment that allows the students to actually consider and discuss how their actions personally effect the water pollution levels. Sandra likes this website because it allows for students to discuss their opinions and when the teacher chooses to reveal it the website gives back a response on how much their actions actually effect the ocean and leads to further resources where students can continue to learn more.

Miles Waverly – Secondary Persona