Presentations and Critiques and Tweaks, Oh My!

On Friday, April 26th the three New Media Capstone projects were again presented to the panel for critiques.  The progress thus far on the Victor Campus Virtual Tour project was well received and the panel gave us a lot of great suggestions.

Afterwards I met with Heidi Marcin in the Marketing Department at FLCC and showed her the website on one of the school's iPads.  She seemed very impressed with the project at first glance.  Over the weekend, Marketing was able to really delve into the site, offer up suggestions and tweaks and Heidi got back to Paul and I via email.  It is very encouraging to note that most of the issues that she found that needed to be addressed, we had already talked about with the panel or were in process of completion!  Good news indeed!

Completed Items:

• The 360 Panoramas are working really well.
• The videos are edited and uploaded.
• The tour in general works as expected.

Items in process:

• Photo page
• 360 stand-alone page
• Links to social media and the college main site.
• Bottom "You are Here" functionality.
• 360 shoot for Conference/Multi-Purpose Room scheduled for 5/2/13 at 10am.

We are also considering adding one more video of the 3-D printer in action!  A demo is scheduled for 5/2 as well.  

We are counting down the days until our public presentation on May 10th!

The Student Work Room

Student Work Room Video

This was a really cool demonstration that we got to see on our visit to the Victor Campus.  I'm really glad that these students were here to show us what they were working on.

DreamWeaver work

We have been working diligently in DreamWeaver!  We got the tour pages to work pretty well last week.  This week - working on the different elements for the 360 panoramic rooms and making the tour text that we got from Heidi load onto the appropriate pages.  It's getting exciting and coming together nicely.

Kelsey is working on the promo video to present to the panel on Friday.  I can't wait to see it!  And John has been hard at work editing the interview videos that will be included on the site.

Here are a couple of screen shots of work in progress on the site.

HTML vs. Flash (funny!)

I thought this was funny and it's kind of where I am with this whole process.  :)
HTML5 vs. Flash

Behind the scenes video of Shooting Day in Victor!

Well done!  John shot the footage and Kelsey edited the video.  Awesome.
Behind the scenes with the New Media class!

Our Inspiration

Tour of Canandaigua Campus

I found a video tutorial that may be of use in this project: Embedding Flash buttons using DreamWeaver

I haven't tried this yet, but I am looking forward to testing it out!