FINAL PROJECT
A tourism website has been commissioned to attract tourist to our country. The theme of the website is "Promotes Tourism – Malaysia Holiday Destination". You are to create this website using the necessary web tools available to you and to be submitted at the end of the semester.
Each member of the groups is responsible to contribute their knowledge by promoting Malaysia’s tourism.
There are several topics to choose from:
1) Island
2) State
3) Culture and Heritage
4) Food
5) Adventure
6) Shopping
7) others – please let me know.
Each tutorial group will select one of the above and all members in that tutorial group will form teams to create an original website based on the topic above.
For example,
If tutorial group A chose Islands, all the members in tutorial group A will form teams to develop a website on a particular island eg Langkawi Island, Redang, Penang etc.
Each tutorial group shall form individual teams of 4-5 persons and there should be a group leader in each team.
The group leader from each team will then select a Tutorial Group Leader who will be in-charge to organise the entire tutorial group.
Since there are forty students in each tutorial group, there should be about 8-10 teams of 4-5 persons which means there will be 8-10 team leaders.
Since there are 6 tutorials groups, there will be six tutorial group Project leaders.
Next, from these 6 tutorial groups Project Leaders, 1 Project Manager shall be chosen to oversee the entire class of six tutorial groups.
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Team-level:
Project teams:
You are to design a web-based application on your research on the theme "Promote Tourism – Malaysia Holiday Destination". This application must be media-rich and multimedia-oriented. The application should highlight the various aspects of Malaysian tourism destinations that you choose and should do so with appealing design, interface and content. The application must be accompanied with a group "Making Of" which contains individual member's ideas and development process of their area of responsibility. The process must be documented in the individual blogs.
Project approach:
- The group must consist of 4-5 members only. Each member of the group must elect a Team Leader.
- The Team Leader and the members must cooperate with each other and will be held responsible for developing the overall direction of the Final Application
- The Final application will be a collection of individual web-sites on various aspects of Malaysian tourism developed by each member of the team based on the theme.
- The Team Leader will be responsible to make sure that Group objectives are achieved and that their group's applications are multimedia-based and creatively designed.
- The group meetings must be held after class times and attendance of all members is compulsory. Failure to attend meetings must be approved by Team Leader and Lecturer (me). MCs to be submitted by the next class time or members will be marked ABSENT.
Significant dates | Methods of submission | |
Initial Proposal | Week 4 | Written in Blogs |
Work – progress check | Week 8 | Work-in-progress materials in blogs |
Submission of Final Application and Final Project Reports | Week 13 | CD, printed blog reports & individual reports |
In EACH OF THE Team BLOGS must contain:
- Names of members, Group name, Team Leader of the group
- The objective of your web site
- A brief description on the idea or topic that will be developed and reason.
- Demographics of the end-user/target audience profile. Students MUST find some characteristics of the demographics that is to be the target audience. Please indicate the reference on where that these characteristics were found.
- For example: If using target users of 20-25 years old, the group must find defining characteristics of this group of users that will influence the design or development of the interactive multimedia application.
- Number of sub-topics that will be discussed and which group member will be responsible for which area or sub-topic. .
- Initial design idea like the type of metaphors used through the application.
Part 1: Work in progress (Week 8)
Report 1: This report in the group blogs should contain:
- The proposed topic (research information & URLs) and concept
- Name of group, members and team leader (finalised)
- Concept/Theme of project/ Objective
- Division of tasks (who is doing what)
- Milestones achieved and those yet to be completed
- Group meetings/discussions / Yahoo meetings conducted (what was discussed, problems, ideas)
Since each member of the group shall be responsible for a link in the group web site, the blogs should also contain:
- Description on the individual ideation of the link
- Objective of the link
- Design of GUI (see below)
- Flowchart of the individual site (see below)
- Use of tools in Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash
- References
- Screen shot of final output
GUI Design
Individuals are to design various Graphical User Interface for the project. All designs must be original. You are allowed to use other GUI as reference only NOT AS IS. Please show the potential designs for the each of the subtopic. Members are to be responsible for their own areas in the application.
Therefore, each member has to design his or her own design for that particular section or topic or area in the application. You will be evaluated individually on this. However, the design of each section or topic must seemed to be related to each other and coherent to the application.
All the designs and potential designs of each member along with descriptions or comments must be shown
Flowchart
A flow chart must be design to indicate how the end-user goes from one area of the application to another. There must be an illustration of the overall interactive flow of the website (Group work) and individual area or subtopic interactive flow (individual links).
In other words, there overall flow chart of the application will indicate the overall interactive charting of the website while the individual flow chart will show the interactive flow of the individual sub-topic or link in the web site.
All the flowcharts with descriptions or comments must be shown.
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TUTORIAL GROUP LEVEL
Each Tutorial Group Leader will also be in-charge in setting up a Tutorial Blog that lists all the teams within the tutorial and the area of tourism that the tutorial group will be focusing on.
There shall be a brief description of the tutorial group’s focus.
The job of the Tutorial Group Leader is to organise the tutorial group and assign someone to produce one GUI that links to all the other teams’ website.
For example,
Tutorial Group A chose Islands. The individual teams focus on Penang Island, Langkawi Island, Redang Island etc.
The tutorial group will now create a GUI that describes all the islands in Malaysia that is famous for tourism. The GUI will link all the individual teams’ websites to create one big “Islands of Malaysia” website.
PROJECT MANAGER LEVEL
The Project manager will be chosen from the Tutorial Group Leader. This person will be in-charge of all the tutorials or the whole class.
The role of this project manager is to manage all the tutorial group leaders.
Also, assign responsibility to someone who will create the final GUI for “The Malaysian Tourism” website. This website will contain the following:
- A description about Malaysia
- Areas and links about areas in Malaysian tourism.
In other words, this website / GUI will link to all the related areas of the project. All the tutorials focus area will be linked to this GUI to create ONE BIG WEBSITE containing information about Malaysian tourism.
Part 2: Submission of Final Application & Final Project Reports (Week 13)
To be submitted to Dr. Ken Neo in Week 13 during the lecture session with blog entries containing full-documentations.
1) The CD Submission
For the Final Application, there should be ONE CD containing:
- The Final Website (The Malaysian Tourism) with all the various topics properly linked.
For the Final submission, the Project Manager will submit the following one ONE CD or DVD containing:
- The main website (The Malaysian Tourism Website) with links to all the other related areas (Island, Food, Shopping etc) which are linked to the individual teams websites (within Islands of Malaysia site, there are Langkawi Island, Penang Island, Redang Island and so on).
- 1 index.html file as the main page with all the links to each member’s webpage.
- A link to each member's web page.
- All links must be working. The group members must make sure of this.
- All source files used for the application
2) The final reports in printed form and bound (print direct from your blogs)
(A) This FINAL Group Report should include information from Part 1 with updates since submission and the following (in bold):
- The proposed topic (research information & URLs) and concept
- Name of group, members and group leader (finalised)
- Concept/Theme of project/ Objective
- Division of tasks (who is doing what)
- Milestones achieved and those yet to be completed
- URL of the members blogs
- Group meetings/discussions / Yahoo meetings conducted (what was discussed, problems, ideas)
(B) Individual reports by each member (include group leader) – softcopy and hard copy
- How is your understanding of the topic after doing the project? Understanding about digital media?
- What were the problems faced during the project? How did you/your team solve your group problems?
- What would you do differently next time?
- How is your motivation level?
- How was working with your group, team leader, tutorial group leader and Project Manager?
- How was it working on the project?
- Update on what you have been writing previously
- How were your teammates & team leader?
- Personal evaluation of your own effort and that of your team
