Thursday, July 19, 2007

Tony's proj spec

Video Podcast Animated News Report
Here is an image of a Metrics "Dashboard" website that I'm in the process of building. The site will be used by NU leadership and co-op program advisors to monitor and manage program-performance. In the right column is a scrollable list of "Key Indicators". These are summary-performance statistics (ex. how many students are placed in co-op jobs, how many jobs are available, what types of experiential assignments are being completed, etc.). My project will be to 1) integrate video podcast subscription functionality into the site and to 2) produce a 60-second prototype video podcast of the key indicators. My hope is to produce the "Key Indicator" report using computer animation in the style of a Financial News Network Stock Market Update. Since such a report will have to be updated about once a month, my ultimate goal is to identify best practices for producing the video podcast routinely as an animation, and distributing it as a podcast via the dashboard site.
Please comment on the scope and suitability of this project idea.




























1 comment:

Ravi said...

Anthony -- I think this could work out well, but maybe you can enhance some aspect (even if not within this project spec) for the sake of our class explorations.

Integration of new media/forms into existing structures is a real-world issue -- I just want to make sure that your project is "meaty" enough!