Final Project Guidelines

Good morning and happy monday!
We’ve talked in class about expectations for the final project, but here is a checklist for your group to use.

As you know, our final project is a multimedia companion to Year of the Flood. We have our site set up at http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/yotf/. You have all been invited to the site and can start contributing to it now.

Each group is responsible for a few things:

• A well thought out subsection of the site that represents information in your area
• Multimedia work that represents your approach and/or analysis. In some groups, individuals are making their own pieces and in others, this work is being done collaboratively. Either is fine, but clearly indicate on the work who is responsible for it!
• While our focus here is multimedia, you should have enough writing to guide site visitors through your work, and to give it context. Think of someone who has never read the book, and what they needs to make sense of what they are encountering on the site.
• Each group member should have a short reflective essay on the final site that talks about the multimedia work you did and your experience translating your understanding of the novel into a digital format.
• Each group should have a short, polished contribution to the Wikipedia page on Year of the Flood.

The end of the semester is creeping up, and we have the holiday this week. But I would like to hold a conference with each group–in person or via Google Hangout–sometime before December 3. Please be in touch before Thanksgiving so we can figure out a time that works.