Session 4: Content

Description of Material and Activities Covered in Session 4

Reading

 

Mini-Lecture

 

In-class exercise: Persona

Working as a group, write a description (200-500 words) of a person who could be a target of the website for Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County (http://www.habitat-for-humanity.org/). Each group will describe someone from a different audience. Sample Persona.

Start by having each person in the group write down a few ideas of ways to describe the person. Don't worry about being inclusive; the person has to be either male or female, for example. Don't worry about creating a statistically perfect model user. You're just trying to describe one potential website visitor.

Feel free to include a few irrelevant details to spice things up. 

Here are a few questions you may want to consider:

After you finish, designate one person to submit your "persona" as an MS Word .doc file.

 

Project Work: Web Site Review and Blog

Citation: Clark, G. C. (2007, November 13). Session 4: Content. Retrieved May 20, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/computer-applications/applied-multimedia-technology/sessions/session-4-persona.
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