1. The Process Journal
All through the design cycle you need to analyse what you are doing. You do this in your
process journal. The process journal is like a diary that
you must keep all through a technology project. It could
“To Analyse”: to think be completed as a diary on your laptop and photos or
carefully and try to sketches inserted.
explain.
You will put all your rough work, thoughts and ideas into
your process journal. Sometimes you will write it in by
hand, sometimes you will type something in. Sometimes
you may find something related to what we did in the
studio, eg photograph, image or video and you can copy + paste it in your process journal. You
could even scan rough sketches and put those in as well.
What should go in the Process Journal
The Date Why?
Your journal should Explain why you do
be arranged like a things like you do. Try
diary, each time to explain in terms of
your add something the stage of the
write the date. Design Cycle.
What you did Pictures and Diagrams
This is the basic thing If you have made something and
you include in your are writing about it in your
process journal: you journal include a photo of it or a
write what you did. Print Screen (screen shot).
Changes to your plan
Explain any changes that
What next
you are making to the plans Explain how the things
you wrote. you do will lead on to
other things in the future.
Emotion
How did you feel about
what you did? Was it
satisfying? Frustrating?
Rewarding?
Areas of Interaction (AOI) and Learner Profiles
Write about what AOI’s are involved in your project. Have you thought about
AOI’s today? How ? You need to write about how this AOI area affects your
project.
Learner Profile. What is the learner profile that best suits what you did today.
Were you a Risk Taker today or a Communicator?