Begin planning your final project by answering the questions below. Doing the work here will make writing your midterm Information Plan much easier, as most of your preliminary plan can be used in the Info Plan.

Key in your answers under each question. Please attach the doc to your blog entry and also copy/paste your answers into the blog entry window so that your classmates can read your preliminary plan.

1.	What is your topic? In a few words, what content will you be communicating?  Explain why it's right-sized for this advanced but 10-week-long course.

2.	What is your goal or purpose for this communication?  And, why is this important? (Or, what is the value add of your doing this?)

3.	Who is your audience? Describe your primary and any secondary audiences--what people will you be communicating to?

4.	How do you think you will conduct your audience analysis (e.g., survey, interviews, observation, focus group...).  Please be sure to indicate how you plan on finding a sampling of your target audience to do your analysis with.

5.	Context: Where, and in what circumstances, will people be using your communication? A related question: What media do you think you'll be using?  What design elements are you considering for usability?

6.	User task analysis:  Briefly, what do you want your audience to do with your communication?  What steps do you want them to follow?

7.	What sources of content are you considering? Please be more specific than "the Internet" and include potential subject matter experts.

8.	As you research, how will or organize the information you're gathering? (Note: not how will you organize it in your project, and not 'in a binder' or 'in a file'. I am looking for some specifics that you come up with as a way of making particular types of content easy for you to find as you're working on it: folders, file naming, etc.)

9.	How will you organize your time in order to work most effectively and get the project done?  How will you track your progress? (You can repeat what you submitted for your project-tracking blog question Week 2.) If you're working as a team, how will you communicate responsibilities? In any case, how will you communicate project status and issues?

10.	What problems do you foresee, if any, in accomplishing your project and how do you plan to handle them?