What is Workflow?

Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/

“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com

What is a quality workflow?  How do we develop it?  Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something.  First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage.  Read on and find out!

INSTRUCTIONS

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should use YouTube and the internet and report what seems interesting to our classmates.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should have a padlet with a bunch of potential projects. If we want to join the project, we can add our names to the title
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • We can have our peers look at our film and grade it based on intent and purpose.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • Our classmates can measure quality.

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should use Padlet. We can have a card with our goals on it.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should add Padlet cards and maybe make blog posts explaining our goals in detail.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • Good intentions are clear
  • Can be measured
  • How much work goes into the project
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • Our classmates and Leduc can measure quality.

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should use padlet. We can use Google drive for writing down summaries. We should also use edublogs.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should establish our intentions first
  • Next we make a clear plan and schedual on padlet or edublogs.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • Our classmates measure quality
  • If our plan is clear then the quality is good.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • We should measure our own quality at first

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should use padlet
  • We could create group emails and texting for communication
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should follow the steps of our plan
  • check out equipment from capital if necessary.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • Our classmates should measure quality. Our teams can evaluate each other.
  • We can judge if we accomplished our intent
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • Our class could break into teams and we could evaluate each other.

Post-production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We can use free editing softwares like davinci pro and shotcut to edit. imovie is also an option
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should edit our videos and create a blog post to show our workflow
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • Our classmates can evaluate the final project.
  • We judge if we accomplished our goals and attentions.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • Our class teams can review our peer’s projects

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should make slideshows on google slides, and upload our videos to youtube.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should walk everyone through our process on google slides and present the final project.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • If we met our goals then we succeeded.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • Our classmates measure quality

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE?
  • We should use skyward, schoology, and padlet
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE?
  • After our classmates evaluate and leave feedback on our work, they comment on our padlet.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY?
  • If the feedback is clear then it is good
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY?
  • Our classmates