{"id":10805,"date":"2017-06-30T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=10805"},"modified":"2021-04-18T22:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:16:39","slug":"ems-students-helped-launch-a-website-for-a-local-organization","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/ems-students-helped-launch-a-website-for-a-local-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS students helped launch a website for a local organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging Media Studies students <strong>Yiyan Zhang (&#8217;17)<\/strong>, <strong>Xiaoshuang Guo (&#8217;17)<\/strong>, <strong>Jingru Cao (&#8217;17)<\/strong> and <strong>Xueying Pan (&#8217;17)<\/strong> helped launch a website for <a href=\"http:\/\/massfarmersmarkets.org\/\">Mass Farmers Markets (MFM)<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that supports farmers&#8217; markets in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/massfarmersmarkets.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-11.31.04-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-06-30 at 11.31.04 AM\" width=\"1159\" height=\"907\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-11.31.04-AM.png 1159w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-11.31.04-AM-636x498.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-11.31.04-AM-1024x801.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-30-at-11.31.04-AM-768x601.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1159px) 100vw, 1159px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The website was a part of a design project for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/com\/programs\/emerging-media-studies\/ma\/\">EM757 User-Producers 2.0: Developing Interactivity<\/a>, in which students are expected to partner with a professional client such as start-ups and nonprofits and design a user-friendly, interactive website for the client. The course is taught by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/lei-guo\/\">Dr. Lei Guo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2017\/06\/Group-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"Group photo\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10806\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/> Project team members at their graduate commencement. Left to right: Jingru Cao, Xiaoshuang Guo, Yiyan Zhang, and Xueying Pan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It was a wonderful experience to see our own design adopted by the client. EM 757 provided us with comprehensive knowledge of web design and in-depth understanding of user experience. We also learned how to communicate with real-world clients and how to collaborate as a team. These are the key capabilities needed in the job market,&#8221; said Zhang.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"no-line\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging Media Studies students Yiyan Zhang (&#8217;17), Xiaoshuang Guo (&#8217;17), Jingru Cao (&#8217;17) and Xueying Pan (&#8217;17) helped launch a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13163,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[790,19,1330],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/10805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13163"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/10805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28071,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/10805\/revisions\/28071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}