Talya's designs and sketches

This design was a "stretch" -- it was designed for illiterate parents (but literate teachers).  
This sketch shows the teacher's page when the teacher, Ms. Frizzle, creates a permission slip.  Ms. Frizzle selects one of the classes she teaches from the drop-down menu. She then enters the title of the activity or event.  Note that the purpose of entering the title is only for the teacher's reference when she wants to return to the form later (for example, to see which parents have given permission for their children to go ice skating).  After entering the title of the activity or event (in words), Ms. Frizzle selects a picture that will be displayed to the parents to show what the children will be doing.  Ms. Frizzle can either choose this picture from an existing library of images on the website, or she can upload her own picture from her computer.  Ms. Frizzle enters the date of the activity (either by typing in the date or pressing the "select date" button which will bring up a calendar from which she can choose a date).  Finally, she clicks "send" to send the form to all parents of students in the relevant class (or she may press "cancel").

This sketch shows the parent's view of the permission slip.  When Arnold's mother goes to the website to view the permission slip, she sees a photograph of her child, Arnold, with an arrow pointing to a picture of the activity that Arnold's class will be doing: ice skating.  A calendar shows today's date and the date of the activity.  Next, there is a button with a volume icon which Arnold's mother can press to hear an (automatically-generated) audio recording of the information included in this permission slip.  She then presses the check button to approve for Arnold to participate in the activity, or the 'x' button to not allow Arnold to participate.