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4 Favorites from the Online Generational Curriculum:
Looking into
the Minds of the Previous Generations
I decided
to choose Quincy Tan's (409b, G7) report entitled "My
Reactions to the Generational Curriculum" as one of my Favorites. I really liked his home
page mainly because of the way his page looked. It was simple,
yet nice. Not to mention very organized. The way Quincy made the
layout of his page really impressed me for several reasons. It
was easy to read with the dark background and light text. Also
the way he organized his report with different colored text to
differentiate his titles and his responses.
It took me
a while to find Quincy's report because I went through all of the
reports of his generation, G7. Being that his was almost towards
the end because of the ascending order by last names, his was one
of the last ones that I looked at. First of all I went clicked on
the link Go
to All Prior Student Generations link.
From there I clicked on the Generation 7b link. I then searched
the reports of his fellow classmates, until finally I ended up at
his home page. When his page loaded, I browsed through his site,
and thought to myself, "this is a really nice page. It's
also full of good information." Not that the other pages
didn't have good information. It was just that Quincy's page
really made my eyes relax a little because of the orderliness of
his page. I'd say it took me about 30-40 minutes until I finally
decided to choose Quincy's page.
This
report by Quincy Tan dealt with
his expedition of the generations prior to G7. Quincy's report
consisted of five parts. The first two were about his findings of
the prior generations, and his last three are what I found to be
interesting. He talked about The
Virtual Book in Cyberspace which
was his reactions and opinions about reading a novel on-line. I
never really thought about reading books over the internet, and
this really prompted me to search for a novel to read on-line. It
was neat how he described the steps into searching for a novel
and what you could do once you found one. His descriptions made
it easy to picture in your mind. The next part was about his Proposal
for Mining the Generational Curriculum. This was really cool because he gives his ideas
about the security, uniformity, and navigation of the futute of
the generational curriculum. He proposes a neat idea of a Tree
Browse and he gives a link to give us the opportunity to visually see what he
is talking about. I followed that link and tested it out, and
found it to be a great thing. His last part was Conclusion
and Recommendations geared towards
the future generations to come. In this part he talks about
advertising this course somehow so people will know about such a
wonderful course and how it would allow others to see the growing
of the generations.
I chose Kristin
Subia's report from Psy 459,
Generation 6 mainly because her page was very neat and easy to
read. I liked her background colors as well. She also didn't have
that much graphics on her page which made it easy to load and
didn't cause much distractions while reading.
I looked at
a few of the Psy 459 reports in the Generations and stumbled upon
this one. It did not take me very long to realize that I liked
this one the best from Generation 6. Not to say that the others
were bad, but just because I had an easy time looking at and
reading her report. Before I decided that I wanted to use this
report, I spent about 10-15 minutes browsing the other reports
from her generation. The steps that I took to find this report
are the same that I took with the first report. In other words, I
went to the Go
to All Prior Student Generations link.
Then clicked on Generation 6, but this time under the column of
Traffic Psychology.
Ms.
Subia's report on How
Drivers Communicate with Each Other was
an excellent report dealing with the everyday habits that a
driver has and the experience that most drivers go through. Some
of the topics were making turns, changing lanes, yielding,
tailgating, overtaking, and racing. She also talks about verbal
communication as well as facial expressions and gestures of
drivers. I found this report to be a good source of driving
etiquette. It's a must read for every driver.
My next
favorite was from Generation 5, Psy 459. I chose Anthony Chung's report
for several reasons. The first being it's simplicity, and second
being the thoroughness of the contents of his report. His layout
was also nice and pleasing to the eye.
The steps
that I took to reach his report didn't consist of much. The
reason for this was because I knew that I wanted to choose his
report before even looking at the Generation
5 Homepage because I was a member
of Generation 5 as well. I remembered liking this report and the
style of it from way back when. I did however browse through the
other pages again for about 10 minutes, but still decided that
Mr. Chung's page was the least bit distacting and very easy to
read. This report gave a complete overview of Dr. Driving and the contents of his page.
My last
favorite report comes from Generation 5 Psy 409b. I chose Scott Chang's report
mainly because I found the contents to be very interesting and
motivating. He talked a lot about Web Page Architecture and his
personal experiences that he had. What I really liked about his
report was that he put a little humor into it as well as just
being informational. His section about The
Top 10 Ways to Tell you Have a Sucky Home Page. This brought a little humor into his report. I also
liked his layout. there were no graphics, but his use of colors
to differentiate his different topics made the report easy to
read.
I found
Scott's report by visiting the Special
Awards for Generation 5. I then
browsed the different links to students pages, but really found
Mr. Chang's page to be the best from Psy 409b. Before I decided
to choose his report, I spent about 45 minutes looking at all of
the other reports. But what really made me choose his was because
it was clear and concise. There were no fancy decors on his page,
which I find really annoying when it comes to web pages that are
supposed to be informative.
Scott
Chang's report was basically about Web Page Design and the
different styles that others choose. He talks extensively about
his very own experiences building web pages. He has five parts to
his report which consists of his personal experiences with web
page building, web designers principles. . .top 10 ways to tell
you have a sucky homepage, Pyschological Aspects by Dr. James,
and advice to the beginning web designer. It's a good place for
novice web page designers to visit just so they can see that web
pages aren't easy to do and they shouldn't be discouraged. He
talks about the top 10 ways of knowing your home page sucks and
goes in detail as to what and why certain aspects are sucky and
he then gives a contrast to what is savvy
on a homepage. This was really cool
and good to know.
After
comparing Scott's report to others in his generation, I really
thought that he knew what he was talking about and it seemed to
me that he spent a lot of time preparing to write his report. I
felt this way because of his many links to sites that related to
what he was talking about. The others in this generation also had
good reports, however, there were too many disruptive and
distracting icons on their pages which made my want to read their
pages dissipate. The others seemed to worry more about the visual
high tech look of their pages rather than the content. So
overall, I think Scotts page was the best because of it's
content.
I feel that
I have done just as much as the others in my generation. By
looking at my classmates reports, we all seem to have the same
type of ideas as to how we want to present our ideas. I also
found that the majority of the reports were geared more toward
the simple yet informative, rather than loud and flashy. This
impressed me a lot. I am rather pleased with my report and how I
realized the differences in having a nice and simple report when
dealing with a web page that has a lot of information and text on
it vs. my own personal
web page which has a lot of
graphics, background, and music. I learned much from reading my
classmates reports from time to time, and also I got to see the
different approaches and different ideas that we had for the same
project.
First
of all, I would like to stress the importance of procrastination.
My advice is Don't DO It!! You may think that putting together a
web page is easy, however, easy doesnt' mean it's not time
consuming. Putting together a good web page report takes a lot of
time regardless of your skills and ease of creating a web page.
There are some people who enroll in this course with no computer
skills whatsoever. Don't fear!! You will learn all that you need
to know just by doing it. There will be some that will never
figure it out until the very end. For these students as well as
every other student at this University, I highly suggest that you
take a introductory computer course such as ICS 101. This course teaches you all of the basic computer
skills you need to know, with an emphasis on web page building.
It also helps you to familiarize yourself with the computer and
helps you to realize that there isn't anything to be afraid of.
Computers are user friendly, so befriend them and make them a
part of your daily lives. Taking Dr. James' class really helped
me to learn how to create web pages from scratch. . .HTML. This
is my second course with Dr. James and it has proven once again
to have been a great and fun semester not only because of the
content of the course, but because I got to create yet again
another Home Page from scratch (with the use of Editors as well).
Tell your friends about this course so that the generations will
continue. Lastly, JUST HAVE FUN!!! You won't regret taking this
class, and at the end you will feel a sense of accomplishment.
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