Generational Curriculum Summaries
Generational Curriculum Summaries: How Do You Feel About It?
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Jill Umetsu: jumetsu@hawaii.edu says...
When I first went to the generational curriculum on Dr. James'
homepage I thought it was interesting. It was pretty neat to see all the
students in the previous generations. I think it goes back two and a half
years or five semesters, that is a long ways back. And to think that it
is still up there for other students to look at is pretty amazing.
Actually anyone can still look at those pages, if they know the address or
happens to find it in the search engine. The grandchildren of those
students will be able to read their pages.
The homepages of each generation are all different. As the
generations get older they add on more things. From the first generation
you can see the differences in the way the class lists are set up. The
set up for generation one just lists all the names of the students and has
a couple of links. Generation two starts to look like the set up for the
rest of the generations. It has more links and some graphics. I think in
generation 3 they tried something different because it looks different
from the previous generations. It was set to have support groups and each
student took a topic for their own homepage. They also had a picture of
the class. Generation 4 looks like generation 2 so it was just for
generation 3 that something different was done.
The students' homepages have also changed. It seems that from
generation 3 the students start to use more graphics on their pages. The
topics of the generations are all basically the same with slight
variations.
I think that having all the generations on the computer like how it
is now is a great idea. These pages will be up for a long time for
everyone to use and benefit from.
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Mary Aldana: aldana@hawaii.edu says...
I explored the generational curriculum and this really helped me to get a
better understanding of what it is that we will be doing. There were some
very helpful instructions and using HTML and I had fun looking at all the
work that the other generations have completed. I even printed a couple
of things that resembled tutorials on how to put web pages up. All of
this was very helpful informations which I got from browsing.
It is kind of neat to think that next year at this time, some future
generation will be looking at our web sites and will be learning something
new from us. For those of you who have not had a chance to explore the
generational curriculum, I advise that you do very soon. Alot of what we
are doing now, may not make sense, but you get a general idea of what it
is that our work is leading up to.
A couple of students from past generations even offer help it you need
it. I thought that was really cool. When you read the past generational
curriculum that other students have completed, the concept traffic
psychology begins to make a little bit more sense, and actually it is very
interesting. The driving personality makeover looks especially
interesting.
Don't forget to look at the different styles of backgrounds and icons
that students are using. Remember to get neat ideas from them. I have to
go now because there is another class coming in, but if you haven't gone
to the generational curriculum do it now!
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Anthony Chung: aschung@hawaii.edu says...
Hello, my fellow classmates. So how is everybody doing on their
exercises? Well, I just finished my surfing on the Gennerational
Curriculum and these are some of my reations on the internet. First of
all, one of the first things that I clicked on was the topic index. I was
so amazed and impressed by the large amount of topics to choose from. The
titles are very descriptive and interesting. Some of the topics that I
was curious about was the Behavioral Self-Witnessing Methodology in
Traffic, Affective and Cognitive Processes Learning the Internet
(Cybercommunity), and Spritual Psychology. Within the first topic I
picked, there were some helpful hints like the Three Step Program for a
Healthier, More Zestful Traffic Life and the self-witnessing process.
Because this is a Traffic Psychology class, I thought this site was very
useful to get an idea about what this class is really about.
Moving on to the Gennerational Curriculum, I felt like I knew
these students personally just by reading their reports. These reports
were very different and unique and it has provided me with a wide range of
their experiences. I consider using the internet and Gennerational
Curriculum to be our current future. This is a great opportunity for
students to work on a project, publish it, and have it remain there for
their children or grandchildren to read. It is great to see this as a
continuum because a reader, say ten years from now, will be able to get a
grasp of how things have changed throughout the years in the way
students write, their experiences, and any memorable events in the past.
Because this is my second year working with the internet and it
feels great to share a piece of myself and take part of these
gennerations. I hope this will be another experience that will be
productive and enjoyable in which I can contribute to this curriculum
again. Well, I guess I will be ending this soon so you don't have to read
too long and I'll be seeing the rest of you in class.
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Michelle Lagunoy: lagunoy@hawaii.edu says...
Well, i've just exlored the Generational Curriculum and I must say
there's a massive amount of information!! It's so high-tech that so much
information can be saved and shared with the whole entire world with just
the click of a button. What's more unique is that all the research that
other students have done before us will still be there for future
generations to see. Hopfully, by reading what everyone else has done, by
taking this class, and by getting all the help I can...hint, hint ;)...
who knows maybe someday someone will be reading something I wrote.
After reading the tons and tons of information on traffic
psychology, the two things I found interesting were the pages on
Swedenborg Psychology and the fact that I can read up on other students'
work.
Although Swedenborg Psychology didn't deal with traffic psychology
I was intrigued on how psychology can have moral aspects as well as
mental. It contained short stories of how psychology can help turn
people's lives by around using religion. I thought the stories presented
an alternative to the regular text book psychology that we learn in
school. However, now that i've read about Sweden Psychology there so much
more ways to approach this topic of mental behavior than I thought there
was. With all the techicalities that pscyhology has, i'm relived that it
also has it's morals and values side too.
As for being able to explore other students' work, it will come in
handy when I set up my own home page. When I look at people's home pages,
it seems as if it didn't look that hard to do at all. I guess it took
some time, though. They look so professional! I hope I will be able to
make one as well, but I guess I have to start somewhere. Maybe with a
little patience, a little creativity, and a whole lot of time, i'll be
able to create my very own.
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Phuong Wataoka: pwataoka@hawaii.edu says...
Surfing through the Generational Curriculum, I was impressed with
the amount of information, especially the updated materials.
Everything advanced within just one semester. When I took Psy 409
during Summer 96, I did not have a site with Alta Vista to introduce my
reports and homepage like how the 4th Generation did. It's nice to see
how future generation advanced from previous generation.
I found Dr. James's list of publications interesting. I learned
a little more about Dr. James's different areas of study. My favorite
place to visit was his Swedenborge Home Page. It has variety of topics to
browse. I like the fact that I can use the Magellan search engine to find
specific subtopic in this site. I also like Diane Nahl's Search Index. It
is a good site to find cute gif and other goodies. The Tour Guides site
was informative and gave me a lot of ideas about designing home page.
Overall, I enjoyed reading students'generational reports and the
principles of Traffic Psychology the most. Every author had something
special to share. Although it took me a long time to go through all these sites,
it
was an educational experience for me.
Well there you go, there's some of the opinions as expressed by some of my classmates...