Summaries of Generational
Curriculum
Jill Umetsu wrote:
Hi everyone, this is my summary of the generational
curriculum:
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.
Bye, Jill
Jeanette Knutsun wrote:
Wow, talk about high-tech! Am I really going to be doing that as
well? Somehow I just can't see it right now...Anyway, I looked throught
the generational curriculum and the main thing that I noticed was the
improvement on the students' parts over the semesters. The first couple
generations were rather simple, although it was still a lot more than I
could do in a lifetime...on the otherhand, the generations right before us
were doing some real funky stuff with their home pages and everything. I
have to say that I was really impressed. The really cool thing is that
these home pages will always live on in the computer world, (which we all
know will take the place for a lot of things in the very near future) so
that our future generation will be able to see what we contributed as
students. Thats the really fascinating part...that our work will remain
untouched and preserved for all to see, from any part of the world, at any
time. I don't know about you guys, but as for me, someone who is totally
without a doubt computer illiterate, it never dawned on me to look at it
in that way. Gone are the days when old decrepit works of art with fading
yellow pages will have to be restored in a museum, now it's high tech and
away we go into the future. It's kind of scary though, because it takes
away from the humanistic side of things...is this all thats going to be
left of us after we all leave this planet? I guess we better leave a good
impression then huh? Anyway back to the subject at hand, I found the
generational curriculum very interesting and hopefully look forward to
creating a home page thats equally interesting. Good luck to all, (I know
that I really need it)...Bye all...
jeanette knutson
Anthony Chung wrote:
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.
Sincerely,
Anthony Chung
e-mail aschung@hawaii.edu
Michelle Lagunoy wrote:
Hi guys and gals.....
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.
See ya' all in class...
Michelle Lagunoy
Cheryl Andaya wrote:
Before I took this class, I had no knowledge of the internet. I
simply thought that it was used by smart people with no lives. Boy was I
wrong!!! When my younger brother started using it and was excited about
it, I knew that I was missing out. So when I took this class, although I
was intimidated, I was really excited. Man, this stuff isn't easy.
Anyways, `kay pau vent. I just got through checking out the
Generational Curriculum. Whoa!!!! Impressive! I could really see the
difference between the past generations and the more recent ones.
Generation three and four have more elaborate home pages. The complexity
of the pages increase as the generations go on. My home page is a joke
next to theirs and I was really excited about putting mine's up. :( Oh
well, maybe one day I'll get the hang of this and put up a better home
page. I really liked the images they used to decorate their pages. It
made their pages look really interesting. I wanted to check everything
out.
The greatest thing that really hit me was the fact that the works
of these students will be still be up even after they are gone. They are
also still here to help provide help with people who are lost just like
me. :) They can keep adding and perfecting their pages as the years go
on and technology advances. Perhaps in a couple of years I too will be
able to put little pictures and stuff on my page so keep checking up on
me! :) Well, I hope this is a page. E-mail me candaya@hawaii.edu. Talk
to you all later! K-den-Kay-bye!!!
cheryl andaya :@) Aloha mai kakou!