_____ 0) This report must have the following main heading:

My 4 Favorites from the
Online Generational Curriculum:
xxx
Note: replace xxx with a fitting sub-title of your own choosing!

Note:

Where you see these two asterisks **, they indicate a tagged sub-title that is also to appear in the Table of Contents on top of your document. Be sure you have them all. To see examples of tagged sub-titles, first go to your Internet Exercises Instructions, then give the "View" command (on the browser Menu line) and select  "Source" . See how the separate Parts (1 to 11) have tagged headings keyed to the Table of Contents on top.

_____ 1) Explore the generational reports. Select 4 student Reports that impressed you: 2 reports from 409 (a or b) and 2 from 459. Thus, 4 different students will be involved and each student must be from a different generation. Thus, you may choose only one student per generation per course. Go to All Prior Student Generations, or the Special Awards for All Generations, and explore, then come back here. A Note First: If you come across a dead link (a link you click on and you get an error message instead of the file), please email Dr. James giving the name of the file and the name of the dead link.  Thanks!! This will help us keep the Generational Curriculum up to date.

_____ 2) **List each of your selections as a relative link, giving them tagged sub-titles -- **My Selection Number 1 to **My Selection Number 4 and under each, add paragraphs that answer to these questions and specifications. To see examples of such relative links to prior generations, view the Source for a student report, then come back here to continue.

_____ 3) **Why did you choose this student's report -- what first impressed you about it, enough to pick it rather than another?

_____ 4) **Retrace the steps that led you to this report. Explain how you browsed through the generations, how many reports you looked at, how long you spent looking at them, when did you know your final pick, etc. (be sure you answer all of them). The purpose here is to give information about how people browse through--this is not known. So your task is to provide some of that information, as it actually happened to you.

_____ 5) **Describe the topic of the report, including the content of all the sections. Give a complete picture, but a general one, not too long. The purpose here is to show how the material gets processed in people's mind--this is not known. So you can provide some of this information as you could observe it in your own case.

_____ 6) **Discuss your reaction and involvement with what the student did. Could you have done the same thing? What content or presentation format impressed you and why? Summarize the content and logic: now comment on what was left out, what remains weak, what is strong, what is original. How do you propose to advance the topic and its logic?

You need to be specific in this section. If you cannot recall things, please re-visit the document or pick another one. Remember: if you find yourself with not much to say, re-visit the document or pick another. Also: discuss it with someone (see what their reactions and questions are), and the ideas will automatically start flowing in your mind!!

_____ 7) **Compare the reports you selected, each with others in the same generation and course (this means you'll have to explore the ohters of that generation): what are the results of your comparison? How do you explain these differences or similarities? Try to cover both appearance and content.

_____ 8) **Take a look at how other students in your class have done this report (generations.html) (when the drafts are posted). In a separate section with its own **tagged sub-title, describe your impressions and reactions of what you saw in their document. Describe how their generations.html file compares with yours in (a) content, (b) approach, and (c) presentation.
Note: hurry up and post your draft of this report so others can complete this part of it!! Please email the class when your report is first posted. In your announcement, remind them to send their answers through the class list. Please post your document even if the links don't work, and even if you're not yet sure about HTML. All you need to post a document is to separate all the paragraphs with the (p) tag.

_____ 9) **What are your suggestions for future generations who can study this report and are interested in going further with it? Recommend some directions to take, especially on what instructions to give to future students about processing the Generational Curriculum. End with an assessment of how you've benefited from being a G8 member of this virtual online generational community. Note: you might want to complete this section, and add to it, later in the semester!

_____ 10) Add a centered h1 heading, calling the document:

My 4 Favorites from the

Online Generational Curriculum:
xxx

_____ 11) Now type this into the [title] field of your document:

First name, Last name, My 4 Favorites from the Online Generational Curriculum.

Take a look at the [title] field in this document: look at the little window above the browser's menu bar, where it says Netscape: and what follows the colon is what you type in the [title] tag or field. Note that it's not the same as the heading which has the [h1] tag. Now view the Source for this page and comapre the [title] field and the [h1] field.

_____ 12) Place a Table of Contents at the top of the document with links to all the tagged sub-titles. See the Table of Contents for your Internet Exercises Instructions then click back here.

_____ Note: Students often forget this item--but it is required: The first item in the Table of Contents MUST be called Instructions for this Report and it must be a live link to this document, whose address is ../../leonj/leonpsy9/g9generations.html. See for example the Table of Contents of this G7 report, and see what the first entry is in it--then click back to this file (note that the green backgound is not a good choice because it makes it hard to read the text.   It's best to avoid backgrounds with patterns).

_____ 13) Be sure you add a Navigation Table and e-mail button at the bottom of the document. To see a Nav Table take a look at the Source of this file .

_____ 14) Using your web browser, check your document screen by screen: no screen should be made of just one paragraph (i.e., no paragraph should exceed one screen full--it's too hard to read that way!)

_____ 15) Check the visibility of your text: patterned backgrounds are not allowed. Here is a student who used a background--notice that it's harder to read the text!! Go see then click back here. Darker colors are not allowed either. White bgcolor is always excellent, especially if you vary the font face, color, and size to enhance visibility and emphasis (no blinking text allowed). Remember: your text looks different in different browsers and computers, so you need to experiment and ask others. You may also use graphic enhancers such as color bars, color dots, animated icons. Using the Table tag in html allows easy control over the color of each column and the placement of text on the screen. As an example see how I use the Table tag for the Table of Contents in this file (now on your screen) (view the Source page for it), then click back here.

_____ 16) Check the way your document loads after it contains everything. How long does it take to load? Does text appear on the screen while one waits, or is it blank? Slow loads and blank screens are not allowed, so you must choose graphics that are low in memory size and place them past the first screen!

_____ 18) This is the end of Part 10. When it is completed, you need to fill out the ratings. Go back to Part 10 of the Exercises Instructions to fill out the ratings.
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