YoonWhan Cho
Psy409
Dr. Leon James
For this week's report, I am supposed to compare and comment on other
classmates' team reports. So, I first looked at Ragna
Borries' team
reports. I read through almost all of her team reports and noticed that
she covered so many different topics in her team reports. They were so
various that I didn't felt bored at all. And also she approached
various topics with different perspective or focus. For example, in her
team
report week5, she reported on a directory called, "Mc.Kinley" with a
focus of information and related its value to social psychology. I
thought that was pretty innovative way of writing a team report. And
also in her week10
team report, she took a creative step to write a team
report. She did a series of research on her topic, David Bowie with a
focus of entertainment.
She tried out several search engines on her topic and described each
result in
her reports. I thought her approaches to each weekly team reports were
different. She never took a same approach nor a same topic for her team
reports. I thought her work on team reports can be a good example of
flexiblility in topic of team reports.
I read through team
reports by Curtis Nakao, Ryan Yamaguchi, and Cynthia Yap. Their team
reports had nice
backgrounds. And also their topic on learning the Internet seemed to be
very helpful. especially, team
report week2 was informational. They gathered useful information on
Internet and used a unique way to put together summaries of group
member's team reports. In week5
report, they made links in
group members' summary of team report. I thought that was very unique
way of writing a team report. Generally, their team reports integrated
helpful resources for topic. I thought their team reports showed
improvement every week and especially, week9
report was great in its content and appearance. I thought their
team reports would have been better if they included individual comments
of every group members in each week's report.
Christina Kealoha did a great job with her weekly team reports. Her introduction page for team reports was so well-organized. She was kind enough to give brief descriptions about all weekly reports and let the readers know what they are about. I thought her reports covered various aspects of health related topic in Internet to make the readers less bored, and yet they were well-focused. The most remarkable part in her reports throughout the semester is that she gave all the index for every paragragh, so that she can make a index of links for team reports. Another remarkable part she included throughout the semester was the part called, "Societal Implications." For example, in her week5 report, she included this part to express her own thought and feeling in consideration of importance of information and its impact on social psychology. She also made some changes in her second part of reports. The most remarkable change was that she changed background and also inserted some graphics to appeal visually. Especially, in her week9 report, she used bold logos of the sites she visited to beautify her report. I think her content and appearance of her reports are faultless.
Nitsa Mc Carthy's team reports successfully maintained its good quality of content throughout the semester. The most noticable quality she maintained throughout the semester was that she used consistent style in every reports. She always started her reports with the description of how she approached to the information. And she objectively explained what the information was about. Finally, she concluded her reports with her own thought and feeling about the information. I thought the last part of her reports was real and sincere enough to give the reader sense of sharing her own thoughts and feelings. She also made a noticable change in her second part of reports. She began to put graphics in her reports. In her week11 report, she put pictures. And also, it seems like she considerably expanded her topics for the second part of reports.