Final Project and Reflection

We are going to build a website as an electronic portfolio of the work we've done in class this semester.
For each project done so far, we will:

1. create a web-ready version (if necessary),
2. post that version, and
3. reflect on our work.

Your website will include:

• A folder in which all pages, images, movies, etc. for the final project are saved
• A homepage (default.html) that introduces the project and has links to all of the pages about each of your projects
• A common theme (colors, background image or color, etc)
• Links between the pages when appropriate and links to at least four outside pages
• At least one table. If you think your project doesn’t need a table, you can use a table to position text and pictures the way you want (if you set the ‘border’ to zero, you can make the table itself invisible). Try it!
• An animation made with Fireworks (you can use the one you already made, or make one that goes with this project).
• At least one page for each of the following projects
  • Letter to Friend or Family
  • News article
  • Spreadsheets
  • Keynote
  • Images
  • Documentary
  • Any Extra project(s) you did that you would like to share (Garageband song, Toasts turned to Wordle, 100 Significant Questions, etc.)
• The following information about each project (on the same page that hosts the project or on a separate web page linked to from the page with the project)
  • What did you like about the project?
  • What did you dislike about the project?
  • How would you change the assignment (what you were asked to do)?
  • How would you change/improve your work on the assignment?
• At least one page about your experience in the class overall, including:
  • did you do your best work for this class,
  • were your goals for the class met (see questions 5, 6, and 7 on the survey you filled out at the beginning of the semester),
  • what do you know how to do now that you didn't know at the beginning of the semester (again, you can look at the survey for ideas, especially question 4),
  • if you could travel back in time and give yourself (the self that was about to start this course) any advice for the semester, what advice would you deliver in order to make the semester even more productive for yourself,
  • if you could travel back in time and give Jim (the Jim that was about to start teaching this course) any advice for the semester, what advice would you deliver in order to make the semester even more productive for you, and
  • your overall impressions/evaluation of the class.

If you would like to see an incomplete sample of the final project, click here.

 

Thanks for a terrific semester.

 

"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
- Confucius