Saturday, October 01, 2005
Task: Portfolios Defined (Contd.) (FINALLY)
I decided to take a look at Aaron Nicoli's Homepage. I am going to evaluate it the way we evaluate work for the Arts:
What were the positive sides?
The thing about Aaron's page that caught my attention was his home page, which had what we would call his personal statement. First, he defines himself as a person - his personality and characteristics. Then he talks about where he has come from, his hobbies and activities, what he does out and about the community and his future goals, both in terms of university and career, justifying his wishes. All in all, it gives us a good impression of him as a person.
Then, Aaron has a 3 pages, each containing pictures of his family, his friends and wrestling. The fact that Aaron has chosen to have a separate page of photos of his wrestling tournaments shows us how important the sport is to him.
This is followed by 4 pages on his academic subjects, each giving an overview of the course he took and then describing one sample of work which is included in or linked to the webpage.
This style of describing the whole course or topic was something I had also seen in Smruti's weblog, although her topic overviews were about a sentence long. It is different from the entry tags we are used to, as it combines an entry tag with the part of our Overview of the Year where we describe each subject - to give a sort of overview of the subject.
What could be improved?
It is obvious that Aaron did not give his web-space a lot of time. His entries are relevant for only 1 term. His format was the same as all the other students of the school, so that could be changed to make it more interesting. Some of his work samples did not load properly.
What would I do differently had I been given the project?
I would arrange my photos in an interesting way, rather than have them all in one line.
I would have less pictures of wrestling :D . There were way too many pictures - as if Aaron had included every single picture of himself wrestling he could lay his hands on. Some were lurry, some were taken at odd angles (ahem) and some were pictures of the same match, 3 or 4 seconds apart - that was VERY boring. Unless one knows the basics of wrestling, the captions underneath the pictures do not make much sense as they use wrestling jargon.
Aside from that, maybe I'd be a little more descriptive when talking about each project.
The biggest drawback of Aaron's webspace was that it was only relevant for 1 term.
I decided to take a look at Aaron Nicoli's Homepage. I am going to evaluate it the way we evaluate work for the Arts:
What were the positive sides?
The thing about Aaron's page that caught my attention was his home page, which had what we would call his personal statement. First, he defines himself as a person - his personality and characteristics. Then he talks about where he has come from, his hobbies and activities, what he does out and about the community and his future goals, both in terms of university and career, justifying his wishes. All in all, it gives us a good impression of him as a person.
Then, Aaron has a 3 pages, each containing pictures of his family, his friends and wrestling. The fact that Aaron has chosen to have a separate page of photos of his wrestling tournaments shows us how important the sport is to him.
This is followed by 4 pages on his academic subjects, each giving an overview of the course he took and then describing one sample of work which is included in or linked to the webpage.
This style of describing the whole course or topic was something I had also seen in Smruti's weblog, although her topic overviews were about a sentence long. It is different from the entry tags we are used to, as it combines an entry tag with the part of our Overview of the Year where we describe each subject - to give a sort of overview of the subject.
What could be improved?
It is obvious that Aaron did not give his web-space a lot of time. His entries are relevant for only 1 term. His format was the same as all the other students of the school, so that could be changed to make it more interesting. Some of his work samples did not load properly.
What would I do differently had I been given the project?
I would arrange my photos in an interesting way, rather than have them all in one line.
I would have less pictures of wrestling :D . There were way too many pictures - as if Aaron had included every single picture of himself wrestling he could lay his hands on. Some were lurry, some were taken at odd angles (ahem) and some were pictures of the same match, 3 or 4 seconds apart - that was VERY boring. Unless one knows the basics of wrestling, the captions underneath the pictures do not make much sense as they use wrestling jargon.
Aside from that, maybe I'd be a little more descriptive when talking about each project.
The biggest drawback of Aaron's webspace was that it was only relevant for 1 term.
# posted by Shabab @ 6:33 AM 
