Website Reflection!

Project Title: Beyond The Ocean Website Reflection
Class: Ms. Interlandi
Letter: A
Date: March 10, 2008


Purpose: The purpose of the website project was to make an informative website displaying Moral Courage. In order to learn about Moral Courage we had to pick a theme to describe Moral Courage. Our theme was Ocean Disasters and how we are hurting the ocean. It displays moral courage by people offering to clean up peoples pollution that they threw on the ground. So the pollution does not get sucked into our oceans. Without these people that offer to clean up trash or people that do the right thing and put trash in the trash can, our environment would not be were it is today. For example our school. After lunch we all contribute a piece of trash to put in the trash can. If we did not do this then we would have a trashy school environment. A lot of people don't put there trash away because their to lazy to go to the trash can. But if these people don't throw their trash away into the trash can then it gets sucked into our oceans and someone could die from that piece of trash that you didn't throw away. This someone could become extinct. To preform this each member of my group had to pick a topic to research about. My topic was runoffs and how it is hurting the oceans. We had to write about 4 pages or more of research about that topic. We then had to create a website and make pictures, paraphrase our research and put our research onto our website. We also had to make links, photographs, anchors movies and much more onto our site.

What I learned: In this project I learned a lot about Runoffs. I learned that runoffs are caused by rain. When it rains it the rain picks up all the trash or ashes and flushes them down the sewer drains. This sewage then gets thrown into the ocean. I also learned that sea creatures and sea animals eat our trash because they don't know if its easy food or not. So now by we not throwing our trash away we are confusing them if trash in food for them or not. I also learned how to make links. I learned how to link a page to another page. Which was kind of a huge skill for me because I had no clue to link pages to other pages so this was good practice for me. I also learned how to make anchors, and also I learned shortcuts like: Control+A, Control+C and Control+V. Which is highlight, copy and paste. Some other things I learned was paraphrasing homework, although I need a little more practice on it. I learned how to take information and put them in my own words but making have the same meaning. For example: There was a unicorn and it went over the hill and the hill was very big. In my own words I would put There was a big hill and a unicorn went over the it. That it what paraphrasing is. I also learned what plagiarise means. Plagiarising is copying the same sentences without put quotes around them. Some things I could of done better on was helping my group out a little more. Because I was kind of ignoring them and was trying to finish my work before class was over. I also could of done better with my information because it took me along time to organize it right. My facts were not in order right. So I should of done better on that.

Reflection: I enjoyed this project because I learned a lot about how people are hurting the environment. I also liked this project because I learned how to make links to other pages. I also learned how to not plagiarise. I also learned a new word which is now on my vocabulary list which is Plagiarism! I also liked this project because it was my first website assignment and I have never made my own website with links to other pages, anchors, has descent information and had pictures and videos. The things I disliked about this project was that one of my team members always politely bugged me because he could not use a computer. So I had to help do what ever he had to do which kind of bothered me because I was doing something and I had to stop to do what he needed to do. I also disliked it because he did not contribute his information to our website. Next time I would be more aggressive and say that I have to finish my work and I do not have time to do what you have to do. So it was kind of pressuring me because I basically had to do twice the amount of work. I also thought this project was a bit challenging because we had to make sure all documents were spaced and had capital letters. It was also kind of hard trying to not plagiarise. Other then that I thought this project was fun and exciting and next if I ever did this project again it would be a tons better because when you first start out with a website project you do not expect how its going to turn out. But if I do it again I now have an idea on how to make a website.