This week we focused on creating our final project. This consisted of creating a website that consists of three lessons, incorporate our visuals we have created over the course, and a justification paper.
Opening a puzzle box and seeing all the pieces, you begin to group like colors and parts you know belong together. In creating this website, it was the same feeling. Trying to remember everything we have learned; proper organization, use of color, proper selection, shape, how to ACE a visual, how to catch a CARP, and how to go to the depths of space. All of this seemed easy when creating it in small chunks, but to create all of them together at once, trying to keep it straight in my head, has proven greater a task than I anticipated. I keep wondering how and why this part of the project is only one week long, and the final steps are three weeks long. I am feeling grateful to post my site and gain peer feedback. Time to build the puzzle, one piece at a time.
For my site I chose black and white for the ground work so the viewer would be drawn to the information; to the actual visual rather than a cardboard puzzle piece itself. Each page consisting of a different writing trait, a visual created along the way, and a lesson. I viewed many peer project creations this week, checking to see if I was on the right track. I noticed we are all creating different puzzles, some with pictures of landscapes, people, beautiful buildings; some 500 pieces, others 100 pieces. Regardless the finished picture, or amount of pieces it took to create the finished puzzle, how it looks when it is constructed matters to the viewer. Many were missing a piece, and rather than focus on the rest of the beautiful creation, your eye is drawn to that one missing piece. Others had a few pieces in the wrong place, again same result.
As we spend the next final weeks finishing our masterpiece puzzles I hope we all can look up long enough to see each others creation, point out the missing piece and help them find it, and come back to our own with keen eyes and a feeling of an accomplishment.
Opening a puzzle box and seeing all the pieces, you begin to group like colors and parts you know belong together. In creating this website, it was the same feeling. Trying to remember everything we have learned; proper organization, use of color, proper selection, shape, how to ACE a visual, how to catch a CARP, and how to go to the depths of space. All of this seemed easy when creating it in small chunks, but to create all of them together at once, trying to keep it straight in my head, has proven greater a task than I anticipated. I keep wondering how and why this part of the project is only one week long, and the final steps are three weeks long. I am feeling grateful to post my site and gain peer feedback. Time to build the puzzle, one piece at a time.
For my site I chose black and white for the ground work so the viewer would be drawn to the information; to the actual visual rather than a cardboard puzzle piece itself. Each page consisting of a different writing trait, a visual created along the way, and a lesson. I viewed many peer project creations this week, checking to see if I was on the right track. I noticed we are all creating different puzzles, some with pictures of landscapes, people, beautiful buildings; some 500 pieces, others 100 pieces. Regardless the finished picture, or amount of pieces it took to create the finished puzzle, how it looks when it is constructed matters to the viewer. Many were missing a piece, and rather than focus on the rest of the beautiful creation, your eye is drawn to that one missing piece. Others had a few pieces in the wrong place, again same result.
As we spend the next final weeks finishing our masterpiece puzzles I hope we all can look up long enough to see each others creation, point out the missing piece and help them find it, and come back to our own with keen eyes and a feeling of an accomplishment.