INVESTIGATION

ATL + Inquirer

INVESTIGATION

We are basically learning all about on how to create a website, and at the end of the project we are going to have a competition on who has created the best website. I think that this unit is going to be very interesting, because first o fall I never tried creating neither a website nor a blog.

Through IT class I could have a blog, and now I am FINALLY going to learn how to create a website! In my opinion it is a very useful project for us, because you can choose any topic you want to work on, which gives you the opportunity to learn about topics you are interested in. Secondly, it is a very creative way to let your voice hear to the world on certain topic, and I especially like the part of creating a website based on our chosen topic, because I can be creative in a different way (using technology) and learn a lot of things during this project,

I expect myself to learn about how a creation of a website works and how these can be helpful to others, but as well as gaining knowledge by researching on the topic I am going to chose for my website.

Today we talked about what to consider in order to create a web, and one of the most important factors are taking in consideration of handicapped people. There are people have difficulties to hear, see, touch, move and speak; therefore it is very important to think about these problems and considerate them while creating the website. Furthermore, one of the basic problem viewers tends to have it that they use a different browser, and it can cause the effect and appearance of the website.

We also have to think about what makes a good website:

· Technical function (whether the website is working properly, easy to use and to understand the basic technical function on the website)

· Subject of the website (choose a topic we are interested in)

· Design (the appearance of the website overall is appealing to viewer)

With the class we discussed what AOI to choose and what Learning Profile the project will fit to. After talking about it thoroughly, we are going to concentrate on ATL as AOI, because we learn new topics and gain knowledge. Inquirer was our Learner Profile, because we are going to thoroughly analyze information we find and look deeper into the given topic to have a better understanding of it.

Afterwards, our teacher told us to go this website www.thinkquest.org and look through the websites that were created by young adults. Then choose one that appeal to us the most and state why we liked that particular website more than any other one.