reflection
Making this website has taught me so much about making a website and more about giraffes. I learned how much time and effort it takes to keep a website looking good and keeping everything organized. I would encourage anyone to keep their information very organized before everything gets lost or misplaced. I also learned so much more about the giraffe. I had a limited amount of information that I had already knew, but doing this made that information grow much bigger. I believe that anyone know can make a website.
The researching process was very different because normally when people think of research papers, they think of a boring assignment that will take forever to complete. This researching process was completely different from how people view it. Researching for this website was enjoyable because we were making a project about something that we actually enjoy. It was also enjoyable because our friends were also going through the same process and struggles that we were encountering as well. I think having our friends doing the same project made it easier because we could share ideas that we had used that our friends could trying to incorporate into their websites as well.
There were some difficulties to making this website. First, the school’s firewall system blocked all of the videos that included important information about our animals. I overcame that just simply by not putting any videos on the site. Another problem was that the computers all went really slow when everyone was working on them. I overcame that obstacle by working on the project at my house. Some people decided to take their website home to work on or probably would try working on it during S.L.P.
I think everyone can benefit from this project. It gives people knowledge that they probably didn’t know about fellow classmate’s animal and even their own. It gave everyone a chance to see animals that they might not have heard of before and learn about them. I think another class that we could have done this type of project in would probably be history. We could make a website on an ancient civilization that is very important to know for tests and the final. We could divide it into sections like what were some of the battles that they were in or something that would help us in remembering the topics. I think it would be very beneficial for studying purposes.
If I ever did this project again, I would change some of it. I would leave all the information alone and then maybe add some pictures that show things that I’m describing. I probably would have added a video or two about the important parts. It might improve the way people view giraffes. It could also change the grade I could receive. I know that I viewed this project as very boring when we began but now I enjoy it and would definitely enjoy making another one about a different topic or animal.