Name: Bailey Galloway Project Reflection: Post on your Blog Project Title: Moral courage Web Site project Class: B Dates: 3-12-08 *You may type directly in this document and copy and paste into blog, or simply address each of the following in a post. It should be approx. 2 pages worth of writing. PURPOSE: In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do. Sentence Starters The purpose of this project was to learn about… In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc… In order to learn about AIDS we had to do tones of research and notes (five pages each for five people in our group) whether we used books or the web. The next step was to do an outline of our web site so that we could have a basic sketch of what each of our pages would look like and decide what content our web site pages would contain. Next we worked on the written content that would actually go on the site. Each of us was assigned at the minimum one of our website pages that we would work on putting information on. I was assigned the Cures page and along the way I worked on the Sources page medical information page and the index/ home page. We had to make sure that all of our information covered the whole topic. After we were finished with all of these steps we were basically done with our web-site not including all of the technical things that we worked on. WHAT I LEARNED In this section, tell what information or skills you learned or improved. Sentence Starters I learned about… I explored the concepts/topics of … In this project, I learned how to…. (skills) In this project, I learned how to research my topic thoroughly. I also learned more about Dream weaver and how to use the program. I now know how to upload a file onto another site and what it means to zip a folder. I learned that when you are taking notes on a topic you should do the best that you can so that later on when you need to use your notes you will have complete notes that contain all of the information that you need. I learned how to site sources and how serious plagiarism can be and if you don’t site one little source you could go to. I learned how important it is to use your time wisely in class so you don’t end up having to put a whole lot of your own time into a project. I learned how to have good communication with your group members so that each person knows exactly what to work on and will have an equal amount of work to do I most importantly learned how to develop and compose a professional web site. . I learned that there is no cure for AIDS, but there are treatments that help to prevent the virus getting even worse. There are many different treatments and doctors give about three of them to a patient at once. This is because when HIV multiplies, it does it so that one type of drug might not treat the duplicated virus. I also figured out how the constant demand for HIV treatment in Africa really affects the hospitals in Africa and also the health care workers. REFLECTION In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time? Sentence Starters I enjoyed this project because… I feel like I could have done better on this project because… Next time, I would… I dis-liked this project because I feel that it took way to long to get done and it took up a lot of time. I think that I could have done better on the notes for my topic because they wern’t very thorough the first time so I had to go back and do them over so that I would have enough information for the site. I also would have worked way harder in the beginning to get things done because I realized that I waited for the last three weeks to really start buckling down and getting things done. I would have put more media on the web site so that it wouldn’t seem all boring. Overall even though I didn’t really like the project I feel that it really taught me a lot of information and I learned about a very important topic that would actually help me later on in life. ARTIFACTS You should have at least one artifact from each project on your DP. What document, picture, or link will you have for this project? I could link thinkn quest to my DP so that people could look at our web site from there.