The Presentations Part1

During lesson 11 we enjoyed the awesome presentations from 4 groups, covering a wide variety of topics. The first group presented on E commerce, they applied an online shopping layout for their web report. I felt that it drew great relevance to their topic and the layout is interesting and interactive. With a colorful layout, it managed to attract my attention to the website. However, since their topic is in relation to astatic, so it is important to remove pixelated photos and replace them with higher resolution pictures.

Next, another group presented on the topic “Finding Love Online”. It is an interesting topic given today’s wide usage of the Internet. The group covered an in-depth research on method of finding love from the past until the current technique of online dating. They also included various links for the convenience to users visiting the website. Sometime commendable about this group is that they decided to use iWeb instead. By sacrificing the use of flash, they managed to achieve a simple layout and a website that is easy to navigate. Overall, the layout of pictures and text were clear and easy to understand.

The third group presented on Kinetic Technology. They started with the introduction of usage of kinetic energy in the past and highlight significant changes as technology developed. Their website gave me a futuristic feeling which is inline with their content. They also provided an evaluation of some of the popular devices invented using the concept of kinetic technology. Areas whereby they can improve will be to make minor adjustment to their formatting so that the presentation of their content will be more standardized. Their website is interactive and interest me in taking a second look.

The last presentation for the day was on the topic of Technology and Genetically modified food. The layout is interesting as they provided a variety of GM food and price quotes of them, making it seem as though we are shopping for groceries. The information is well organized and concise, making it easy for readers to understand.

After listening to all the presentations, I managed to learn a little more on the individual topics and how the groups organize their content. An important aspect of a web report is to provide sufficient information and at the same time make it easy to navigate. However, we realized that although free webhosting platform provides many simple animations, they tend to be rather restrictive and difficult to customize. Therefore after sharing over experience with using WIX we managed to learn alternative ways to get the effects we want to achieve.

Although IT improved exponentially through the years, enabling us to achieve a wider variety of effects to present our work, simplicity of application usually comes along with much restriction. This is especially evident in free web services. Hence, we often have to think of alternative solution when we hit a roadblock. I enjoyed the time spent on creating our group’s web report!