Here's the website I forgot to put it in my first blog:
Friday, July 15, 2011
Blog 4/Website Critique
I chose examine a quilting website because I want to learn to applique on some of my quilts that I make. While the site that I looked at was very easy to navigate and had some very interesting and fun things on their sight I was very disappointed in the lack of pictures along with their directions. I'm a show me kinda gal. I can usually pick up on things very quickly if somebody shows me how to do it, but this website is lacking in this kind of directions. They have very detailed written instructions, but they have no diagrams of any type to go along with them, for the visual type learners, like myself.
While I throughly enjoyed all the quilts, patterns and everything else this site had to offer, my advice to the webmaster would be; if you are going to offer instructions on the web then you should also offer diagrams of some sort to all the visual learners out there in cyber land. Since I have began my studies in special education I have become more aware of the differerent learning styles of different individuals and I just seem more attuned to their, for a lack of a better word, feelings in these types of situations.
So, while I enjoyed this site very much and will visit it in the future please add more diagrams and pictures to your instructions.
Blog 3/Website
As I began to the process of creating the website to recruit students to my major of Speical Education I had no idea of what I was doing. I've never even attempted this feat before, but once I went onto the site and got started with it I really enjoyed it.
The overall process of what I was writing of course was trying to entice students to the field of Special Education. I wanted the outcome of my words to be used as a tool to convince furture students at USM that SPED is the major for them. The outcome that my reader desires is for me to convince them that SPED is indeed the major for them.
My primary reader for this website is future students to USM who have not decided on a major. I want my website to be so bold and eyecatching that it will help these students to realize that SPED is exactly what they are looking for in their lives. Others who are education majors may also visit my site and decide they may want to become a dual major in SPED because my website was just that awesome and caught their eye and their attention. Some readers to the website may be very knowledgeable in the area of SPED and some may have no clue about th subject at all. This is why in making the website I need to make sure that I have as much information about the subject possible. I need to make sure that I lay out all the facts that I know about the major and make it interesting and make students truly want to take note in the field. Also, while making the website I should take age into consideration. In today's society students are not just teens fresh out of high school; they are adults from all age groups. I need to make sure that my website is appealing to those groups, from the teen fresh out of high school, to the grandma who has decided to seek that degree she never had time to obtain before.
All in all while creating any website it needs to be centered around the audience you are trying to reach, just like any other communication that is being presented.
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