Summary of Class

I entered this class with a firm understanding of interactivity and what it means to be interactive. Through the course of this class I am pleased to say that my foundation has been solidified in this area.
The class reading we had to do for the course involved the use of textbooks, but was not limited to text books. The Dreamweaver text was very useful because it helped remind me of many things in Dreamweaver that I had forgotten about and it also taught me many new things that I had not previously been aware of. This is very useful because Dreamweaver is one of the strongest tools to use to make a means of interaction for many people to communicate through. The Pause and Effect book was a lot harder to understand and I really didn’t like it. I found it very abstract and hard to understand.
This class taught me a few things about interactivity. The first of which, and perhaps the most important, was that interactivity is all about the group. This may sound obvious but it is impossible to interact by yourself. There needs to be a group. This was an underlying message that was in everything we did during this course. We had to review that game and provide feedback so that the game could be improved and made a lot better. A group was needed for this and not an individual. The advantage that a group brings is diversity. No one in the group is a like and in possession of the exact same amount of skills as well as the exact same tastes. This allows for a creator to get a wide range of responses that can help them make changes for the best and improve the overall quality of the final product. The differences between people were also shown with the debate website project as well as the fact or fiction project. These two projects showed just how different people are through their beliefs. Many people had firm reasons for voting that would not be changed by whatever another candidate for presidency said. Also the fact and fiction showed that people also have firm reasons that they use to decide whether or not they believe something to be true. It taught me that I need to be more careful of my source selection when I try to prove something.
The other thing that I got out of this course was that interactivity is what you make it to be. You can make things with degrees of interactivity. The more involved people are the more likely they are to enjoy the experience.
Overall I found this class to be very helpful in setting up a solid foundation on just what it means to be interactive.

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Here's the link to my website. Hope you all enjoy it. Snowboarding Basics

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Thanksgiving Review
I went around after Thanksgiving dinner hunting down relatives to view my website and found that the ones that were too stuffed with food to move were the easiest to get to look at my website. I asked my mom, aunt, grandfather, and uncle to all look at my site. All four of them were impressed with it, but that's no surprise because my family doesn't really have the most computer saavy people in it. Anyways, they all liked the content and found it to be very informative to someone who didn't know anything about snowboarding, which was all of them because none of them know how to snowboard. My aunt found the gear page one of the more interesting ones because of the skeleton that was wearing the gear. One of the things that I brought up to them which they thought would be a good idea was the subject of rollovers. I hadn't yet put them in when I showed off my site. When I told them about how I was going to have them they all agreed that would be a good idea. Another thing was the Quicktime movie that I was planning on making to have playing when the index page was opened. They also found that to be an interesting idea that they would like to see. Other than that though my family didn't really provide me with a lot of critical feedback.