My Knowledge from IDD 250

For all IDD Majors, this class is essential not only because it is required but mostly because it is a class the teaches you how to write for your website. This class had to do with the amount of Interactivity one can provide when creating a website, it is important to make it interactive for the viewers to enjoy visiting your website. This semester as you might have read in the beginning of my blogs, we had to write our thoughts and questions at least once a week, either from the material that we had to read which was Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Pause & Effect. Dreamweaver was great I learned a lot from it, and the CD was helpful. Pause & Effect was about Narrative and Interactivity, Narratives are everywhere it's a story. And Interactivity takes place everyday of our lives it could be with our family, friends, or even machines! Yes, we are often interactive with machines, take an ATM machine for example it provides us with menus so that we can reach what we want, withdraw a certain amount and if so how much or from where, checking or savings? This is one of many Interactive experiences. Games are also well-known to be interactive.
We also did a research on the web for “Are Prehistoric Japanese Underwater Pyramids real?” and how not all the information we find on the internet is the most accurate or true. Some websites believed it was true and they made you believe it and others were against it but no matter what opinion you had initially started with, when doing the research you had second thoughts if it was real or not, because the creators of those websites issued you information that would lead you to believe what they believe.
I also learned a lot from the coverage we had to do in the debates, this was an enormous interactive experience because while President Bush and Senator Kerry where debating thousands of people where watching and Blogging at the same time. We had to create a website on the debate and who we would vote for, we had to provide links to different news sites and blog sites that would support our thoughts and ideas about the debate and who we believed won.
It was also exciting to be beta testers of your game Multi Matrix and how important it is to have a fresh pair of eyes look at your work and see if it works and is it easy to navigate through. Everybody's opinion was important and in providing feedback to the creator it gives an insight on what other people see and like.
Creating our websites was our final project and it had to be Interactive, fun and educational, before doing this we had to come up with a mind map and figure out the layout for my site, this made it easier to create. It is very important to remember when creating a website that it needs to be interactive for the viewer, that it needs to be easy to navigate through and this is what I leaned in IDD 250.