Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:20:35 -0600 To: j-levin@uiuc.edu From: Adrian John Kok <ajk@uiuc.edu> Subject: EdPsy 387 Homework #1
Prof Levin
Of the many personal www pages that i had cruised on the internet, i found url below to be quite interesting.
http://hem.passagen.se/leifsson/
This is a good personal WWW page because :
1. It has interesting graphics
- great colors,
- innovative "cluttered" layout
- graphics that "move"
2. It comes complete in 3 languages.
3. Links are interesting (see especially site of the week). And these are updated every week.
4. The links are user friendly
- text as well as icons are used to symbolise links
5. Personal appeal: I could identify with most of the matter that he puts up. Like the links to Andy Warhol and Keith Haring web sites
6. It plays a different tune each time one accesses the site. The music is turned on as long as you are in his site. This sort of provides the ambience while you are browsing his web site.
7. The author of the web site tells us when his www page was updated and has a counter to indicate the number of visits to his web site. Feedback on the website can also be sent to the author.
BUT I feel that the site lacks
a. simplicity or clarity
b. the interactive element
Adrian
(will be registering for the class tomorrow (Thursday) as i have just
returned from Miami for a conference)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:24:24 -0600 (CST) From: steven t rutledge <srutledg@students.uiuc.edu> To: j-levin@uiuc.edu Subject: Assignment: 1/29
Assignment results: Here is an interesting site created by an English grammar professor from Old Dominion:
http://www.odu.edu/~jpb/jbres.html
Steve Rutledge
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:43:43 -0600 (CST) From: seung-won yoon <yoon2@students.uiuc.edu> To: Jim Levin <j-levin@uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Lab assignment for Thursday, Jan 29th
I find that this web site: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/people/mhinn/ is very well designed. The person who is currently a doctoral student in the Ed Psych created her page with a very informal and reader-friendly way. First, it is simple and well-colored with nice colors and symbols; it does not include any hi-tech fancy features but include good enough information on the person's history, interest, major working field, vitae. Also, differently colored and well aligned bullets are very revealing themselves. In this page, each bullet is linked to a "sub page" with nice lay out, which gives clear division among different topics. One realization that I had was the need for a brief description about her links. There are technical terms and acronyms which netters might not be familiar with. In terms of starting point by the user, however, including search engines is certainly a big plus on this page.
Seung-won Yoon
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~yoon2
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:58:05 -0600 (CST) From: koon hwee kan <kkan@students.uiuc.edu> To: Jim Levin <j-levin@uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Lab assignment for Thursday, Jan 29th
Dear SIR,
The personal web page that I find interesting is:
Reasons:
1. It did not take a long time to load. (usually this is my selection criteria)
2. The layout is rather simple but looks clean, the 'blurring effect' of the photos and icons complement the white background. (As I scanned the web-pages of UIIUC students, I found that most of them are in the Applied Siences departments, hence, I have lowered my standard of expectation regarding the aesthetic qualities of these homepages.) - Still, most of the webpages look presentable and neat!
3. The directness in this person's ideas is interesting, kind of unusual for his background. (very different from those friends of mine who came from his native country) His good command of English and humor, make the reading very enjoyable as well.
4. The information about reading Chinese Webpage via a web browser may be useful for other interested students.
See you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Koon-Hwee
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:16:09 -0600 (CST) From: do-sik moon <d-moon1@students.uiuc.edu> To: Jim Levin <j-levin@uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: Lab assignment for Thursday, Jan 29th
I found a home page created by a Norwegian English teacher. The URL is http://home.sol.no/~andreasl/. This page is designed to provide the links, activities and projects useful for the teachers and learners of English as a second or foreign langauge.
First of all, The organazation of the page is very good. The users
can easily find the information and the links in it. The background color
will make the user comfortable and feel less tired when they use the page.
The page is divided into two columns, the right one of which is the main
screen containing six sections. Each section has a short explanation of
its content and once a user click the label of the section, s/he can
access to the linked pages related to the topic of each section.
The left column, which is much narrower than the right one, is consisted
of the links. These look like buttons and are visually well organized. The
function of this part is to provide the links. Some of them are overlapped
with the ones in the main screen but there are new information such as
the developer's personal information. It seems to be a good idea to
provide the same information in the different shapes.
It contains lots of information concerning Norway. If the learner of
English use this page, s/he can have an opportunity to learn about Norway
through English. I have been very interested in the Scandinavian countries
so that this netseraching was a very nice chance to experience one of
them. Also, I could see some parts of Norweigian English education
situation. Since I am so much involved with Korean and American English
education situation, it was really a new experience to expolre this page.
If we properly use the Norwegian materail in English provided by this
page, we can carry out really interesting cross-cultural activities in
English class.
Dosik
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:06:06 -0600 To: j-levin@uiuc.edu From: jmeltzer@uiuc.edu (Jason Meltzer) Subject: Personal Web Pages
The personal web page I found is close to home.
http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~messingr/
It is the web page of a electrical engineering student here at U of I.
I especially like her use of frames and since she has very few graphics on the homepage, it loads very quickly.
The tltles of related pages are interesting and varied. She also annotates her links so they are actually complete sentences.
There are also links to her friends' home pages but they are within her frames so you can get back to her personal pages easily.
Jason Meltzer
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:44:50 -0600 To: j-levin@uiuc.edu From: khitam Alghazo <kalghazo@students.uiuc.edu> Subject: homeworkHi Professor levin,
http://cctr.hmkc.edu/user/mnabulsi/index.html