My Task 8 and Task 8 by Bingying (Iris) Wang
Content-wise, out of the ten pieces Iris and I curated from the Golden Record, seven of them were the same–we both chose to keep the percussion piece from Senegal, “El Cascabel” from Mexico, “Johnny B. Goode” and “Melancholy Blues” from the United States, Japan’s “Tsuru no sugomori”, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and “Flowing Streams” from China.
In terms of tools used, Iris presented her curated list through genially in the form of flags on a world map that, when hovered above, showed YouTube videos of the pieces. My Task 8 unfortunately was just a massive wall of text. Iris’ post is therefore much more user-friendly and allows the reader to make visual and audio connections to the Golden Record pieces she selected. A reader of my post would have to take the extra step of searching for the pieces if they wanted to listen to them–a time-consuming step that I should have considered!
Finally, Iris presented the parameters and criteria for her selection process in a very neat and orderly way that allows the reader to view the reasoning behind her choices right from the very start. Even without reading the entire post, the reader is able to see how Iris selected her pieces by looking at the subheadings in the post. In contrast, for my Task 8, I explained my selection process reasoning after the title of each piece individually. It is quite interesting to see how different our approaches were for this task!
After reflecting on my Task 8 and Iris’, I definitely want to streamline my posts more and make them more user-friendly and interactive, which would allow the reader to gain a clearer understanding of the content with much less hassle.
References
Huang, D. (2023, October 25). Task 8: Golden Record Curation — Didy’s Webspace. https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540ddhng/2023/10/25/task-8-golden-record-curation/
NASA. (n.d.). Voyager – music on the Golden Record. NASA. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/
Wang, B. (2023, October 18). Task 8: Golden record curation — Bingying (Iris) Wang-ETEC 540. https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540bingyingwang/2023/10/18/task-8-golden-record-curation/