This task moved me outside of my comfort zone, as someone who rarely uses handwriting.\u00a0 I was not overly creative and certainly did not focus on the visual element of my work.\u00a0 In contrast, Ryan chose to handwrite a poem for this task, and it was refreshing to experience his creative approach.<\/p>\n
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His poem highlighted how visually artistic poetry can be, and how expressive handwriting can be.\u00a0 I hadn’t considered any emotional connection or communication to the written letter I was forming, but upon reflection, I did realize that once may have been the case with my handwriting as well.<\/p>\n
I appreciate Ryan’s engagement with the course and found that this task, in particular, showed his thoughtful interaction with the activities.\u00a0 It is wonderful that we can see how our classmates tackle the different tasks in this course and it opens up different ideas and opportunities for all of us as we spend time reviewing each other’s work.<\/p>\n
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Jeevan Pannun – Golden Record Network Assignment<\/a><\/p>\n It is always interesting to me to see how people approach the same activity in a completely different manner than I do.\u00a0 Jeevun and I had several selections from the Golden Record curation assignment in common, and his network analysis summarizes the reasons behind each song, taking into consideration the selections and reasoning for each of our “group” members.<\/p>\n I worked with the network assignment in a completely different way and didn’t look at others’ motivations or lists at all.\u00a0 I worked with the movable network, trying to create patterns and observe the visual connections, and only speculating on reasons.\u00a0 With the visual network I also focused more on the popularity of the songs and grouping them than I did on the people who selected them.<\/p>\n Our differing approach to the network analysis was also evident within Jeevan’s summary of our reasons for selecting the individual songs.\u00a0 It seems that in many cases we had quite different criteria for selection, although still came up with a relatively similar list.\u00a0 This assignment and analysis provided insight into the different ways that many of us analyze a series of options and also in how we make connections and review information.<\/p>\n Aaron Ko – Golden Record Curation<\/a><\/p>\n Aaron’s Golden Record curation stood out to me because the description of his criteria actually sounded quite similar to mine.\u00a0 Many of the others that I reviewed seemed to have a very different way of approaching the selections.\u00a0 Then I saw the screenshot of his spreadsheet.<\/p>\n I didn’t include my spreadsheet in my post, but that is also how I classified and organized the different songs based on the different groupings that I had determined to be relevant.\u00a0 Although much of my interest and focus in connections is on people who think differently than I do, I have to admit it was cool to see a thought process that seemed so similar.<\/p>\n Brian Ham – Attention Economy<\/a><\/p>\n I am so impressed that Brian was able to complete the User Inyerface in 7 minutes!\u00a0 Reading through Brian’s analysis, much of it was similar to my experience, with the exception of the password and email page.\u00a0 I found the checkboxes, captcha and demographic information amusing and annoying, but not difficult if you paid attention.<\/p>\n Brian found the email and password page simple and that drives me crazy!\u00a0 How did I get so caught up on that?\u00a0 I agree with him that our age and familiarity with the evolution of websites and poor interfaces might make some of this easier for us, but how I wasn’t able to just try clicking on the button to proceed on the password screen now baffles me.\u00a0 The way we interact with interfaces is an interesting thing to consider and the way in which we can be manipulated and tricked is a valuable lesson.<\/p>\n Well done.<\/p>\nLink #3<\/h3>\n
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