Session 12 - Last session together!

This session marks the end of all TWC lectures/seminars/discussion/etc!

Mixed feelings, wonder if it's a good thing to reach session 12 so quickly!
Positive: Nearing end of Sem 1 ... 7 more Sems to go before i graduate! :D:D:D
Negative: Feels as though mid-terms just passed but guess what?! Final exams are coming in 2 weeks' time!

Today the last 4 groups did their presentations presented their websites.
*Note: My comments will most probably revolve around the same few points as there's not much points that comes to my mind*

The first group (Music) had interesting animations and navigation! Liked the idea of an auto scrollbar-slider-like thing. They had detailed information about the evolution of music, starting from the 18th Century. However, the words may seem a little too clustered because everything was placed in a single paragraph. Overall, it was great. Interested readers can check out their webbie: http://www.wix.com/keithngqq/18th-century#!page-3

As for the 2nd group (Vaccines), the website reminds me of how New York Times look like. (Probably due to the font). I thought it was good to put a timeline using the arrow to lead the reader on, from the history. They gave quite a lot of statistics, including charts to back up the information they put into the website. General comments would be that, it's easy to navigate around as well. Anyone who wants to read up about the various viruses can get information from them! And, here's their link: http://www.wix.com/twc2011/vaccinations

3rd group covered technology and food. Looks very neat as the words are quite aligned. Very structured and detailed with pictures to support as visual effects. Good job! :)

Finally, we come to the last group, doing on crime tracking technology. Really interesting topic which we haven't discussed about before. Great site with lots of information, for people who have no idea on how such technology works!

Now we're left with the final paper for TWC! Hopefully it'll be manageable for me :)

Alright, end of post! Thank you, Prof Shahi, for guiding me so much throughout this course. Overall I've enjoyed every lesson, gaining much information about technology and changing my mindset of future possibilities. :)

Session 11 - Presentations, presentations and more presentations!

OMG I can't believe that I actually forgotten to write a post for this week's session! Luckily it's still in time!

Basically, there wasn't any lecture for this week and the next because the 3 hours will be purely for presentations! Time for the various groups to present what they've done after so many weeks of hard work!

My group was the 3rd in line and we were all quite nervous due to lack of time for rehearsal. However, overall things progressed quite smoothly and classmates didn't have much questions to ask. The only problem we faced was technical errors as the videos couldn't load. No worrieds! My group and I will get it done soon, and whoever's interested can take a look and explore around!

The other groups had very beautiful websites done up as well - filled with lots of details and analysis. They weren't too technical, so
I felt that it was easy for me to follow. Learnt quite a bit from the topics they covered. I liked the website which Gideon's group created. Although they did not use Wix (which was the most common template used by all groups), it still looks simple and easy to navigate, just that they lacked the 'back' button.

Wan Ting's group also prepared GM and non-GM food. Good way to get the audiences involved!


That's all for now since I could only comment on the presentations. Looking forward to tmr's lesson and after that, it's time for final papers! :)