The Web site I would like to create has to do with culture. The story I want to tell is how I've been unChinese-ed, rather assimilated into the American culture. I will demonstrate how education or lack of identity development in curriculum, the melting pot era, fear, and media attributed to my feeling lost in my native culture and assimilating to the American culture. I'm not exactly considered "very" Chinese, because I've been told that I'm "Americanized."
The site will subsequently offer stories about others who have or haven't experienced assimilation. The site will provide suggestions on how to regain culture; provide a forum for discourse about experiences related to assimilation and effects; provide data (still thinking about what specific data); provide timeline of immigration; provide information on legislations; and the site will provide resources such as community organizations. In addition, I'm thinking about offering a few items to sell in shopping content and donate a percentage to a charity related to cultural enrichment.
The color scheme will most likely lean toward complimentary colors or monochromatic.
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I remember when we discussed target learners of our sites, you mentioned that a teacher might guide the students through the website as part of a larger curriculum. Have you considered placing a curriculum page on your site that would give teachers a guide on how to best use your site? Also,if you want students to write memoirs without teacher guidance, maybe a link on the front page that takes students directly to that page would be a good idea. Something obvious like "students click here". Just a thought. . .Jeannie
P.S. Your site is truly beautiful. I am jealous.
I also love your site and the purpose of your website is fantastic. I agree with having a curriculum page on your site to guide teachers on how to best use your site. Also, in addition to offering memoirs about assimilation and suggestions on how to regain culture, wouldn't it be great to offer a list of culturally diverse texts, children's books, etc. that teachers could incorporate into their teaching so as to prevent others from experiencing what you have, to the degree that you have? Keep up the great work! I'll be back to purchase something from your store!
Hui Ling,
wow, the subject of your site is really admirable, and a lot to take on for this class project. If this site is something you want to pursue, there might be some things you want to think about. First of all, if this is a site for teachers to guide students through, then you have to design how students will move through the site in the same way that a teacher would introduce any lesson in a classroom. For example, I would do 2 things: make the site sequential for students, and in your discussion of diversity, start broad and then narrow down to the individual level. One way you could do this: have the first page be something like "what is diversity?" or something very broad like that to define the terms and set the lesson up. I would put an arrow or something that links the student to the next page you want them to go to in the lesson (so that they are not moving aimlessly through the site). On that next page you could have diversity, etc. in its historical/cultural context (timelines of immigration or whatever--but at the level of large social groups, not individuals). Then on the next page you could move to memoirs, bringing the lesson down to the kids' personal level. From there I think Nina's idea of culturally diverse books, etc for the kids to explore the lesson further would be great. Also, more specific lesson plan ideas for teachers based on your site would be really helpful for them.
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