Tenth 100 Word Reflection: Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert

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My absolute favorite line from this reading is “learners are doers, not recipients.” for the simple fact that this is more than true, really hits home. I for one believe that when you are given information, it definitely is up to you to do whatever you want with it, but if you actually understand the information being fed to you, you will figure out a way to implement it into your daily life, so you as a learner is actually doing something making you a doer. However if you just keep the information you’re given and store it you’re not actually learning, you’re just receiving the information brought to you.

Eighth 100 Word Reflection: Why is Academic Writing so Academic? And Annotated Bibliographies (Reading)

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As far as the author of the article on “Why is Academic Writing so Academic?” I completely and utterly agree with everything stated. Academic writing is not for everyone to understand, because it is not catered to the general public, it is meant for people who actually enjoy the approach. Now for the page on annotated bibliography, I have some experience with doing an annotated bibliography, maybe once or twice before. And the same rules and guidelines listed in the reading are close to or almost identical to what my previous professors have taught me when completing an annotated bibliography.

Ninth 100 Word Reflection: Mid-semester Course Progress Reflection

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I completed both my Mid-semester report and Annotated Bibliography in which I focused on the Brooklyn Bridge between the 1869 to 1899 time period. It was difficult to obtain information, so whatever I was lucky enough to find went into both my annotated bibliography and mid-semester report. Right now I am thinking that focusing on the Brooklyn Bridge for my final report will be my best bet, but I would also like to do something a little more, and see if I can make my final project a bigger and better one, however, not something that will be too much to handle.

Final Project Plan, Reflection # 6

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My final project will be editing the Wikipedia pages, the pages i will be focusing on are Brooklyn, Downtown Brooklyn, Vinegar hill, Rope walk and Sands Brothers (Joshua sand and comfort sand). The intention is to fill in the gaps between 1770’s to 1820’s. After research i found lot of information about these topics and it sounds like my project will be more like telling the story of Brooklyn. Story will begin with sand’s brothers by telling how they came to Brooklyn, how much land they had and how there farm land converted into blocks and the relationship of Olympia (rope making industry) with sand’s brothers.

Reflection #8: “Students Can’t Access Essential Research”

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Access to academic research has become more expensive each year. It is becoming a trend for schools to cancel subscriptions to academic journals due to insufficient financial means. Despite the fact that these journals are filled with research based articles written by researchers for free, the publishers, many of which are for-profit, sell access to the journals at inflated rates. An article can only be published in one journal at a time and cannot be posted or shared through other mediums. Because of this rule, the publishers are able to create a monopoly thus removing any preventatives that would control prices.

By contributing to public resources like Wikipedia, we are able to share this research with people who cannot otherwise access these journals. When a contributor adds cited data, we inform the reader of reliable information. This attempts to level the playing field of research. It aids people to do more thorough, extensive research because they are now able to access additional research-based sources.

Reflections #11: Project Plan

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For the final project, I plan on compiling a visual map which record NYCHA’s housing complexes. The intention is to analyze NYCHA’s housing properties in relation to their site conditions, and to see if there is a tangible connection between the typology of the site condition and date that the property was built. The typologies that will be utilized in this project are: edge conditions/neighborhood borders, waterfront/flood zoning conditions, medical center adjacency, and infrastructural fragment adjacencies. The study will be from the 1930’s to the late 1990’s.

Using CARTDB or a GIS software will enable me to precisely document these properties and parameters. I am hoping that this map can be an interactive learning tool for future students. Students should be able to freely zoom in and out of the map and hover over properties to learn about their basic information.

 

Project Plan

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For my final project I plan on focusing on the change from farm land to urban land.  I have researched many different farmers and where their land was specifically located in comparison to today’s outline.  I will be looking at the map of John Jackson’s land which provides information about who purchased what land and how much.  With this information I plan on either making a 3D diagram or an online diagram showing who purchased what and how that compares to the streets, businesses and residential areas today.  I also plan to try and find what the area really looked like in order to perfect the accuracy of my diagram.

Project Plan

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I may have to do a minimal amount of research, if any for my final project. Right now I believe I just need to digest, access, and organize all the information I have gathered, and find the correct categories to put them into for my final project. I have a rough idea of how I would like to categorize my information so hopefully all of that works out. I will be allowing my final project to live on the internet for as long as open lab or the internet may live. I will be focusing on the area near the Brooklyn Bridge once known as the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, and just unloading as much information on this space as I have access to. My project has not really changed overtime, it did stem from my Mid-semester report when I was looking at maps of the Vinegar Hill area, and noticed it, and then I chose to take this little piece of information and just allow it to manifest itself and just go in any direction it leads me in.