Immigration visualization project Reflection

Posted by Paige Wayman in American History - Laufenberg on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 10:23 am

What surprised me most about this information was that there were millions of people coming into America for better opportunities, to give themselves and there kids a better life, but most of these people that came over had no degrees or anything they just came. For this reason because they knew America would be much more beneficial than there own country. I suppose for the next two decades the immigration rate would go up even more. Because even though we are in an economic crisis, America is still a place where hope lies for many people. To present this project visually Me, sam, and Ryan decided to do a keynote because we figured it would be the safest thing to do within the little amount of time that we had. The most difficult part of this group project was collaborating work, notes, and ideas when time in school wasn't enough. We also had to double check on a lot of events to make sure we were connecting the dates to the right events. If I could do this project all over again, I would manage my time better, so that all 2 of my group members would be able to collaborate ideas with me, and be able to make a sufficient straight forward project.

Comments (7)

Maximilien Marton

Interesting way of expressing statistics. Not the normal, which is good.

Morgan Marant

Your map was very easy to follow. And direct. It was also different then what everyone else did. I enjoyed it.

Anonymous

The timeline along with the color coordination is a really interesting and eye-catching system to appeal to the audience. The map also gives the reader a better understanding of immigration.

Anonymous

Thanks for the feedback guys for your suggestion alex it makes a lot of sense. We probably could have made the dates and names of the events more separated because we had to squeeze some text into a small area, which makes it look kind of clustered.

Jennifer Wright

sooo colorful! I love that. It is completely eye catching. Though for someone like me, it has so much going on it could be a bit confusing. Good job on originality

Jessica Hinton

This was a pretty creative way to display information gathered on the time periods. Very bright, and interesting. However, I do agree with Alex about putting events on the sides, because with all of the neon bright colors, it's a little hard to see. But good job!

William Johnson

This was really interesting. I like the way your group used color and arrows on a simple world map. I think this was really outside the box. My only suggestion is that maybe you put the events and year on the side of the map so that its easier to focus on the time period (based on color) and influence (based on arrow).