Immigration Visualization Reflection

Posted by Jessica Hinton in American History - Laufenberg on

Immigration graph on Prezi


Immigration

What surprised you most about this information?  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
 It was interesting to realize that what happened during certain time periods either interested immigrants, or turned them away. It was pretty obvious that if there was more money and jobs available, that more people would want to take advantage of the opportunity. 

 Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
I honestly feel that there could be and increase and a decrease in the immigration numbers for the next two decades. Due to the economy having it's many ups and downs, it could be hard for someone to move here and start a living. There's a lot of changes that are taking place that could be troubling for new citizens. However, I do believe that once everything is taken care of, agreed upon, and settled, the immigration numbers will increase. 

Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
My group first wanted to do something really creative, and something that everyone might not choose. We started making a book on the website Tikatok. We soon realized that it wasn't working for the assignment, so we then switched to using Prezi. 

What parts of group work were challenging?
We were all new to using Prezi, so we had to get used to using that. Other than that, I think we did a good job with organizing our time periods, and displaying our information that we gathered. We worked well, and worked diligently. 

What would you do differently if you had this project to do over? If I could do something differently, I would probably want to use more animations in Prezi. Our presentation basically goes from one time period to the next, but not much movement in between. So, maybe add more things to it. 

Comments (18)

Kimberly Cayamcela (Student 2013)
Kimberly Cayamcela

I really liked the fact you and your partners chose to give information that was happening at the time but also you gave us the visual of the population. I think you could have added pictures for it to be more animated though! Give it more life, you know. :p

Sam Lovett-Perkins (Student 2013)
Sam Lovett-Perkins

I think this showed an incredible amount of research and understand of how wordly events affect influxes of immigration. I liked how direct you were with facts and how you fit them into the graph. My only suggestion is maybe showing the over all graph as a part of the path because when I got to the top of the bars I didn't entirely get that there was a bigger picture at first.

Jessica Hinton (Student 2013)
Jessica Hinton

Now that I think about it, we could've added pictures to this. When we were using another website to do our work, we had pictures, but when we switched to Prezi, we didn't really think we would need them.

Ruben Burenstein (Student 2013)
Ruben Burenstein

At first I didn't understand why the text boxes didn't fit the amount of text, but after zooming out I saw that it represented the number of immigrants in that year. I thought that this was really cool, and represented the data well.

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?

Anonymous

I agree with your statement about how the timeline could have had a lot more animation to it. What do you think about something like adding significant pictures of events on your timelime?