Project A rationale

For Network Media Productions Project A , I chose to do an Indigenous Australian issue. At first I was interested in doing a reference page on the Gap campaign that the government is currently trying to close the 20 year life expectancy of Indigenous People in our country. However after talking about what I was going to do with friends I discovered from a friend who is a journalist that there are people in Australia that deny that the Stolen Generation of Indigenous people ever happened, so being an Indigenous person I thought that not only will my choice of site show the facts but also show impartiality addressing one of the needs of this assignment.

The way I started to go with this assignment was html, I did get the html background and links and images working, but always looking up and trying to understand codes was really stressful. So with my remaining time I decided to drop the html approach and went with the Tumbler site. Because the tumbler site is almost a ready-made template I wanted my page to look different and play around with the structure of the page. Because copyright is a problem, I don’t have any images from years ago, I embedded the images using other sites url for there images. Hopefully I did that right! Finding information made me think of all the years of what the Stolen Generation had to experience. An example is the ‘Rabbit proof Fence’ not only was Molly taken to a home, but when she had children they were also taken as well. This made me think of a way I could illustrate the issue without a chunk of dates and information, so I chose to do a timeline and put that on my page.

Pages and websites I looked and found Ideas from, and knowledge showing site exposition, site structure, navigation and layout techniques is reconciliaction.org, being a good site that showed factual information and a good feel and navigation ease through the site.

Things I have learned while doing this assignment are tags, divs, embedding images adding youtube videos to a site. Some beginning code language for html, the only thing is working with a css page is what I need to improve on and definitely will give it another try.

How and what I think of my final piece is that it does offer a variety of reference to the current affair topic as I have government website links an overview of the topic and information on Australia’s most known opinion columnists on the stolen generations. Giving a rounded approach about issues and opinions of the Stolen Generation. http://stolengen10.tumblr.com/