Hardware and software presentation

Evaluate

I can officially say that I have concluded this MYP project. I'm really proud of myself as I have worked hard and I met all the due dates. I met all the requirements for this project thus I think (hope) I'm going to receive a good grade! I have created a website on my country of origin for the community to educate themselves on Palestine. In the website I included sufficient information including the history, geography and the climate on Palestine. I added images and also moving images (gifs) and text from omgtextwow.com ( thinking outside the box). I made my website creative, easy to navigate through and really simple so the viewer can really understand and read and learn more. Of course I encountered some difficulties along the way such as finding the right information or finding the right images however I overcame them as I worked really hard through it. If you see my designs now, you will see my website looks different and that’s because I’ve added several things to enhance the viewer’s knowledge and to make it easier for him/her to understand. I made my website more amusing comparing to my designs by adding images, changing the font into a more exiting one and blending in the font color with the background! Next time though, I would make my website much more intriguing and interesting by adding more pages so I can talk about conflict and fun activities to do with your friends or family. Overall I wouldn’t change much because in my opinion, my website is really interesting, creative and detailed with information!

Create task

Here is proof that I've done my website. I've annotated too!

Plan

Bibliography

These are my resources I used to get information for my website 

Gil, A History of Palestine, pp.306ff. and p.307 n.71; p.308 n.73

Gideon Biger (2004). The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840–1947. RoutledgeCurzon. passim.

 Carl S. Ehrlich "Philistines" The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible. Ed. Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Gilbar, Gar G. (1986) "The Growing Economic Involvement of Palestine with the West, 1865–1914", in: David Kushner (ed.). Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period: political, social and economic transformation. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers ISBN 90-04-07792-8

Loftus, J. P. (1948), Features of the demography of Palestine, Population Studies, Vol 2

Louis, Wm. Roger (1969) "The United Kingdom and the Beginning of the Mandates System, 1919–1922", in: International Organization, 23 (1), pp. 73–96.

McCarthy, Justin (1990) The Population of Palestine. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231-07110-8.

Mandel, Neville J. (1976) The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02466-4

Maniscalco, Fabio (2005) Protection, conservation and valorisation of Palestinian Cultural Patrimony Massa Publisher. ISBN 88-87835-62-4.

Marshall Cavendish (2007). Peoples of Western Asia (Illustrated ed.). Marshall CavendishCorporation. ISBN 0-7614-7677-6.

Martindale, John R.; Jones, A.H.M.; Morris, John (1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: AD 527–641. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20160-8

Metzer, Jacob (1988) The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. Cambridge University Press.

Design task

We were given a task to create at least 1 design of 6 pages for our  dreamweaver MYP Project 2014. I’ve created 3 designs of 6 pages. I have created 3 and  I like all of them! Every design of mine is well-detailed, creative, colorful and original to enhance the viewer’s learning thus allowing him/her to explore in depth my website. My website contains plenty of information and fun factsabout my country Palestine and so is the history, geography, culture, etymology, climate and environment. My 1st design is calm and spacious and has room for movement. The colors and fonts are bold with clear pages however it lacks information and images. The 2^nd design, contains good information and it’s generally clear with fun activities the viewer can do. The 3^rd design however, is my favorite. I’m happiest with Design #3 as it the clearest compared to the other 2 designs. I like the font used in design #3 as it’s unique. The design of the pages in design #3 is basically everything that a  tourist would ask for. It is clear colorful, easy to use/navigate in  and understand and it stands out with its color mixtures and creativity. 

Investigate task

Investigate task

The Problem: I have chosen to make a website on my country of origin Palestine. I have chosen it as many people around the world don’t know what or even where Palestine is. They haven’t heard about it and if they have then they heard about the war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What the people don’t know is that Palestine is so much more than that. By making this website, I would like to educate people about Palestine. Palestine is very rich in its unique culture and history. It is considered the holy land  by three major religions. Judiasm, Islam and Christianity. By creating this website, I would like to make Palestine more famous and allow people to have proper knowledge of this beautiful ancient country that dates back to 10,000 BC! I will make about 6 pages in the website. The homepage, the history page, the geography page, the culture page, the facts page and the contact us page to enhance the reader’s knowledge on Palestine.

Solutions and the chosen one: I’ve come across many solutions to the problem. I could advertise my country by handing out pamphlets in public, or by creating a poster and stick it in a popular place or even making a legitimate advertisement on TV and or just make a website  for everyone to see on the internet.  In the end, I have chosen to make a website as its one of the most simple and long lasting source of information for the public. Handing out pamphlets won’t really have an impact as people can just throw it in the bin and not even take a glance at it. Make a poster is a good idea but it isn’t really as effective as making a website. And making an advertisement on TV is very costly, it won’t be shown forever and again it isn’t really as effective. I believe making a website would really be a hit and anyone across the world can see it.

Hardware and software I’ll use:

Hardware	Software
Monitor	Flamingtext
Keyboard	Dreamweaver /website maker
Printer	Google chrome
CPU	Microsoft word
Mouse	Photoshop

Areas of interaction:

The website I will be using will cover two areas of interaction. By creating this website, I’ll cause awareness, concern, and educate people on my country and this is a part of the Community Service.  And the website is concerning the intellectual , attitudes, strategies, and skills that will result in critical, coherent, and independent thought. I will produce high quality work and this covers the Approaches to learning

References:

Ridge, Lola. “Palestine.” Poetry X. Ed. Jough Dempsey. 19 Dec 2004. 12 Apr. 2014 <http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/8857/>.

"Israel- Palestine Conflict". Anti Essays. 12 Apr. 2014

Yonah, A History of the Holy Land  (tr. 1969); EscoFoundation for Palestine, Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab, andBritish Policies  (2 vol., 1947, repr. 1970); J. C. Hurewitz, Strugglefor Palestine  (1950, repr. 1968); J. W. Parkes, The Emergence ofthe Jewish Problem, 1878-1939  (1946, repr. 1970) and WhoseLands? A History of the Peoples of Palestine  (1971); A. Schalit,ed., The Hellenistic Age: Political History of Jewish Palestine from332 B.C.E.  to 67 B.C.E.  (1972); M. Russell, Palestine  (1985); J.Murphy-O'Connor, The Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide fromEarliest Times to 1700  (1986); I. Abu-Lughod, ed., TheTransformations of Palestine  (2d ed. 1987); T. Segev, OnePalestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000); B. Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem,1947-1949  (1987) and The Birth of the Palestinian RefugeeProblem Revisited  (2004); G. Krämer, A History of Palestine: Fromthe Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (2002, tr. 2008).

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