While exploring WedGrid I decided to try one for myself. I have been having
trouble with women lately and I though WebGrid might be able to help me out.
I began by entering seven girls (elements) with whom I am associated with.
Then with the help of WebGrid I began to determine similarities and
differences between them by entering four or five constructs such as:
It is really interesting to see the groupings of the girls on the PrinCom
chart. For example Barbra and Jody, never seem all that similar to me but,
after seeing their personalities graphed against the other girls its quite
obvious they are not the girl I'm looking for.
First Impressions
Well I have to admit I was not looking forward to this project, it all
seemed like Greek to me. After browsing through the examples it start
to make more sense. It became clear when I got the idea that there are
elements and then constructs to distinguish between elements. It was
difficult to get a handle on the terminology at first and I ended up putting
constructs where the elements should be and vise-versa. The Focus and
PrinCom charts where explained well in the "Comparing Constructions through
the Web" paper found on-line written by Mildred L G Shaw and Brian R Gaines.
I found creating constructs for the elements was difficult. The elements
which consisted of topics discussed in our Advanced Information Systems
class were very broad. It was difficult to find constructs which were broad
enough to apply to all elements. Although they were hard to come up with I
was able to find 5 or so constructs to differentiate between the elements.
Grid Outcome
The constructs which I created where able to adequately differentiate
between the topics of your class. The PrinCom and Focus charts of the
elements had well formed groupings and accurately represented the elements
specified.
Comparison of Grid
When comparing my grid with Dr. Gaines' grid it is easy to see that many of
our constructs are equivalent differing only in our terminology. Many of my
constructs are closely related to each other thus one construct used by Dr.
Gaines is used to describe two of my constructs. Through my lack of
terminology my view of the grid is some what distorted but all in all is
very similar.
To create my last grid I wanted to determine the differences between
Broadband network applications. My elements where:
The constructs were able to create an adequate picture of the differences
between each element. Although all elements seem to be quite unrelated,
through the use of the WebGrid the differences and similarities show up
quite will on the Focus and PrinCom charts.
1. Exploration
Creating My own WebGrid
With these constructs WebGrid was able to distinguish between each girl and
group girls with similar attributes together. I found this fascinating. It
was so cool!! According to the Focus chart Neila comes out on top followed
closely by Cindy and Mary. I think I'll ask Neila to marry me tomorrow.
2. Elicitation of constructs on Cpsc 547 topics
Construct Development
3. Elicitation of constructs on Broadband Network Applications
Creation of Grid
Using these elements I then created a number of constructs to distinguish
between these elements. For example, educational vs. entertainment, one
medium vs. multimedia and established vs. novel.