Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Research and Documentation for Final Project


For this week, I've decided to go forward with my final project and work with the theme of Training people to pass the U.S. citizenship test.
I have done multiple research in the area and found some very interesting and helpful websites.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/blinstst_new.htm
This site contains very straight forward information that can be useful for people yet there's no interaction for it, therefore people can easily close the page and still feel frustrated with all text and no visuals. People tend to remember more and to visually remember better because they utilize them as mnemonic objects.

http://noticias.aol.com/inmigracion/quiz/citizenship
This AOL link is actually the most useful site i found for my final. They display different images depending on what is the theme of the question. For example: One of the question they provide is: What movement tried to end racial discrimination? It is multiple choice and also shows pictures that people can relate to the question. For this question they show a photograph of people specially Afro-Americans protesting and it seems that it is and old era. Also, either you respond (picked) the right question they provide the information related to the question and a little of history as well.


http://cltr.co.douglas.nv.us/Elections/100QuestionTest.htm
This other website is also helpful because they provide the more recent question in the test and also the answers. It is not a government page but it provides good information to prepare for the test. It does not contain pictures or other type of visuals in order to provide more help to the users


http://www.citizenshipcoach.com/citizenship_test_questions_and_answers.php
This website provides the questions in different languages to help people in their native languages. I personally think that if people are trying to pass a citizenship to become an American, they should definitely take it in English.

I am still continuing to build my question but I definitely had a good start with those pages above,

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