Reflection 11/29/2011

Today I used imovie and it seemed kind of hard to use probly because it is my first time to use it. Im working on a project with alan for the project for the digital etiquette. I made some progress today I made a outline so about a small part of it is already done. I give myself a 7 for today because I was on task but I wasnt on task for most of the time. There was some times when I zoned out during class working on the project.

The plan for the project is on digital etiquette and it is going to be a movie. It is a public service anouncement on how it is digital etiquette. The movie will be real short because it wont be like a long one itll just have some pictures and a small clip probly because today is just the beginning. There is always room for improvement and editing and revising to be done.

Design Brief

What is the general problem your group is trying to solve? or

What is the design problem you are trying to solve?

Im doing my project on digital acsess

Concept: (What do you want the user to think about?

What message do you want the user to get?)

Everyone must have digital acsess it dont matter who you are

Sources: cited

Identify and analyze appropriate source of information you will need to solve your problem.

Any Research?

Some website that led me to the digital acsess defenition but I forgot what it was

Actors?

None yet

Materials / Props?

No

Sound / Music?

Nothing

Software?-

Nope

Specifications:

Format: (web video (320 x 240) or PAL D1/DV widescreen

Pixel Format: Square pixels or DV Footage

Tools: (Photoshop, illustrator, iMovie, Premier, Final Cut Pro, After Effects)

Length: (15 – 60 seconds)

I have no idea what any of that is so I have nothing to say about that at the moment

PSA worksheet

1. What issue/ topic did you choose?

I chose to do digital acsess for my project

2. Why is this important?

Most people cannot get internet acsess because of their budget

3. Who do you want to reach? (target audience)

The people who cant afford internet

4. What is the behavior your looking to change?

How people get the internet in their home

5. Why doesn’t the audience already engage in this behavior?

The government is greedy and only wants money

6. What emotional appeal can you make?

That everyone should get digital acsess

7. Belonging; Power/Control; Fun: Safety;

Depends on how much people use it

8. Put your audience in a situation/scenario where the issue would come up in their lives.

Some of my family cant get internet cause thay cant afford it

9. Where are they? (setting)

In the valley

10. Who is there? (characters)

My tio My tia My cousins

11. What’s’ going on around them?  ( ambient sound)

They cant get internet

12. What are they saying? (dialogue)

They need digital acsess

13. Who is message brought to you by? ( Station; organization)

This message is brought by me

Notes

1.Digital Communication is the electronic exchange of information.  (10 point)

2.Who uses Digital Communication?Everyone who has acsess to interet.

3.Southpark cartoon talks about how on Facebook can change your life.   (10 point)

4.How do we use Digital Communication? Facebook email and text messages .(10 point)

5.What is the potential for misuse? Cant get a good job have a bad digital footprint (10 point)

6.Where is the danger for misuse that impacts you daily? People think bad of you (10pt)

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 FACEBOOK MANNERS

7.What is the expected time you believe is appropriate to change your FB status? When you feel like it (10 point) -

8.What is your opinion about FB manners? They help you have good  digital ettiquette (10 point)

9. What are the benefits of Digital Communication? Talk to your friends get the news (10 points)

10.  What is your opinion? Is this proper use of digital communication? I don’t know, I cant see it what im supposed to anser this question cause there is nothing to think about it. (10 point)

My Digital Footprint

I looked up for myself on google using my facebook name and all I found was my profile on facebook, that's all. I looked up my fist name and last name of what is on my report card and other things and I got nothing I found some soccer player and a musician. And last I looked up what my family calls me and found some guy with a youtube account who plays basketball and a boxer. Of what I have so far I think that my digital fooprint is good theres a small number of things I have.

Research

Unequal Acsess is how internet is gotten by people in a country the poorer people get less internet and badder internet than rich people get. The access could be like in Canada Japan South Korea England and some other countries where they state and provider of broadband pay for 1/3 of the cost of internet. Some towns and cities wire the houses and schools and they get the use of streets and power lines. In other plaes they try to lower the income so they can make broadband for the people and schools and libraries and other stuff or places that use internet. improving infrastructure generates more jobs, greater business investment, and higher tax revenues. The long-term economic benefits of better Internet infrastructure.This will make a digital footprint that is better than the one that was here 20 years ago or 20 years in the future if the broadband internet had the equal access like they do in Canada and other countries that have the income and access to the streets and power lines for internet baing able to have internet. 


         
  I GOT SOME OF THIS INFORMATION FROM INTERNET FOR EVERYONE WEBSITE THT WAS A LINK FROM THE TEACHERS BLOG

Investigation Digital Acsesss

I choose to do Uneqal Acsess to do for my project

Unequal acsess is what makes the country fall behind in technology out of all the othr place in the world. The internet acsess is expensive and most people cant afford good internet acsess. It isnt fair to other people who cant affrod intenet.

How can your digital footprint affcet your future

Facebook converstations and other stuff like that can ffect you future. If you go to a job interview you can be seen on the internet and it can be determined how you can get it or not.

Digital Acsess Sentences

America Offline is how many people there are that dont have internet.
Digital Divide impacts student in how they get information like some schools or homes dont even have any accsess at home because of cost of internet.
Any information will not be able to be acsessed if there is no internet acsess to the internet mobily 
The country will be really low in the internet acsess if the lack of digital acsess is still bad
The acsess would be better if the cost for intenet was lower

DIGITAL ACSESS

America Offline is trying to help people who don't have internet accsess at home

I use digital divide when I go on the internet and use the computer

Poor people have unequal accsess than rich people does

The first pilgrims pioneered the USA when they first came

Vocabulary sentances

Etiquette- Apolite prson has good ettiquette
Conduct- Conuct is the way you act
Courtesy- The actg or expression a person is
Flame- flaming is a really bad thing to do
Troll- the internet has alot of mean troll people
Anonymous-  The people on the internet that go on a website without account is anonymous
Emoticon- A smiley is often used as a emoticon to show feeling
Obvious- Its so obvious we need to go to school
Tone- the way your tone is sounds happy
SMS- text message is sent sms
Ethical- in 1s grade they teach you the ethics good and bad
Unethical- some guy on the street will show you unethical behavior
Legal- it is allowed by the law
Boolean serach- A search way to get less results from a research
URL- the url to the download is broken

etiqet vocabulary

ETIQUETTE	guides us in proper behavior on the Internet. There are widely accepted rules of behavior to follow when you're online. It is very important to learn and follow these rules.
CONDUCT	personal behavior; way of acting
COURTESY	a courteous act or expression
FLAME	A searing e-mail or newsgroup message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh, and often personal, terms. Flames are an unfortunate, but inevitable,
TROLL	To deliberately post derogatory or inflammatory comments to a community forum, chat room, newsgroup and/or a blog in order to bait other users into responding.
ANONYMOUS	something or someone that is unknown; undiscovered. Anonymity, the state where a person's name and other personally identifying ...
EMOTICON	A smiley is often used in text communications to convey an emotion with a message.
OBVIOUS	easily perceived or understood clearly
TONE	the manner of expression in writing
SMS	Short for Systems Management Server, a set of tools from Microsoft that assists in managing PCs connected to a local-area network (LAN).
ETHICAL	is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and bad, ...
UNETHICAL	behavior should be reported Unethical Behavior - It's Impact on ... After all, unethical behavior that is not illegal frequently falls in a grey
LEGAL	based on or concerned with the law
BOOLEAN SEARCH	A type of search allowing users to combine keywords with operators such as AND, NOT and OR to further produce more relevant results. For example, a Boolean search could be "hotel" AND "New York". This would limit the search results to only those documents containing the two keywords.
URL	Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

Self EVALUATION

         For my project I gave myself a 4 which is an 80. I have not gotten the evaluation of 3 6th graders so I don't get an 5 or 6 cause I don't even have one evaluation from them. I have 12.... no I have more than 12 posts on my blog I have 19 posts which is beyond what I am supposed to have so I should get a decent grade by now. I have a game which is simple real simple but it still explains the design cycle in a good way and is understandable so I think that I deserve a good grade which is about a 3 or 4
         My investigate paragraph is good I answered all the questions but theres not all in complete sentances. And I posted the tools I chose. It has 4 different criterions on how it is used and why I gave it that grade.  
          I give myself a good grade for plan, it has what Im going to do. It also says what Im going to do for my project. It has my plan on how Im going to use my time and how long itll take me to complete. So I decide to give myself a good grade like 75 or 80.
          For design I gave myself a 85. It has 3 sample designs of the project. and shows how itll be in a order.

DAY 22 Reflection

I evaluated some people today and have mae some progress in it. The paper is not so much filled but it has something on it which is better than nothing.

CREATE REFLECTION

19. Did I follow my plan?
At first I followed my plan, my first plan was to make a flipbook and it was
a little hard to do because I couldn't save it so I changed to a game that I could save and
open again to  continue working on it.

20. How could I have improved on my creation?
I could've used my time more wisely, not thinking what am i gonna do next and
what am I supposed to do now I don't understand

21. What will I do this time that I did not do this time?
I will use my time wisely in class and when I make a decision I will stick wih it
and not change my mind somewhere tords the end of when the projects halfway done
and I don't have nothing of progress done .

DAY 20

I still don't got the link working but it takes it to the questions page, OH WELL. Ill just have to keep it the way it is besides Ill probably try to get it to work and it'll probably mess up the project and ill have to start all over again. Next class it has to be evaluated and I only put a few minutes into makeing it so Ill probably not get a 6 or 5 but thats all right.

Create Part 2

Today I tried to see if the link that is for the project worked. It didn't so I'll try later to try to get it to go to directly to the game. Wensday is when I'll try again to get the gmae to work.

Create

This is the create step of the design cycle in my project. It took a while to make because I couldn't figure out what to do for it,but the I got it. I made a game (YAY). The game is about trying to shoot letters to match the defenitions.
Here is a link to get to the game thing.
http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_4/PvBf3.htm

My total was about 175 minutes so if I divide that by 60 then I get about 29.1 hours to finish the project.

I will try to give about an hour a day to complete the project.

9/28- 1 Hour

9/29- 1 Hour

10/1- 1 Hour

10/2- 1 Hour

10/3- 1 Hour

10/4- 1 Hour

10/5- 1 Hour

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Im going to make a fGame tool whatever it is for my project.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? 

It must be 2 minutes or less and it must be a simple project so a 6th grader can understand.

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

For guests using the Gme Tool it is alot of typing and design to do. There is also only 2 minutes which is probly not enough to explain something like the design cycle.

13. How will you "test" your project?

I will show the project to my sister cause shes a 6th grader and guy in 6th grade who goes to my church and some other 6th grade people and ask them how much they learned form it.
Design Specifications
- 6th graders will understand the design cycle
- Under 2 minutes
- Work online


Test
after my presentation I will ask the 6th graders what they learned from the presentation and have them write something about it.

WK6 SA Investigation Summation

I give myself a 3-4 for the investigation. Its not bad but it's not entireley good. I am not good at getting a 5-6 on any project because ive only gotten 3-4 mostly. The problem is stated I selected and analyzed and acknowleged resources. Its all done but kind of incomplete like its missing something. Im not sure what it is but it is missing something. So Igave myself a 3-4 because its good but not too good.

DESIGN

         SAMPLE 1 PLAN DESIGNS

     Scene 1: There title of the slide. The Design Cycle
     Scene 2: Explain what it is
     Scene 3: List the steps
     Scene 4: Picture of the design cycle wheel
     Scene 5: The End

          SAMPLE 2 PLAN DESIGNS
     Scene 1: Title
     Scene 2: Steps of the design cycle
     Scene 3: Explain design cycle
     Scene 4: Picture of the design cycle
     Scene 5:The End
      
        SAMPLE 3 PLAN DESIGNS  
     Scene 1: Title
     Scene 2: Explain the design cycle
     Scene 3: List the steps
     Scene 4: Explain the steps
     Scene 5: Picture of the design cycle
     Scene 6:The End

COMICMASTER

COMICMASTER

Measurement	Sore (1-5)
Themes	4
Text	2
Characters	3
Simplicity	5
Total	14

            I gave this a 4 in themes because theres themes but theyre limited themes and theres only about 5 themes, but theres more than in flipbook so i gave it a 4. Text is a 2 because when you put in text then the little thought bubble kind of takes up a entire panel. Theres not alot of characters cause theres only 4 but they have different poses and i gave it a 3. Its almost difficult to use and it has limited panels so I gave it a 5 cause its real hard to use. The points added up to 16 which is good i guess.
           There are about 3 themes in comicmaster. They are a building in some kind of swamp and in the street. There cant be anything added to the backround except for characters and little objects. There are themes and theyre okay so i gave it a 4.
             The text is hard to place it in the panels cause the text bubble or speech bubble or the thought bubble takes up a entire panel. Theres no sizing button on it so theres no way to make it bigger or smaller and dragging it out makes it kind of worse cause the text will get cut off. There is no special fonts or font size to make the font bigger or smaller. So I gave the text in this Comicmaster a 2 cause the text is really and if there is a way to change the text size or anything like that then it should be more noticeable.
             The characters are limited in this program cause theres only four of them. There is some wired purple guy some green guy some blue guy and some other guy. The characters could be put into different poses but theres only a few and they have to be dragged so it takes a while to get them into place. Other than the 4 characters there are objects that can be added like a car and a bunch of other stuff but some of the things thats supposed to be bigger than a character is way smaller and whats supposed to be smaller is way bigger, I don't remember a cell phone bigger than a car.
              The Comicmaster is really hard to use with some complicated things on it. I was almost there for an hour trying to put a backround in the comic thing. SO i just gave it a 5 cause it is real hard to use.                                                   

Arcade Game Tool

Game Tool

Measurement	Score (1-5)
Themes	2
Text	3
Characters	0
Simplicity	1
Total	6

                      Theres no themes and you have to create your own theme so i gave it a 2. The text is good because it uses the computer fonts. Theres no characters so i gave it a 0. its real simple so i gave it a 1. 
                       The themes are ... well there are themes and you get to choose them but Im not sure. The themes are preset. But its good because there are unlimited themes but since there are no pre loaded themes i gave it a 2 cause you get your themes already there but there is not any themes you can choose from.
                        The text is is like using microsoft word also so the words are a font type. Using the keyboard to write words is much easier than using the mouse to write words The text is in black but Im not really sure if the color can be changed. I decided to give it a 3 because there is typing to make a text.
                        There are no characters so I gave it a 0 because there are none not even some pre loaded characters that you can use. Butt then again there are unlimited characters because you can make them yourself. But I still give characters a 0.

Day 2

Today I decided to do a game kind of project. I went on Ms.Hinojosa's blog and found a arcade game tool and comic master tool and i decided to use the arcade game tool cause it looks easier to use. Arcade Game tool lets you to create a arcade game. Arcade game uses the internet and questions you make ti create it. It uses different games to choose to be made of.

Area of Interaction: Community and Service , Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Significant Concept: Design Cycle can be used to solve problems

Unit Question: How can my learning help my community? How do I make Sound Choices?

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) Identify the Problem

1. What is the problem you need to solve? Explain to a 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation (3d PPT movie game poster)

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? Buildings and construction have the design cycle to make them

3. How will this project serve my community? It will teach little kids about the design cycle

4. How can my learning help my community? Share ideas with the people around you

5. How do we live in relation to each other? People are frends

6. How does this help others? It teaches them about the design cycle

7. What are the requirements for this assignment? Make the design cycle easy for a 6^th grader to learn it

8. What is the Design Cycle? A way to make projects

REFLECT on your learning.

Day 2

9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things your learned about the Design Cycle:

Day 3

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment?

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

13. How will you "test" your presentation?

REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING

PLAN:

14. Brainstorm ideas. Use the chart below

IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf found in schoology under “materials”& then files

15. What idea did you choose to demonstrate the design cycle and why did you choose it?

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements?

17. Use the story board paper below to plan your presentation.  Include how many levels you will have, what will be on each level, how will you include teaching skills to young students, and what will your questions be about.

story board.pdf found in schoology under “materials” & then files.

18. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days:

REFLECT on your learning

EVALUATE:

20. How could you improve your presentation?

21. Does your presentation meet all of the requirements?

22. Share your presentation with at least 2-8^th, 3-9^th, 4-10^th+ friends. What did he/she like about your presentation?

23. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve?

24. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer?

25. How can my learning help my community?

26. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6)

ATTITUDE:

27. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying

"it's too hard". Explain your answer:

28. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6)