Thursday, September 29, 2011

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

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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.

Friday, September 23, 2011

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

Monday, September 19, 2011

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.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011


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 6th 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 6th 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 2-8th, 3-9th, 4-10th+ 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)