today I was taught about imovie I do not get it at all, I guess I did an outline wich had what the title was and the cast members i think i did it wrong. then i talked to odalys about our plans for the project.oday I was taught about imovie I do not get it at all, I guess I did an outline wich had what the title was and the cast members i think i did it wrong. Then i talked to odalys about our plans for the project. We tried to figure something out about our video but then she left.
Next time i will start the fractions, and i will have a story baord. I will have completed the rest. I will need a lot of help. My attitude in quia was reallly bad because i was reallly mad about the brochure its just not fair!

design breif.

Design Brief:

Problem:

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

My group is trying to solve the problem of people not knowing how to use the internet or even that the internet has revolved enough to be able to chat with someone across the world. 

What is the design problem you are trying to solve?

I want to show that the internet has evolved enough to talk to anyone around the world.

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

I want them to acknowledge that a lot of families in the world do not know how to use technology.

What message do you want the user to get?)
i want the user to understand that we have to be the change that we wish to see in the world.

Sources: cited

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

Any Research?

Actors?

Materials / Props we will need a beach environment and a chinese environment so also everything that comes with it.

Sound / Music chinese talk 

Software?- were using microsoft

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)

Digital Communication impacts my digital footprint because the world now revolves around electronics so it is important that people know how to use the telephone, computer, etc. If they don't then it can really affect the the learning. In this class period Odalys and i research topics that were good. We compared what video we could do using the topic, the best one that we had was digital communication. Then we went on Google and found 10 facts about digital communication. We found many interesting facts about how much cellphones are used now a days and we talked about effects that could be if we didn't now how to use them. 

• 5.3 bln mobile subscribers.
• between 500 million to 1 bln people will have access to the internet by 2015. 
• text messages sent by U.S. citizens is around 110 billion 
• 2.5 billion text messages are sent per day in the us
• china does not use facebook
• more than 100 million yahoo accounts were active in August 2011 
•  355 million hotmail accounts were active in 2011
• 175 million people log onto facebook everyday 
• Facebook is translated in over 100 languages

(http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/01/facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-world-economic-forum-davos/)(http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm)
<http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/digital-communications-affect-behavior.htm>
<http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats> .  

 



How does your topic impact your future digital footprint?  
You must post a complete paragraph explaining your progress today.  You should have a minimum
of 10 facts with numbers posted to your blog.  What do your peers need to know about your topic
to help them have an appropriate digital footprint 20 years from now?  FACT

Digital Access

1. America Offline-  America Offline means that there is millions of Americans that do not have a daily bases access to the internet, in a world that now revolves around it. Also that if we had at least one bar of internet more than there would be more than a million jobs more.
2. digital divide- Digital Division means that there is a gap between the access that people get to internet and other communications.
3. Unequal Access- Unequal access  to internet can impact your future because internet allows you to connect to other countries and history without ever going.
4. Innovators- lack of internet access impact us as a country because it allows us to have communications to other countries to sometimes resolve conflicts so that there is no war.
5. What are the options for better Access? the options for better access is to move or to contact the government.
6. Explain the Final Recommendations? -the final recomendations are ways to have a voice in the say so of the internet access.
7. What could be done to increase internet access and create more choices for communities nationwide? I believe the people should have more voice in their government systems and should demand equal access through out the world. 
8. What actions need to be taken to keep the internet open for users and innovators? more people should be taught how to use the internet and showed have more computers in other much poorer countries. 

ETIQUETTE	People have to be etiquette in technology because if they are not then they will not have the privilige of use the computers.
CONDUCT	The conduct of hackers is unacceptable because the may hurt peoples feelings.
COURTESY	My teacher had the courtesy of explaining everything again to me because i was confused the first time.
FLAME	Thankfully I have never had a flame email because I think it would really hurt my feelings.
TROLL	Sometimes students think its funny to get on the class blog and mess around in the conversations of other, but don't they know they are just being trolls?
ANONYMOUS	One time I got an anonymos chocolate heart box from some one, and I wondered eho it was.
EMOTICON	All teenagers in text use emoticon by using smily faces.
OBVIOUS	It was obvious that the guy stalking me liked me.
TONE	The tone in the story is so sad that it made me cry.
SMS	SMS is short for Systems Management Server, but I didn't know that on the quiz.
ETHICAL	America needs more ethical people, because  now a days its hard to find a good guy.
UNETHICAL	The unethical creep tried to sexualy harrase me, but i was like, "Oh no you didn't," and i called the police.
LEGAL	It is no legal to smoke mariguana in california.
BOOLEAN SEARCH	I don't actually know what Boolean search is but i guess its about using and, but, and or.
URL	When you click on the URL, its to type in a website.

Evaluation

          I would evaluate myself a 5.5 considering the grade that the 6^th graders got. Considering the circumstances that the 6^th graders were put in, they both acquired a grade of 70 each. I did the necessary and read everything that Ms. Hinojosa posted online. I kept up to date and worked independent. Although I did get some help from my peers and I took criticism in a positive way in order to help me achieve a good learning project. I redid my project several times in order to get to Prezi which I learned form my classmate Deborah.       

          At the very beginning I had chosen to create a video.  As I investigated on them I quickly noticed that they were actually not so easy so I changed it to a flipbook and comic strip. Then I noticed that my flipbook was taking forever because I was in page 120 and burly had investigated. After all that I decided to do Prezi because my classmates were using it and it seemed a lot simpler then what I was doing. I had to go through failure in order to conquer the design cycle. 

      My design was quite a mess because I didn't really focus on it. Since I kept changing my investigation on projects, I did not really consider a design. Although when I did get to Prezi I made a sample one and I told my self what I was going to do each day. On day September 23, I made a chart showing what my ideas were for the flip book and comic strip. As I went through it, I decided that the flip book idea was not going to work. The movement of the pages was going to take too many pages and with little movement. When I decided to do the Prezi I dedicated my time to see how Prezi worked.

          My plan was a simple not very elaborate system that I was using. I created a chart showing what I was going to do each day. Since I changed my two comparisons many times I kept going back and fixing my chart. When I was confused on what was in stored for me that day I would always go back and see my chart. Even though it has the days counted up to seven for each one I took twice that amount. I always had it on the back of my mind that that day would actually take two days. I would also go back to the www.mypdtp.blogspot.com and see what I had to do that day.

            Creating my final decision was actually very fun. As a result of creating this I learned a new way to make a very creative and learning page. Prezi allowed this product to have a learning experience upon the 6^th graders.  In about 30 minutes I had created the whole project and made it very colorful. In my opinion my creation could of  been much more elaborate and maybe longer sentences. Considering it was for the 6^th graders I believe it was very good.

          Evaluating your project is always hard. Even though I did it all as asked I know there was room for corrections because considering what I did do I know that I could have put in a little more effort. At first the whole project was very confusing I had no idea what I had to do. Then as I went back reviewed my study buddy and the class web, I noticed that everything that I needed to know was right there in front of me. So at first I didn’t have anything and what I did have was quite bad so I went back and I redid everything. I believe that this was not just a learning experience for the 6^th graders, but for me too.

          Knowing for a fact that I got to do the Prezi because of my peers I was very appreciative. In technology there was times when I would goof around and not listen, but I always knew when it was time to get serious. At first I hated this project and I was sure I was going to fail the class but I got over it put my positive face on and worked hard. I tried to be as independent as possible and my work was done. I was proud to present my Prezi to the 6^th graders because I knew how much effort went into it.  

My project (Create)

design cycle on Prezi

Evaluate

1. How can my learning serve my community?

         My learning can serve my community in many ways. The biggest one is that I can use the design cycle process in order to stop global warming. I can investigate more on ways my community pollutes and and also ways the whole world pollutes. Then I can create a detailed plan to stop the pollution. As I put my words into actions I will add more people to help. Finally I will evaluate the progress made and see if I actually helped out my community.

2. How can your future projects become better?

        My future projects can become better by investing more time into the research section of my project. For this research I did not get a background check of how sixth graders learn best. For next time I will ask the group of people that I'm testing on, how the learn best. this way the project will be made to reach their requirements in learning. This will make my project more acceptable for them and allowing them to learn the design cycle. 

3. What have you learned about yourself and what you will continue to do or not do and why?

        I have learned that I need to believe in my self a lot more. Because I actually know what I'm doing, but then I start doubting myself, then I get it wrong. I have to trust myself with no doubts. Also to listen and us my resources, in this case the www.mypdtp.blogspot.com. This is because it has all the steps in order for the class day.

4. How do you feel about your final product? What would you rate yourself on the Rubric scale of 1-6 for each part of the Assessment Criterion?

       I think my project was a success though the students could of done better because my "experiment" was contaminated. I would rate my self a 6 because I put a lot of effort into it. I took my time reviewed my notes and the class webs. the students seemed to really understand all the concepts and the information behind the pictures, though they were rushed and made careless mistakes. I over all enjoyed doing this project because it will only make my world a better place.

5. What would you do differently in regards to your planning and execution of your plan?

      In my execution I would probably have had added a lot more details and a lot more color so the sixth graders could have learned more. I would have made every caption at least a paragraph long. The pictures more like a collage so there would of been more verity so the student could of seen more examples. In over all I think I did pretty good considering that it was a last minute change. I also get how to use prezi now.

Evaluate

Evaluate

         Today two 6th graders took the quiz both came out to 70 and I believe sincerely that I didn't even get to explain my steps. I took my time for this and I was not able to present it good =(. Even though they both had a 70 I believe they did know the process, but the questions were not simplified to a 6th grade level. My questions were more for a 9th grader rather than a 6th grader. I also think that there should of been more sixth graders so that it wasn't just 2 taking the quiz. that lead to rushing and not

Evaluate

 Name___________________________

Date__________

Period__________

Design Cycle check for understanding Quiz

         

          Directions: circle the answer that you best think is correct. each question will be worth 10 points . At the bottom make any comments, directed to the presentation and ways it could of been better. put a star on the right side of your name in order to recieve 5 extra points.

1. What is the first process in the design cycle ?
a)evaluate
b)design
c)plan
d)investigate

2. What do you have to do in the plan stage?
a) design a product/solution
b) think of possibilities for a solution
c) design a procedure
d) see what the problem is

3. Once i have finished the create stage what is next?
a) plan
b)design
c)investigate
d)evaluate

4. What is the order of  the design cycle?
a)evaluate plan design create investigate
b)investigate plan design create evaluate
c)investigate design plan create evaluate
d)design plan create evaluate investigate

5. What do you do in the evaluate stage?
a)look at the end product
b)make the product
c)identify the question
d)design a product/solution

6. What comes before design?
a)evaluate
b)create
c)investigate
d)plan




7. How many steps are in the design cycle?
a)7
b)10
c)5
d)4

8. What happens in create?
a) make actual project
b)design product/solution
c)identify the problem
d)think of a plan

9. What comes before making the final product?
a)plan
b)evaluate
c)design
d)create

10. What is the design cycle good for?
a)figuring out mysteries
b)breaking down a form to find the answerto a problem
c)a good way to solve a problemd) all of the above


*******bonus (5 points)
11. What does MYP stand for?
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12. Give an example of a procedure that can use the design cycle
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comments:

Create

     MY PROJECT

Today I got to expirence prezi. It was really interesting and I really liked it, so I decided to change the flip book for it. I had also started the flipbook but it turned out to be to much , I went to 120 pages and I only had "inves" spelled out. Deborah told me to try prezi . I really liked it and it was so simply. I finished in that same time period. I would rate myself a 6 because I worked really hard and it is simply to understand the information. It is also very eye catching so it will help the 6th grader understand and remember. 

Create

i have decided to change to prezi

Plan

My total is 390 minutes divided by 60 that is about 6.5 hours, Now I can plan how I will use each day from now until OCTOBER 11 to complete my project
9/28-Day 1--50minutes--investigate what is the best idea for 6th graders
9/29-Day 2--50 minutes--investigate if its simple to use, the 2 comparing websites
10/1-Day 3--60 minutes--design ideas that i would like to use
10/2-Day 4--55 minutes--plan making this chart
10/3-Day 5--55 minutes-create make the actual product
10/4-Day 6--60 minutes--created a new one
10/5-Day 7--60 minutes--evaluate my progress

Design

According to my progress I would rate myself a 5. At the beginning my actions were lousy and my work was bad, since I did not grasp the concept of what we were assigned. I went home and reviewed my study buddy, all the websites we were assigned, and asked around. The next day I had a better, more possitive attitude towards the class assignments and I noticed that it was quit easy. I went back and redid everything, my investigation, the tables and the other things we were assigned. When I redid it the ideas kept flowing into my brain and my table paragraphs were long and good. This was because I had a good ATTITUDE IN TECHNOLOGY. Now I get what the assignment is about. I think that my project will be simple for the 6th graders and after reading it and watching it they will understand the design cycle. I believe this because the project that i decided to chose was comic book and flip book.

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.

This project will be made for the 6th graders for them to understand clearly the design cycle, in order for me to make a good presentation for them I will create a flip book and comic master.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment?

• how simple
• how much the 6th grader grasps the concept of it
• how well i compare comic master and flip book
• the details on my project.
• how well i conduct an investigation
• a design
• a plan
• how well my creation comes out
• how presentible it is
• if it makes sense
• and how creative i am

13. How will you "test" your project?
i will test my project by presenting it to three 6th graders and i will ask them questions , almost like an interview in order to see how much of my project they understood. in order to actually prove that they understood i will give them 10 questions they must get at least 8 correct in order to prove that they understood. that means the lowest they can get is an 80. though there will be extra bonus points, 2, 5 points each.

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? The limitations presented to me with this assign ment are that i may not be able to get my message through with the 6th grader if i don't make simple they well not get what i mean. 

Design

Flip book

sample 1

1.  on every page add a new letter till i have design cycle spelled out.
2. page 30-50 draw something on investigation.
3. page50-70 draw on design
4. page 70-80 draw on plan
5. page80-90 draw on create
6. page90-100 draw on evalute

sample 2

1. write design cycle from page 1-6 one whole word. 
2. write investigat 7-13 and draw a moving picture from14-30
3. write design 31-37 and then on 38-50 draw
4. write plan 51-57 and then from pages 58-70 draw
5. write evaluate 71-77 and then 78-90 draw

sample 3

1. make a list of what i will show adding a new bullet point every 5 pages
2. draw a character moving
3. make it very detailed
4. just type out whats happening and hand it out

comic master

sample one



create a disaster and then the hero comes out of no where and attacks the vilian beating him pretty bad but in a way that shows that he used the design cycle

sample two

the hero goes through the steps of the design cycle with caption bubbles

sample three

there is two super heroes fighting a vilian and they are telling each other off but actually saying the design cycle.

Investigate

 Theme is all about what the story is about. For the comic strip the whole theme of it is about super heroes and vilians. Most comic stripes are fantasy and for some reason attracts kids with super heroes and vilians. I rated it a 4 becaause it had a good theme going on. there was super heroes and vilians which have never been seen before. some of the characters are really funny looking so I know that the 6th grader that i will have to present will understand what i have to explain to them using this method. It could of had a 5 if it would of let me move the arms and legs the way that i wanted to. In the comic stip option the characters are already in there own position almost like telling their story. That is what I don't like because i want it to tell my story.

Options of the characters are semi good because I cant really have them in the possition that i want to, though the positive thing is that I have a lot of options for the characters. I rated it a 3 because i think the facial expressions and the movement of them should be easier to manipulate. Like I mentioned for theme, they say their own story which I don't want, want them to tell my story. I think I will have to analyze their postions and make a story around the characters. Instead of being the other way around. the good thing is though that I have a lot of options to make a story because I have some throughing there powers and their facial expressions some in a good mood and others in not such a good mood. I think the other thing that kills it is that if I were to want a pretty super hero I cant because like I said they are already made and I cant change them.

Simplicity is about how easy it is to use the comic strip page. This one was not that easy to to manipulate it did not have directions so I did not understand what I was suppose to do till much later. I rated it a one because because I think if its for 6th graders they might not quite get the concept of what I am trying to tell them. I think if this had exactly how to do it and examlpes of others on that same page, it would be alot better and easier. The other problem I had was that I did not know how to add text. I had to click on several places in order to get to the writing part and still then I did not get it right. if it had how to and step by step of how to do things in order it would be rated a lot better. it should also have examples of other people's so we can get ideas. 

popularity (user) is all about how many people get on and how good their product comes out. in the comic strip master it did not say how many people got on and their product. i think if other people showed there examples it would have a 4. it would have a 5 if it had examples and how many people get on. for example in facebook it tells you a round amount of how many people are on and how many people in the world have a facebook. this website should have thatso we the users can know how many others have one. this shows how popular the website really is and how good if a lot of people are on.

      

Theme of the flip book really there is none. It's just about drawing there are many color options. The whole color pallet can really catch 6th graders attention. What is really cool about it is that it really helps you create whatever you desire. I rated it a 3 because it actually had almost no them, the page did not make feel inspired to get ready to paint or do absolutely nothing. I could of given it a 4 if there was more color to it or more examples on the front page. Also I could of rated it a 5 if it had like drawings that were just black and white so that you could paint. I think this because it is hard to manipulate the mouse while trying to draw in the computer and make perfectly straight lines.

Options, I did like the color pallet as I had briefly mentioned in the other paragraph. Though I think that that could of been fixed a little. For example it could of had a color mixer so that you could have made your own rare color. What there is cool is that you get to chose your own size of brush were as to other simpler painting website, this option does not come included. The side bar also looks really plain like it could of used more vibrant colors or at least more options to use stuff. So I rated this category as a 1, it seems bad to rate it a one but considering this is a painting website it could of totally had more options. Some of the flips shown as examples are good. Though there are only a few and the once shown seem really complicated.

The simplicity- as you may notice in the other paragraphs it is not so easy. Although the examples seem really cool and funny the are not so easy as presented. I created a simple one and in order for it to look presentable I had to do like 30 drawings. The tools that I was presented with were very helpful but the brush when you went too fast it would crack up and not look so good. I think a 5  represents that its great because anyone can do it. Like I mentioned I did one it took 30 pages but I did it in 5 minutes. For simplicity the creator really out did himself with this website. There are also other methods to do a flip book, instead of drawing you can use your webcam and do it.

Popularity I scored this a 3 because I saw quit a few examples but not that many. It left me thinking if it was because not a lot of people use it or because they just don't get posted. Though I did see it said over 225,667 flip books. It at least assures me that quit a few people do use this method.Some people are very creative and seem to be joyful. This give me ideas to what I want to create for my flip book. I would of rated this website a 4 if I saw a lot more of those creative flip books. I would of rated this a 5 if I would of seen color in the once already present for flip book examples.

Investigate

Although I had chosen at first to create a video, uploading it with Animoto and masher I went back and I saw the other options that I had. I think I'm going to do a comic book instead its seems like a very good way to show 6th graders how even a super hero goes through the design cycle every time he fights crime. The application that I have been given the option to use seems very professional, accessible, and very easy to use, and manipulate the characters.  This way the 6th graders can actually see and go back to and reference every time the have trouble remembering the process.

Investigate

Animoto

            I am going to use Animoto, because it seems like I can have backgrounds to my videos. I think it looks very functional  in order to create a good informational video. The sixth graders will grasp the concept of what a Design cycle is all about and the procedures in order to create one. this websites seems like a very accessible website to get in both school and home.

Masher seems like a good proffesional program that i can use in order to mix pictures and videos. It would be fun to have a video in a way that is mixed up.This seems like a page that many have gone to for help. Also this page is very easily accessible and i can load my video and send it to the teacher without having to connect my video or anything.

Investigate

karla rodriguez 

1. What is the problem you need to solve? The problem is that we have to create a presentation for the sixth graders.
We need to explain to a sixth grader what the design cycle is about by creating a presentation.
2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? The design cycle is to know how to follow a process this applies to everything you do even the smallest things.
It’ll help us learn to solve situations where we need to make something.
3. How will this project serve my community? This project will help my community by helping little kids in following a process, in this case it’s the design cycle.
Will help the Idea Donna sixth grader learn what the design cycle is about.
4. How can my learning help my community? Since I have been doing the MYP for a long time I have the design cycle down so I can help others to explain how everything uses a design cycle.
It will help people learn about the design cycle.
5. How do we live in relation to each other? We depend on each other because every one is wise in there own ways.
We have all grades.
6. How does this help others? This helps them because the will learn to use process.
We support each other.
7. What are the requirements for this assignment? This assignment requires 4 parts.
The project has to be explanatory. It has to be able to be understood by a sixth grader.
8. What is the Design Cycle? The design cycle is all about a 4 step process in order to find something.
A process we use to solve situations where we need to create something.
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: The investigate part where you have to search for the problem being asked. Design the part in the process were you think of ideas. Plan the part in which you write what you think will be a good idea in order to solve the problem. Create make the actual product. Evaluate see that you have done everything correct, your ending result.