Grant Chart!

10/6/11- I will dedicate my time on planning my project.

10/7/11-10/8/11- I will spend two days creating my project. One day will be dedicated to creating the whole product, and the second day will be to make sure that everything is right.

10/10/11- I will be planning and creating the test for the students.

10/11/11- On this day I will be reviewing my oral presentation and how I will be presenting to the students.

10/13/11- It is the day were ill be presenting and giving out the tests.

Reflection

As the weeks gone by we have done our project step by step. We have guided ourselves trough the use of the design cycle. We are now currently on the design/plan step of the cycle. I think I deserve about a 4 or a 5 because  I have been following the agenda and the rubric. Also I am always on top of my blogs and try to advance it and always take and put time into it. For this project I will be using the movie maker to teach the 6th graders about the MYP design cycle. It is a very important project because they are going to be following those steps for 5 years before they enter the IB program.

Design

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. 
For this project I will be doing an animated video using this website http://goanimate.com/text2video/everydaylife. Where I am going to be able to 

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? 

Investigation!

FLIP BOOK:

Topic	Score(1-5)
simplicity	5
Theme Choices	4
Character Choices	4
Font Choices	3
Music Choices	0
TOTAL SCORE	16

VS.

COMIC MASTER:



Topic	Score(1-5)
Simplicity	3
Theme choices	2
Character choices	3
Font choices	0
Music choices	5
TOTAL SCORE	15

COMIC MASTER INVESTIGATION-

Simplicity: comic master is my chosen project, because I think it is a fun way where a six grade student will learn about the MYP Cycle in a very fun way. Also because it is somewhat easy for me to do with my busy schedchule of homework.

This website is easy once you get use to it. Just like any other website there is, although it is tricky to use it. You need to push and move a lot of stuff, and there is so much you can edit that you wouldnt know where to start. I think in order for it to be easier for me I need to plan what and how I will do it, and what i would want.

Theme:

The themes that GoAnimate has are a lot. Although the catch is that I think you either have to pay or earn points in order to get diffrent settings,character,music etc. I am still trying to get the hang of this website by messing with videos and such.

The website format is diffrent from the one I first saw at school. I dont know what it might be, but you have to log in in order to see you video, but once you sgin up they change all the characters and stuff. Alhtough, you get to have more setting wich is quite awsome.

Characters:

When you do a video without signing up it only has three choices of character and settings,but if you sign up you will get a variety of characters etc. Since it has multiple of themes, it has a lot o characters. But each has a option of choosing one of three characters etc. if you are in it for free.

That is why my score for characters is quite low, because you cant quite edit it and have a lot of options as i would like to.I had a good plan to do my video,but I dont have that many options. Meaning i will have to work with what i have.

Font:

For this website fonts is not a big thing.Since we are making a video and the characters are talking we dont need writting, therefor we dont need diffrent fonts.

That is why I gave it a zero on my rubric, because we dont need it.

Music:

The music in the video is really important. The music and the setting is what first appears in it, also the music will be playing throughout the video as background music.

I think the mucis is very important in this case because it will grab the students attention. Especially if it is a song that they know.

FLIP BOOK INVESTIGATION-
Simplicity: This site is very fun and entretaining to work with, although it might take a long time to do. This website is not only about drawing but is very simple and down to the point as well.
I know this is easier than the video, but since I am not the artistic type I think it would be harder for me to iterpert a story so they couls understand it.
Theme: The themes for this website varies. It all depends ont he creator and on wha they would want to do.
The website consits of a blank page where you coudl design and do whatever you want so you get to choose your own setting wich is very cool
Character: This goes also to the characters. The flipbook page is a website where you choose what you want to do including characters. There is no option fro that, the only option there is is the size of the pencil line, colors and if you would like to erase a mistake. 
That is why I for characters I put a four,because you are free to choose what ever character you would want.
Font:  this also goes for font. You really dont have that much options for font. It inly allows you to change the size of the brush and ethe colors as well.
Music: Since this is a flipbook music dosent go very well with the idea of it, since a flipbook is more of a art thing telling a moving story.
That is why for music I gave it a score of a zero because it dosent have any options for it nor does it need any.

Design Cycle questions

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?  The design cycle applies in the real world in some many way it could be as little as making a sandwich or as big as planning a big project for a big company.

3. How will this project serve my community? it will help the student to know the MYP design cycle and it will help him use it for his everyday life.

4. How can my learning help my community? my learning does help my community by applying it on my everyday skills.

5. How do we live in relation to each other? we all have knowledge and it my help us work us together succesfully

6. How does this help others? I can make somebodies life better

7. What are the requirements for this assignment? To use the MYP design cycle.

8. What is the Design Cycle? Steps that will help you go trhouh a project in a ordierly manner

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)