Design Criteria D

Peer Evaluation 

Description	Tick / (Y/N)	Peer Evaluation
Overall design of the blog with regard to appeal, design and titles	Y	The design could be more colorful and bright, but it’s al right. The design and titles are big, and it’s mostly dark colors, and the font is especially appealing.
Posts are easily identifiable	Y	Yes, the fonts for each subtitle for the posts are easily identifiable and easy to find.
Reflections after each criterion (not less than 200-250 words)	Y	Yes, one of her paragraphs is 350 words. I read most of her reflections and am sure they are more than 250.
Criterion A-Inquiry and Analysis Has all the inquiry questions with regard to Design situation answered	Y	She has successfully met the criteria, and has all the questions in criteria A answered with a justification and clearly explained what she had done.
Criterion B-Developing Ideas  The drawings are uploaded with reflection on the chosen design	Y	Yes, she had efficiently drawn pictures with annotations, though she could have added more details to her annotations.
Criterion C-Creating the solution on Scratch, Peer Evaluation  & reflection done	Y	No, she has not yet done the peer reflection for me.

 Checklist for Peer Evaluation Whose Blog did you evaluate? Sneha

Name of the Student who peer evaluated: Aamnah

How could your friend improve his/her blog? 

She could improve it by adding more detail for her annotations on her design and developing ideas.

What did you like most about the blog? 

I like her theme for her blog as well as her ideas, and how she created the ideas on scratch.

Date Evaluated: 12 /12/2015

Design Idea  Specification	Met/Not Met
Background	Met
Sprite used	Met
Music	Met
Speech	Met
Colour	Met
Action Taking place	Met
Sense of appeal	Met

Sense of appeal

Met

Self Evaluation 

I think that I could have done many thing to improve my blog. I didn't quite understand in the beginning what we had to do and what the assignment was about. The beginning criteria A wasn't that hard for me but the part where we had to  state the things we had to state the opportunities and weakness thing again started to get jumbled up. At first I didn't realise we had to make a starch program for our criteria C. In the examples miss gave us the person had made a blog based on the design situation so that is were I went wrong in the criteria A. I my swot analysis I had to add my scratch strengths and weaknesses. That is something I didn't do properly and had to change after quite a while.

For criteria B I wasn't able to do my design specification for quite some time as I had injured my hand and wasn't able to draw. Later on I had to settle for doing the design specification on the computer. I was able to do the drawing part but I wasn't able to annotate it properly. I think that is were I lacked the most. I could have done a lot to improve in that criteria. As for criteria C, most of it was fine but I can improve it by adding instructions. This is for the program the person who is running the program has to type if they prefer to type or talk and if they were running the program the first time they didn't quite understand what they had to do. Overall I had many ups and downs but I did lean quite a few thing about scratch and my design situation.

Design : Criteria C

Design : Criteria B

DESIGN SPECIFICATION

• Plane Background 
• Sprite Cat 
• Instrument (Imported)
• The sprite will move as the information change 

Design 1 and choice design

DESIGN SPECIFICATION

• Chalk Board 
• Standing Girl is the sprite used 
• The sprite will not move as the information change 

Design 2

Design Justification 

As my hand was injured I couldn't draw. So I used other tools and programs to create my design justification. I used photoshop and scratch program. First I used photoshop and took a picture of the sprite cat form the net and used it to create the first design idea. For the second design I couldn't find a picture of the girl sprite. So I created my design idea in scratch and then I took a screen shot. So I couldn't annotate the design. 

Scratch program

Reflection 

In this scratch project we had to make a project using three backgrounds and talk about them. My background was the cinema, the beach-malibu and a sunset. The first two were preset in the program and could directly be set.The sunset was a background I took form the net and uploaded it on scratch. The script is a simple girl standing. We added speech bubbles and thoughts so we could convey our message to the person viewing the video. I could have improved the scratch project by dictating the speech bubbles so it feels like the sprite is talking to you but couldn't do it  as I didn't have time.

Design : Criteria A

I am going take up talking vs technology. I think it is an interesting topic because most of our generation these days prefers to play on computers or is on there phones instead of actually talking to people. Social interaction has increased since we can now talk to people who are half way across the world but forget to talk to people in front of us.  

Outline the needs to solve a problem

Talking to people is one of the many things that we require in our day-to-day lives. Take applying for a job as an example, not only do we need to submit a resume but we also need to give an interview and try to convince the interviewer on how can you be helpful for the company or organisation. As teens including me prefer to text instead of talking. Talking not only helps in improving your social life, but it helps to better understand, read people and relate to them. It make us more compassionate and can sort out many things. Not being able to do this  is a big problem and can lead to many fights. If you have had a fight with someone would you rather prefer a text message 'I am sorry (˙︵˙)' or an actual apology.

Explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem for a specified client/target audience

This mostly applies to our generation sadly don't understand the importance of face-to-face conversations. We today live in era were information is available at the touch of a button and technology is used everywhere. The way the previous generation and our generation communicate with each other  has drastically changed. The so called 'millennials' which the generation between the early 1980's and early 2000's are the one exposed to technology science a very early age. The problem is most common in this generation. 

Explore identified, real-life design problems set in familiar and unfamiliar contexts 


  In offices were the younger generation need to talk to people it is hard for them such as making deals in business and sales. They prefer using emails and messages to communicate. Nothing can substitute and face-to-face talk and it helps to close a deal. It is not only in work places were there is a problem but also at home. Families don't talk to each other or even have dinner together. When they even are together they are on there gadgets and hardly talk. 

Primary Research

Analysing 

I asked 30 people of each age group. Teenagers or people between the age of 10 to 25 mostly preferred to text or message the person instead of having a face-to-face conversation with them. Were as people mostly in their late 30's onwards preferred to talk to people near them. We can see that people in the 'millennial generation' are effected by it. As we can see in the above bar graph the number of people that text 53% of them are kids under the age of 20. When we see the age group that talks the most 72% of the people above the age of 30. We can see the drastic change in the way people prefer to communicate between the two generations. People between the two age groups mostly leaned on texting (39%) although some did prefer to talk (24%) as they thought it was easier. This shows that what a problem it is. If this continues human interaction will be quite rare. Even these days we hardly meet anyone and have a conversation with anyone. Every one is busy with their life that texting has become the main form of communication. 

Strengths  I am able to perform basic function in scratch such as moving the sprite, turning it and also rotating it. I also know how to add music and add text to scratch.	Weaknesses  I am not able to perform interactive functions in scratch and the function in which we have to wait for the person running the program.
Opportunities  I am able to learn new functions and how to operate them on scratch by seeing video tutorials.	Threats  The program doesn’t work and I am not able to program the program the way I wanted it to be.

References 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/spokenlanguagestudy/socialchangetechnologyrev4.shtml

http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2007/04/11/text-chatting-versus-face-to-face-talking/

Rules for using laptops in School

Inquiring and Analyzing

We used a software called as Microsoft Power Point. It is used to make a brief presentation on any given topic.  We used it to make a presentation on the new rules for using the laptops.We had to add transitions and videos on the proper way to use the laptop in school.



PPT

Scratch Programming

Class 2

We learnt about how to add sounds to the scratch project and add motion to the sprite. We had to time the motion undergone by the sprite. 

Dance Party Project

In this project we had to give the character movement to make it look like they were dancing. We used various sprites and gave them motion for a certain amount of time with a beat or music behind.

For both the break dancers I gave them the motion of flip. The girl was a pre set sprite which had all the commands for dancing. I wasn't able to move the sprites behind each other so they are overlapping each other. 

About Me Project

This project was about my hobbies and what I like to do in my free time. This is the first project I made with scratch and it was quite interesting.

We learnt how to give the script motion. We also learnt how to change the background and time it to make sure it changes in time. We also learnt how to add a speech bubble to make the sprite talk.

We also could add music in the background but I didn't do it as I didn't have enough time to complete it. 

Scratch Programming

Reflection

Class 1

In Scratch Programming I learnt the various ways in which we can add sounds, make the objects move, change the background and make a presentation using the commands given on the side bar. In class we made a presentation about ourselves in which we were supposed to use a character and present our hobbies. It is very innovative, creative and isn't particularly difficult.

Programming

Introduction to Programming

What does 'programming' in computers mean?

A program is a set of instructions and commands that helps the computer perform in a certain way and give or provide output. The programs and the display that we interact with is all programmed by people, even the operators that we use are all codes and commands compiled together. It is done using certain languages that help us program our computer in certain way. The computer only understands low level languages which consists of 0's and 1's. We can't understand it so we use higher level languages such as C, C+ , Java, Ruby etc. The compiler converts high level language into low level language.

How has it evolved?

• Fortran (1957)
• Cobol (1959)
• C (1969)
• Pascal (1970)
• C++ (1983)
• Perl (1987)
• Ruby (1993)
• Javascript (1995)