Sunday 15 February 2009

New Unit

Good News!

We started our new unit, about bullying we are supposed to spread information on it to our school through the internet.

This is what we have to do:

Investigate

Explore 3 possible tools to use for your project. Write a blog post answering these questions:
  1. What are the features of each animation software? In other words, describe what each can do and what they can create.
  2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using each one?
  3. Add hyperlinks to your blog post to the websites where these tools are found and/or where there are tutorials showing how to use them.

Design

  1. Design your project on bullying in school!
  2. What are you going to produce?
  3. What will it look like? What will it's function be? How will it be evaluated?
  4. What will you need to create it?
  5. Write a blog post detailing all of your design ideas so that your project can be approved

Plan

Write a plan showing how you will complete your project. What will you do first? What will you need to do to complete the project?
How will the product you have created be evaluated? How do we decide if it is a good product or not?
  • Write a blog post describing your plan for completing the project
  • Write a list of criteria for the evaluation of your finished product

Create

Work on your proposed project and complete all sections. Make sure you write at least 2 blog posts while you are doing this. On your blog you can talk about how you are using the software as well as any problems or successes you are having.

Evaluate

Your final piece of work for this unit is as follows:
  1. Writing a peer review of another student's product (this will take place the week starting Date)
    • During class you are to review one other products and write a constructive review for that person. Here are the instructions for doing this:
      • Write a blog post describing (not reflecting) your final product. Include at the end of this descriptive passage 3 bullet points with specific requests to your reviewers eg. Was the level of difficulty for the game too high?, or was the script easy to understand?
      • Publish this blogpost and have your blog open on the desktop
      • Now, open you product and have it available for viewing
      • As we rotate around the class you will read the other persons blogpost and look at their product
      • Click on the 'Comments' at the end of their blogpost to post your review as a comment
      • Do not forget to add your name, eg My name is '.....' here is what I think:
      • Publish your comment
  2. Writing an evaluation of your own work on your blog. This is criterion E. For full marks (6/6) you are to:
    • discuss strengths and weaknesses of your product based on the peer review: what improvements were suggested, what did you modify and change?
    • discuss the strength and weaknesses of your performance during this unit: what did you do well in? what could you have done better?
    • discuss the impact this product may/will have on your friends and family.

Our final evaluation must be completed by Date
 (3 weeks time)

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