YEAR 8/9 - DIVYA BENNY

YEAR 8 FIRST BLOG FOR DIGITAL DESIGN
My name is Divya Benny. I am a student of Grade 8 in EISM. This blog will be my process journal to record all the tasks that will be completed during this year

The MYP Design Cycle consists of 4 stages:

Criteria A - Inquiry and Analysing

Criteria B - Developing Ideas

Criteria C - Creating the Solution

Criteria D - Evaluating the Solution

MYP is middle years programme. It is what we learn until some year. MYP is challenging and it helps children develop a connection between studies and real life. Criteria A is inquirying and analyzing. For that criteria you will have to inquire and analyze things. For criteria B it is to develop ideas and for that you have to think a lot and form ideas. Criteria C is creating solutions. So when have a crisis you will have to create a solution. Criteria D  is evaluating the solution. So if you have a solution you have to evaluate to make sure that it can be helpful.

BOTH ASSESSMENT SHEETS ARE ON MANAGEBAC DROPBOX ALSO. 

My tinkercad product is a toothpaste squeezer.

TERM 2: TECHFAIR

TASK ONE:

For this years techfair project, my partner and I are deciding to do an app where you don't have to carry any of your books around in your bags or in your hands. Just have to carry a device which has the app downloaded to it. This will help students grow taller as carrying a heavy bag can result to having a bad back. This can be useful for anyone, primary school, middle school, high school, college, or even work.  Its an app with your school books downloaded to it and a place where teachers can update the parents about how their child is doing in school. This app is paper free, in schools children use too many papers. One paper equals to twelve trees. You won't be able to loose any papers as it will be saved on the app.

TASK TWO:

Kindle, Kobo, google play books, i books, Scanner Pro, ihw are all apps which are a bit close to our apps they are not similar as we have different agendas.

TASK  THREE: 

For my SWOT analysis i am doing ibooks. ibooks is a good app for using to read books if you downloaded them as PDF. Their weakness is that people have to buy the book online or they have to get the PDF to read it from ibooks. Other than that they can't read the book. They have many opportunities to improve. Some people email apple to tell them what can be done better. So when they have to update a new IOS they can change ibooks a bit. Their threat is that there are many companies copying them or having ideas similar to them. ibooks is not an original app.

TASK FOUR:

I will design and make Virtual Bags for everyone, students, parents, workers, and teachers to help with backaches and extra things to carry around. This can also save paper and store important documents safely.

I will make a product with x-code, an app which helps to create other apps.

CRITERIA C:

In this picture Fayha is working
on the first step of our app.

In this picture I am working
on the second step of the app.

(Criteria D uploaded on Managebac.)


YEAR 9: TERM ONE:

Scratch programming links:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247151694/ 

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/247151185/ 

CRITERIA C:

Criterion C – Creating the solution

Strand 1 - Create a step-by-step plan (production plan)

Start by creating a step-by-step plan including details of the required resources, materials and time to complete. This plan should also take into account quality assurance and control. Think about the due date for your Criterion C (21^th November).

Use the table below to write your production plan:

DATE	TASKS TO BE COMPLETED	TIME TAKEN TO COMPLETE TASKS	MATERIALS
November 5th	Create sprite	5 minutes	My scratch account and my designs
November 7	Make background	5 minutes	My scratch account and my designs
November 10	Create dialogue and script	10 minutes	My scratch account and my designs
November 14	Create voice over	5 minutes	My scratch account and my designs

Resources

Resources can be classified as tools or materials.

Tools

Tools can include both digital design tools (hardware and software – input, processing or output devices) and product design tools (hand tools, machinery, CAD software and CAM hardware).

Materials

Materials can be tangible (such as hardwood, nylon or cornstarch), or digital (such as text, fonts, images, audio, videos, animations, sprites, icons).

Example of production plan:

DATE	TASKS TO BE COMPLETED	TIME TAKEN TO COMPLETE TASKS	MATERIALS
6th November	I need to conduct all the backgrounds that I can include in my animation, and finalize my decision and use them to insert them in animation.	1 hour and a half	I need my scratch account and my designs.
9th November	I need to use all of the math questions that I researched and pick the best ones out of all and then insert them in animation.	1 hour	I need my math questions plan and my scratch account.

Strand 2 - Create a Gantt chart

Gantt or Slippage Charts

A Gantt or a Slippage chart is a graphical display of the timeline of your project’s tasks. To create your Gantt chart you can use Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.

Examples of Gantt Chart

Strand 3 Demonstrate your technical skills and follow the plan to create your product – write a process journal

Start creating your product and write a process journal. Take screenshots as you create your product and explain what you have done.

First I visualized what I had to do. I made some sketches from which I decided which one was the best.

Then I started my work. First I uploaded the background onto my scratch program. Then I decided on what sprites I would use. I decided to use the letters as well so I made scripts for them.

Then I went back and forth to edit it and make my program better (this is one screen that I have made). Then I added voice overs so the audience would find it easier to learn.

Examples:

The following code was written for the parts of the flower. I have used the forever loop so that I am able to move the sprite along with the mouse. This is done so that when the program has started it will sense the mouse and the sprite moves along with it.

Strand 4 -  Justify changes made to the design and the plan

Look back on your designs, the plan and your process journal. What changes did you make to your design and your plan? Why did you make them? Justify why you made these changes.

At first I thought I would make these music notes that you have to press, and then it would play the sounds of how to read the alphabet, then I decided not to. I just made the letters as sprites and made them some dialogues and a voice over on how to pronounce the word. I did this because it would be easier to understand.

Another change I made: I thought of making this another language or the program having choices of the other languages because it was teaching English and there was no point of teaching someone English in English because they would not understand, but because it is not yet to be published it, it was made in English so other people on scratch could understand.

I did not make all the screens that I had drawn; I just made one of the screens.

Strand 4 - 1 - Present the solution as a whole

Present your final work by showing a few screenshots. Don’t forget to embed your animation on blog. 

SCRATCH PROGRAM LINK: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/266310881/