William IT blog

22 feb

2010-02-28T21:27:00.000-08:00

Today i have researched about screen cams and new ways of making different things, and i thought i could do that instead of starting my video because my teacher wasn't here and i need help with equipment etc. Therefore the video will be started next week, with everything up and ready to go.

Process Journal It Mr.Christodoulou

2010-02-21T21:19:00.000-08:00

Create
Monday 22nd February 2010.
We have started our create which means I will start my project soon. My project will be the trailer video including all three things. Lesson plan, Website design and of course the video itself. Since today we are writing our process journal I can't start my video today, therefore tomorrow I will have to start following the plan and it steps. For the past couple of weeks we have been working on many different MYP design cycle steps like Investigate and Plan and now we are heading for the last two, Create and Evaluate. Today I have also given my plan, which I have changed a little bit since I changed my main idea.
Here is my Plan, it is very unclear however it is part of It plan since it is only one part of the print screen.

This is the other part
This is the other part.

This is the other part.

Client meeting

2009-03-19T00:52:00.000-07:00

Here is my project.
We have finished our project quite early, however we have improved our project quite alot. It might seem like a very simple and easy thing to do. It was easy but it was very frustrating to go through the complicated steps because pages I think pages is not such a good software for making projects and I found it pretty hard because the picture would move out of its place or the text would split in have or the background picture would move, it was a mess!! However we wroked together and experimented many different things to recover. I think our project is very eyecatching and colorful and i really think it will do well. We have two posters exactly the same but one with more text. This one was more an introduction to bullying than just saying statements like we did in our second poster. Also we changed the fonts which i think we did great. Well overall i thought this was a great project and i hope you use our project.
Thank you!!!

Evaluation

2009-03-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

I have worked on a bullying poster and i think I'm finished. I think i we didn't need as much time as we needed and Pascal has helped me when i needed help. He was very useful in helping to find things and when i wanted a little rest we would swap. So thank you.

For the investigation i dont think it was to hard to find things, because we had the websites already given to us by the teacher. They came in very handy, because they had lots of information, games pictures and examples.
I don't think the design was that hard, because we made a little research on the internet on what bullying posters look like. I think we did good research, however we ended up with to much text on our original poster so we shaved some of. But still we had to much so we left that poster as bullying introduction and we made one exactly the same but with like 4 or 5 sentences. That poster was very similar to the ones we found on the internet.

-I think we worked well and fast on our poster.
-We found lots of good examples of posters to make ours good with lots of pictures.
-I think we can improve our writing, like what we have wrote on the poster.
-Next time i will get more pictures and spread them out more to make it more interesting.
- I think our plan is the same to our original poster, however we had to change all the text so overall it was exactly the same just with less text. Also that background picture was a different idea, in other words it wasn't in our plan.
-We had many difficulties on adding effects on the pictures and making them go behind the poster, that was a lot of trouble and very frustrating, but in the end i found how to put the pictures behind text by messing around with the picture. Like right clicking, inspector etc.
-I didn't get much feedback from my class because they haven't commented on my page, just like 2 comments. We tried to make a server on survey monkey, but there was no option to put a picture of our poster so people around the world could comment on it. So that let us down LOT.

It made me realize that bullying is a very important matter for kids and teenager, so now and then when i see someone bullying someone i will definately stop it. Trust me i've read to many bad things about bullying and i think other people would do this too.
I think it will help the society a lot because less kids will have less problems to deal with.

Bullying poster

2009-03-07T21:10:00.000-08:00

I have done a bullying poster with the help of Pascal. I think my poster has to much text and not enough pictures. So i made a new one similar to the first one but with less text. The reason why i put text on was because i wanted to give the person an idea about what bullying is. PLEASE comment on what poster is better.

If you have a problem reading the poster, click on the picture and it will open a new page with it in a big size.

Bullying Poster

2009-03-07T21:08:00.001-08:00

Bullying Poster

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Softwares

2009-03-01T23:09:00.000-08:00

I have made my poster with pages, Pages is a system like Microsoft word, but it is for Mac.
The system is not that easy to manage for me and has many tools such as Adding charts, changing fonts, size, etc.
I have a video to show about PAGES.

The disadvantages about this software is that if you are not used to it, it will be kind of hard to use. Because it is not exactly the same to Microsoft word.

Our poster questions

2009-02-28T20:30:00.000-08:00

Our project is about making a poster about Anti-bullying POSTER. It is an easy and straight forward job. Because all research on bullying and make it into a poster. Then all we have to dois collect pictures and put the poster together, so it looks a bit like this:

I think we did well making this poster, because ours looks a bit like that too:

I think our poster provides good information and examples, therefore it could be very useful for some people.

Bullying

2009-02-22T22:58:00.000-08:00

Bullying is a problem that is all over the world, mostly in kids life. Bullying is when a kid beats up, takes money and annoy other kids. This is tough for some kids and can cause many problems in their life, like depression. This problem is solved by counseling, which is sort of like Psychologist but in school.

These websites are very good in explaining what bullying is and they also provide some games as an example.There are lots of good information in these websites such as: What is bullying, what causes bullying and how you can solve it.

I think this website is the best, in information: http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/
I think this website is very good for kids to understand better: http://sandeelee.blogs.com/
I think this website is alright but slightly less information: http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp?area=whatbullyingis

Website 1.

Website 2.

Website 3.

Finishing my iweb

2009-02-12T00:09:00.000-08:00

I have completely finished my iweb, although i have changed some of my pages let me show you them.

They are little changes like rotating pictures, adding pictures and more words.

1.How well does your product work? Does it do everything that you said it would do and does it do it well?
Yes my project worked well and everything i said i put on. Some things were according to the plan.

2.How well did you work at each stage of the design cycle?
I don't think i worked very well on it but i respected it.

3. For the investigation it took me a while to understand how i could do my investigation. Like what do i do, do i just investigate about earthquakes or every kind of disaster.

I think design was very easy because all i had to do was sketch it and then just follow it, although i didn't really follow it that much. However i think everyone has there little changes every now and then.

Like i said the plan was just a sketch of the design of how i was going to do it and then try to follow it as much as i can.

Create was the part were i think i had to work hardest, because i had to look for lots and lots of information, which to be honest... there wasn't much.

Major assessment -client meting

2009-01-28T23:59:00.000-08:00

In class i have made a web page with i web. I have finished it and i have put six pages in it. My work was excellent to me, because it has basic information about earthquakes and how it works with pictures and videos. Obviously i could make the web much better on design, how ever I have done this myself with no help and if i had a bit of help i could of done much better. I didn't stick to my design as much as i thought i would although it is similar to it to the original one although it is basic. To make this page i think it took me about 7-8 hours of hard work! Overall i think i did incredibly well on this page.

In class i have searched for information like how earthquakes happen, facts about them, tools that are used in earthquakes, pictures, videos, other natural disasters and recent earthquakes that happen around the world. I have searched in website like google and wikipedia. They are not many website but they have lots of information in the,, plus the website that i found on google could of been 3 or 4.

I haven't used much multimedia in this project because i wanted to keep my web page simple with enough information to make it understandable. My web color is black, the multimedia i used is youtube and some pictures i found on the internet. My idea was to keep it simple.

My web page has 6 pages this includes: Homepage

How earthquakes happen

Gallery

Videos

Protection

Other natural disasters

Everything worked great with the apple systems i had no problems at all, except the links were working and right now they are not working.

I have to admit that i have no emergency plan and no references except Google and Wikipedia. This is because i lost my delicious password and when i recovered it, it turned out to be the account from last year and i dont have this years work.

Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes

I apologize some pictures are not clear, the top left one is igoogle and the top one is igoogle, the second one delicious, the third one is igoogle and then the others(black background) are i web.

Websites

2009-01-11T22:55:00.000-08:00

Website 1

ifrc.org

Good website
Not busy
Good information
Easy to understand
Well designed

Website 2

hrodc.com

Lots of information
To busy
To hard to understand what the website is about
To many links
Not good design of website (improvement)

Website 3

fast-cars-uk.com

Not busy
Not to many links therefore easy to understand
Good website design
Good information
Website includes Pictures with effects

Website 4

henkel.com

Not bad website
To many links
Kind of busy
Famous
Good products and information

Overall i think fast-cars-uk.com is the best website out of these because the website has a home page with little but good information about what it is. Also involves pictures to show yu what they do.

MYP It guided questions

2009-01-04T23:09:00.000-08:00

A. How can I make use of established and emerging WWW tools to support online publication?

b. What are the best tools to use for effective communication online?

C. How can the Internet be used to help a community prepare for and survive a disaster?

1. By using Microsoft word, Microsoft publisher etc. With this we can post online pictures messages and other information. Kind of

an online newspaper.

2. Skype, Face book, YouTube and my space. This are different ways you can communicate by the internet. You can also go on the internet with mobile phones if you need information.

3. By providing you information to prepare for the disaster. Very importantly when they estimate the disaster will come if it expected, therefore you have a everything prepared and ready for the disaster.

IT DISASTER questions

2009-01-03T20:48:00.000-08:00

Use these questions as a starting point to research:

Why is communication so important during an emergency?
What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami
What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?
What information can be created before the emergency? What information needs to be communicated during the emergency?
What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online?

1. Communication is important during an emergency, because if we communicate we share ideas, we all co-operate and work as a team.

2. The internet, and other

different ways of communicating. But focusing more on internet they used sources like e-mail, facebook , youtube and phone systems like skyp

e. Youtube just shows you videos but you can also

see videos which have surviving skills. Apart from the internet you can use a TV to watch the news, mobile phones to call poeple and walky talkies.

3. Information like where and when the the tornado, hurricane, earthquake will strike. Therefore we can all share ideas and think about were you are going to go and what to do nex

4. Before the emergency we need to get information of where and when the the disaster is going to strike. Hopefully we would all be prepeared for the disaster. For example, if you are some kind of fire fighter or life rescuing person and there was a huge wreck and you had to help people, you would tell them to stay in a specific place ,or communicate with your team and victims to find the injured people.

5. You need a software with enough hardware to go on, 21st centuary technology or late 1990s to go on the internet.

MYP design cycle

2008-11-30T22:58:00.000-08:00

The MYP design cycle is a sort of system that helps you do your work certain steps. This system is very useful easy to understand because it shows you the steps of how to do your project.

It starts of at INVESTIGATE followed by PLAN, CREAT and then EVALUATE.

Information technology

2008-11-29T21:05:00.000-08:00

Guided Question

You can communicate when there is a disaster by going on e-mail which delivers the message very fast. For example this can inform people that there is an earthquake coming and it's an emergency, therefore you can do it really fast. However you have to be hoping that they are on the computer to see your e-mail. But there is a solution to this, there are systems such as SKYPE which you can go on the computer and call every type of phone, which solves your problem. You can also use mobile phones , but maybe you don't have signal which means the phone can't call. There are many other systems like FACEBOOK , MY SPACE, FLICKR, MSN (MESSENGER) and YAHOO. These systems help you to communicate, also they are cheaper than mobile phones.

1. Communication is very important during an emergency because there is always something going to go wrong if you don't co-operate. If you communicate you can help each other and the ones around you.

2. Mostly mobile phones and police radios. These were the most used forms, maybe computers.

3. Were the disaster started like in a certain area and were the disaster is going to strike next. You could also communicate to locate were the injured people are.

4. Were the disaster will strike and were to get shelter. You could communicate with other people and tell them the plan. You could tell were the injured people are, were are the danger zones, which buildings have collapsed etc.

5. SKYPE, MSN , FACEBOOK and my space etc.

Evaluation and Reflection

2008-11-22T20:43:00.000-08:00

This term we worked on making a robot with Lego mind storms. Everything went very well, everything needed was there, the instructions were there. However there were problems, there weren't enough pieces, the programming tower didn't work sometimes and we had big problems trying to programme it. Because the programme wasn't installed for us. Therefore it made it very hard for us and we wasted to much time.
Besides that everything went well like the robot sensors, actuators, engines but the some batteries didn't work well, we had to change them many times. We can improve all this by making a lesson about checking if everything is were it all should be and if everything is fine. Like check if pieces are missing, the engines are working and most important the batteries, because if there are no batteries there is not going to be power which is very important.
In MYP terms the investigate section worked well, because i found robot rules and how they work which turned out to be very useful. We also learned about other robots like the Sony robot and Asimo and how their rules are and how they help us. The Design and Plan also worked very well, because we all had to work in a team and plan everything together. Like i said before we had trouble programming and some pieces were missing which affected our create.
Overall i think everything went ok not perfect because we had the problems which i mentioned above, but it can all improve with the things i mentioned above.

When i make a deal with Mr.Christodoulou i must keep it!!

Robotics

2008-09-22T00:41:00.001-07:00

Robotics is all about robots, investigating what they do and what we need them for.

1.SENSES 2.DECIDES 3. ACTS 4. POWER
sensors prossesor actuators power
What is a robot?
A robot is made from four simple elements. Sensors, processor, actuators and power.
A robot has to sense what he does. With the sensors below he does what he is programmed to do, following those rules it will act.
Eg. Follow the edge of a table
or stay on the table without falling.
However the robot needs power to move. Like batteries, charge or maybe a battery like a car.
He won't do anything else unless you programme to do it.
The actuators controls evrything that moves in the robot. Wheels, flaps, pullys, gears, engine and that sort of stuff.
There could be more than one sensor in a robot, there could be heat, surface, light and many more that link to that.
An interesting thing is that now they are making robots that can make there own energy by eating things and disgest it, to make energy.
Therefore they could think and live by themselves.
Also now robots can reproduce, by being programmed to make another robot. Cool right?

robot sensors: Line, color, heat, surface, laser, color, person following, light, proximetry, potentiormeter, shape, tilt, sensor and single line.
All these sensors can be used in a robot, they are very useful for a robot so it can act and think by itself. You might think that person following is not real, but it is. It can follow anything that moves or you can programme the other sensors to follow a shape. It can be a person or what ever you want. The other sensors are still very good, however line is very simple and popular.

Sensors: Sences things and sends it to the prossesor.
Prossesor: Decides on what the sensors sence.
Actuators: Acts on what the prossesor decides. E.g moves left, sences a person so follows it etc.
Power: If there is no batteries or anything to do with power the robot won't move. Therefore it needs power.

Robots are very useful to send to places were we can't go. Like mars, we don't know what haapens in Mars and what is there. So instead of sending a human they can sent a robot. Still robots can ruin peoples' life by taking their jobs, like in a car factory etc.

My summer

2008-09-01T00:54:00.000-07:00

This summer i haed a lot of fun in Argentina and France. In Argentina they made an international Go-kart track at my home town and i had my go-kart there which ment it was a motorsports holiday. I met all my friends and organized a fishing trip. We went fishing and all i got was a 10cm fish. It was a fun afternoon but sadly not much fish action. In France we went to Disney basicly it was for my little sister but i also had as much as she had. I never thought there would be rides for adults but there was which was kind of surprising.
So my next goal is to go to Argentina and at least race one race in my Go-kart which i did so well this year. I was three seconds away from proffesionals with worn tyres and a normal chasis.

Evaluation

2008-05-27T23:49:00.000-07:00

For our project we chose the E-book. We said we would investigate by researching on websites that talk about this special machine. It was pretty easy to find the information about it like the price was extremely easy to find, however there were different price ranges. Also information like it doesn't waste paper and ink which was great!
The software we used was animoto and voicethread. Both systems were great, however there were some problems. With the Animoto everything was great but the problem was choosing the right music. This is because the programme didn't have so many good tracks however we tried downloading some music but it didn't work. In the end we found the right music and the video was amazingly well made so it was thumbs up! For voicethread we had a major problem we lost all our pictures when putting them into voicethread, therefore we had to find all the pictures again which took a long time, because we didn't save them in our delicious. The other problem was that the microphone wasn't working so well and it didn't work that good so we had to do all of our speeches again. In the end i think all the videos were good specially the Animoto.
Overall i think we did really well because of our information although we could have improved our voicethread.
I think for next year this would be a great project, because you have to look for the information and its really fun doing the video.

How we did our project

2008-05-06T23:49:00.000-07:00

Our project was pretty simple. Therefore it doesn't mean it was easy. We had to make a lot of research about the E-book, like how easy it is to handle ,is it better than the other and what differences thay have. For me the most easiest was to make the Animoto because the Animoto is simple and you just have to chose the pictures and the music. The pictures were easy to find and we found more than what we needed, therefore it was achieved. However the Voicethread was pretty hard because when we tried recording our voice we either blew on the microphone or it didn't sound good so we had to experiment a little on the best sound. There was a good idea to put the Animoto into Voicethread because it makes it more exciting in the beggining. Overall i think this project was a great success and we tried our hardest.

My Voicethread and Animoto

2008-04-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

For the project we have created a presentation on both Animoto and Voicethread.
This has been a success because we could put the Animoto presentation into our Voicethread which gave it a very nice introduction.

This is our presentation

Plan

2008-03-19T00:10:00.000-07:00

First we collect pictures

Edit the pictures

Create animoto

Create lesson plan

Create voice thread with images and script

Write evaluation

This is my plan of how I am going to do my project.

Design

2008-03-11T23:53:00.000-07:00

The E-book could be used for English. I think every student should need one, because they are not very expensive and could help students with their home work and in class rather than just sharing. Sharing is okay but if the students need one for home it will be a problem, because they wont have the books. The E-book could add value to the lesson, because it's a new piece of technology and could help the environment by not killing trees.

If a school provides you the E-book and a teacher says read page ...... of the book...... it is very easy to control it and you can write notes and many things.

Can read of a machine rather than heavy books
Can download any book you want rather than going to a shop to buy a book
Can download comics and read during break time or a class(if needed)
You don't have to carry heavy books
Runs out of battery in a long time
It is not very expensive and you can bring to school

Investigate

2008-02-26T22:56:00.000-08:00

The E-Book is a special type of screen which is for reading, therefore its an electronic book made by Sony. Unlike other books the E-book can download as many books as you want and keep it in its memory. It can download books of around 500pages in seconds or minutes. This very genius machine doesn't waste any ink or paper, which is very good for our environment. This very unique machine is very good to use in class rather than wasting paper you can download every book you need rather than going to the library and searching shelves and carrying big books.
Guess what! the E-book is extremely cheap, its only worth around $100 to $400 max.
To find more information of the E-book: information E-book
To see pictures of the E-book: Pictures E-book

Go to Sony for more information: Sony E-book

To see prices of the E-book on Amazon: Amazon E-book prices

How I can use iGoogle to support my learning at Qa

2008-01-29T23:09:00.000-08:00

Studies: iGoogle helps me with my studies by searching in add stuff, and putting it in my page. Then going on it and look for the stuff i need.
Homework: It is similar like studies but I need to get more information for my subject.
Research: It helps by looking in to the link that i need and read the stuff on it.
Communication: iGoogle helps to communicate by adding comments on the link that i want to. Then the person that i send the comment to can send a reply to me.
Finding websites: If i go to add stuff i can go into a search box and find what i need or i can look in the pages that come.

Technology made my life better!!!

2008-01-08T23:26:00.000-08:00

Technology has changed my life!!! and there are many reasons why!. If there was no technology, when i'm bored i would have nothing to do apart from reading and sports, which is really good because i enjoy it a lot, but when i'm tired and i don't feel like doing them I have technology!!
These are some of the great inventions that i own

.1:psp(play station portable) play station portable

2: i have 2 ps2 (play station2) ps2

3: NOKIA 3500 express music(mobile phone) nokia

4: i-pod Nano(mp3) i-pod

A blog

2007-12-11T23:32:00.000-08:00

A blog could be used in a lot of different ways. A blog is like a website but with more information. You could put videos, images, music and comments in your blog, which makes it really interesting. You could use a blog to communicate with people and get to know more about them.

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2007-12-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

My first blog post

2007-12-04T23:17:00.001-08:00

My Grade 6 WIKI
Web 2.0 is a way to learn about wikis,blogs,podcasts and much more. Its a new way of technology to learn about those things. You can also get music, videos and pictures. I think its a new internet explorer that helps people learn more about it with really good information.