Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Vocabulary

ETIQUETTE- Eugene had horrible etiquette because he always posted pictures of cats dancing and that didn't relate to our topic at all.


FLAME- Jenkins had the entire message board into 2 sides once he started to flame about some users believing in big foot.


TROLL- I dont go on that message board anymore because it is full of trolls .


ANONYMOUS- I like to remain anonymous on the internet so people won't know who I am.


EMOTICON- The users would always post a smiley face when emoticon when they got other users angry.


ETHICAL- Jericho liked being ethical on our message board, but every other board he would troll tremendously on.


CONDUCT- Juan knew a lot of internet conduct when talking to old people on the internet.


COURTESY- The guy who just left the message board discussion had a lot of courtesy on the internet when we asked him to post a collaborative picture.


OBVIOUS- It was really obvious that the Bill Cosby impersonator was just trolling on the message board.


TONE- Just by the way the user was typing in all caps, I knew what tone he was talking in.


SMS- Using SMS, I can now play video games with my friends on the computer.


UNETHICAL- The way that troller attacked the admin of the message board was highly unethical and unnecessary.


LEGAL- The user told the troller that the swastikas he was posting were not legal.


BOOLEAN SEARCH- Using the boolean search on Google, I found out where the local Walmart is.


URL- The URL for the website is "www.thisismywebsite.com".









Sunday, October 23, 2011

CREATE- Reflecting on my creation

19.  Did I follow my Plan ?
20.  How could I have improved on my creation?
21.  What will I do next time that I did not do this time?

19. I followed my plan down to the last minute, it guided me on what to do on that day. It is just that I couldn't write down my reflections for every single day working on my create section of the MYP Design Cycle Project. So I did follow the plan section of the design cycle thoroughly and efficiently.
20. I could of improved my creation by focusing and overall spending more time on my original plan. My original plan was a lot more advanced (a rap-techno song teaching kids the design cycle) but I stopped my efforts on that once I realized it would take a lot more time than time left to complete the create part of the design cycle deadline.
21. The next time I will complete an MYP project will be that I will make better use of my time in the very beginning of developing the project. I would always get sidetracked and spend a lot more time on one post than the other posts making final important posts deprived of a lot of time and effort. 

Reflection:Evaluation

I believe I correctly explained the evaluation part of the design cycle correctly. Today I modified the questions a little more to be a lot more relevant to the structure of the design cycle and for the 6th graders to have a better overall memorization and understanding of of the MYP Design Cycle concept in total. The evaluation process that I performed for the design cycle was given a lot of information on how it related to serving and making my community better. I also evaluated my project also on how I could of made it better and why if going to do future projects. In all I would give myself a 5-6 (90-100) on the design cycle rubric of my evaluation part of the Design Cycle.

Investigation Reflection

The investigation part of my design cycle project was done correctly and efficiently. I rate myself a 5-6 on the design cycle rubric. The problem is explained thoroughly and descriptively. I investigated the problem and see how the problem could be resolved in anyway possible. I also evaluated the problem and saw how and why it graded because it was. I wrote a lot of information about how the investigation concurred with the design cycle in its entirety I described and acknowledged the sources that I used and how they related to the investigation overall.

6th Graders Evaluation

Today I tested my project on my 7th grade brother and his 6th grade friends. I first tested them giving them the site to the game without knowing what it was all about, making them unaware of the MYP Design Cycle. Then I gave them each 3 tries to pass the game. They all were attached to the game deeply but still were being taught the steps in the Design Cycle by memorizing them. Then once each were done with their 3 tries I then asked them the questions from the game to see if they really remembered and learned the Design Cycle. Kid 1# got 4 of the 5 questions right. Kid 2# got 2 out of 5 questions right. Kid 3# got 5 out of the 5 questions right. Overall they did get taught the Design  Cycle so my project is conclusive to teaching about each step of the MYP Design Cycle.

Evaluation Questions


1. How can my learning serve my community?
2. How can your future projects become better?
3. What have you learned about yourself and what you will continue to do or not do and why?
4. How do you feel about your final product? What would you rate yourself on the Rubric scale of 1-6 for each part of the Assessment Criterion?
5. What would you do differently in regards to your planning and execution of your plan?

My learning can serve the community by teaching people in my community learn and use the MYP Design Cycle. My future projects could be better by putting a lot more effort and Attitudes in Technology into my projects. I learned that it takes me a while to get something done in class and so I got to stop doing that. I feel really good about my final project though, I would rate myself a 4 to a 6 on each part of the Assessment Criterion. Next time I would immediately 
complete something given to me and that would execute my plan.