Design project-day 2

Tatianas Drawing: A good thing is it is very creative the butterflies as holes, bad it is harder to put the candy and to get the ball in so it would be very hard.
Nicole's Drawing: A good thing is she has an organized and a bad thing is it might get to repetitive.
My Drawing: A good thing is it is easier to create but it is very dull and boring.

The drawing with the most strengths is Nicole's because it is easy to do easy to understand and play yet not so easy it gets boring.

Details from other model we will include is paint butterflies around the circles from Tatianas idea and my idea for different circle sizes.

Something we would like to add is something to cover up the prizes and to put them in little bags. Something we would like to get out is having the same candy.

Feedback: Make the holes squares not circles so it is easier to do and play as well so there is also margin of error. They thought we constructed it very well and that the prizes where a good idea. Other feedback we received was putting points so when the candy is all won people can keep playing.

Design project-day 1

Tatiana Seinjet and Nicole Theilkul

Define Phase:
1) Who will the game be for?
Elementary girls
2) Difficulty of game?
Medium
3) What makes the game fun?
Candy prizes, different colors, different hole sizes, big and sparkly and better prices each time yo play.

Research Phase:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrT_lAnfwKI: A good thing about this game is that it is fun, you can use different birds and you can control where it goes. A bad thing is that when you throw all the peices then you have to put them back up again which can make it kind of boring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14uE5jdJZYg: A good thing about this game is everybody knows how to use it and it is very colorfull and interactive which makes it fun. A bad thing is it is kind of hard to do and you can cheat on this game very easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGKDoPWc9U: A good thing about this video is it is really fun and it is not so hard to construct. A bad thing is that you may cheat on this game very easily like just take the prizes, you could also make it harder because it is too easy to play.

Ideation Phase:

Brainstorm: A claw game in which you match the animal with its baby, a game in which you you push 2 things out of different covered toilet paper rolls and if they match you get to get the prices, we had an idea to throw a ball and different sized cones and if they got in you could take the prize that was inside.

The idea we chose was the last one. This game would be fun because it would be very collorfull and you will have different prizes to win, it is also fun because you would have different levels of difficulty it would be easy yet a little bit challenging.

Some things that could go wring with the game is people just grabbing the prizes, some of the circles being to easy and the prizes to run out on that one, people getting to close so it would be too easy, some levels being to hard. To avoid those we could make the prizes go out of like a slide so people cant take them, also give extra prizes for the teacher in case the candy runs out.

Homework:

Idea Picture:

Virtual Fieldtrip

Villa de Leyva
Find 10 photos of thing people should see or visit in that place.
For each photo write a 3-4 sentence description.
This photos with description need to be on a web 2.0 tool.
The link for this tool goes on the blog and is emailed to Ms.Shawn at sallen@cng.edu

Here is my Prezi

FINAL PRESENTATION

http://prezi.com/rdzr6tzbe6_j/photoshop/
http://prezi.com/rdzr6tzbe6_j/photoshop/

Tech Tool Evaluation

Stixy:

This is the first website

Three things I like about this Site:

• I like how you can share all your work with other people and they can collaborate.
• I like how you can customize almost everything in this website such as themes and colors.
• I like how you can just drag the note, document or image into the screen and you click on it and its ready to go.

Three Things that Could be Improved:

• I think stixy should have the stixy page that says everything about how to use it as the homescreen so you become more interested and informed.
• I think the first page you see should be a litte bit more organized and asthetcally pleasing.
• Organization in general is lacking so thats one thing they can improve.

Two Ways to Use This:

• Organize my schedule
• Do a project that involves someone else.

Mentimeter:

This is the second website

Three things I like about this Site:

• I like how it replaces the papers on a hat to vote. It looks more professional.
• I like how the ideas is so original and I never thought an app like this existed.
• I like how you can use your own mobile phone to vote and it is easy to do.

Three things that Could be Improved:

• There should be more themes and more colors.
• I think there should also be an app for this not only the website.
• Also I think the title of the tool is not so great I would think it was a centimeter converter or something like that.

Two Ways to Use This:

• By asking people in an audience to use this instead of raising hands.
• To choose the name of your new pet.

College Exploration on Naviance

School	Standford	Tufts	Princeton	Babson
Price	41,564	42,962	37,865	40,400
Public or Private	Private	Private	Private	Private
School Type	Traditional	Traditional	Traditional	Traditional
Acceptance	7%	24%	8%	34%
Job Placement Services	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
GPA	3.72	3.64	3.84	3.33
Graduation Rate	95%	91%	96%	91%

My GPA the first Quarter was:3.475 I have a chance to go to Babson and maybe Tufts if I improve my grade a little bit.

What I learned from this is I really need to improve my grade if I want to go into a good college and specially if it is an Ivy League, I need to raise my math and sociales grade and then I can go to a good college. I also learned most schools have a very selective way to choose their students and I need to imporve every grade I have to go into this colleges.

Google Day #3

3 Goals for the Day:

• Learn how to change the background of a picture
• Learn how to make the background and object different instead of realistic.
• Try different opacity levels.

Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8M1GbXABE  This link was useful because it helped me change the background of an image. It showed me how the image I choose can be of any color I want contrary to what I had seen in another video that didn't look like it was very good. That video also thought be different ways to delete the other background, some faster than others but I had options.

Other:

One thing I want to learn for my next Google Day is  how to change skin color.