SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR:

Design Brief:

Problem:

What is the general problem your group is trying to solve? or

What is the design problem you are trying to solve?

Concept: (What do you want the user to think about?

What message do you want the user to get?)

Sources: cited

Identify and analyze appropriate source of information you will need to solve your problem.

Any Research?

Actors?

Materials / Props?

Sound / Music?

Software?-

Specifications:

Format: (web video (320 x 240) or PAL D1/DV widescreen

Pixel Format: Square pixels or DV Footage

Tools: (Photoshop, illustrator, iMovie, Premier, Final Cut Pro, After Effects)

Length: (15 – 60 seconds)

1. What issue/ topic did you choose? Cyber bullying 

2. Why is this important? Because it can take the lives of other people.

3. Who do you want to reach? (target audience) The Highschoolers

4. What is the behavior your looking to change? Bullying 

5. Why doesn’t the audience already engage in this behavior? Because they tend to think theyr boring or it just doesnt catch their eye.

6. What emotional appeal can you make?(whhaaa,.?)

7. Belonging; Power/Control; Fun: Safety;

8. Put your audience in a situation/scenario where the issue would come up in their lives.

9. Where are they? (setting) Behind my house.

10. Who is there? (characters) Samo,Nicole,Leo M., lilly m., Jeniffer, Sabrina, Michel, (probabbly more)

11. What’s’ going on around them?  ( ambient sound) [undicided]

12. What are they saying? (dialogue) [undicided]

13. Who is message brought to you by? ( Station; organization)

Thesis

 Slums are,....

•  a very unhealthy way of living.
• where many poor people live because they don't have enough money to pay for rent in an original apartment. 
• Also slums can be a very dangerous place to live.

Outline

I. Introductory Paragraph
   A.Slums are a very unhealthy way of living. Slums are where many poor people live because they don't have enough money to pay for rent in an original apartment. Also slums can be a very dangerous place to live.
   B. Create a strong transition
II. First Supporting Paragraphing
   A. Slums are a very unhealthy way of living, because of all the chemicals that might floating around. Most slums are either flooded or are buried in trash.
   "There are public toilets and water taps, but sanitation is poor with open sewers along the alleyways." Pg7 For example The slums have very narrow alley ways so its extremely narrow.
   B. Transition
   III. Second Supporting Paragraph
   A. Slums are where many poor people live because they don't have enough money to pay for rent in an original apartment. They have no other place to live besides the slum. "We have lots of problems because it's is not a place where you can admire to stay, my dear. You can see your self." pg.3 they have no other choice but to live in a filthy place like a slum.
   B.Transition:
   IV. Third supporting paragraph
   A.Slums can also be a very dangerous place to live because of all the chemicals that have awful odors and The people who live there don't even realize if it is dangerous or not because of they are so used to it smelling like that.

Introduction Paragraph

   Slums are a very unhealthy way of living. Slums are where many poor people live because they don't have enough money to pay there rent in an original apartment. Also Slums can be very a dangerous place to live in because of the condition they're in.
   Slums are a very unhealthy way of living because of all the chemicals that might be floating around most slums are flooded or nearly buried in trash. "There are public toilets and water taps, but sanitation is poor with open sewers along the alleyways." pg7 The slums are very narrow alley ways which are created by houses less than two feet apart.

Vocab.

Etiquette: The behavior you use on the internet or the comunication you use to talk to people on the computer.
Conduct: The way you act on the internet.

Courtesy: How respectfull you are.
Flame: Afects your computer in a very bad way.
Troll:kind of like a virus. That messes up your computer.

Anonymous: Some one that doesnt have identification.

Emoticon: They way your messages will be read (the tone)

Obvious: The most easily proven,. Ex: my mom said it was supper obvious that i was lying to her.

Tone: The way you type Ex: I HATE YOU! you would think that person is mad.
SMS: Is a tool from Microsoft that helps in the PC's network.
Ethical: The way you would behave online,.?

Unethical: The things you should be doing on the computer like illegal things.
Legal: Based on the laws.

Boolean Search: A type of search allowing users to combine keywords with operators such as AND, NOT and OR to further produce more relevant results. For example, a Boolean search could be "hotel" AND "New York". This would limit the search results to only those documents containing the two keywords.


URL: Abbreviation of uniform Resources Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the web.

Assessment Criterion

1. Did they include a reflection in each posting?

2. Did they explain in detail what was happening each day they worked on the project?

3. What can they improve on ?

4. What do you think they did well on?

5. What would you rate them on our scale of 1-6 of our Assessment Criterion

•   Investigate?

•   Design?

•   Plan-?

•   Create?

•   Evaluate?

Attitudes in Technology-?

EVALUATE

EVALUATE:

20. How could you improve your presentation?

21. Does your presentation meet all of the requirements?

22. Share your presentation with at least 2-8^th, 3-9^th, 4-10^th+ friends. What did he/she like about your presentation?

23. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve?

24. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer?

25. How can my learning help my community?

26. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6)

EVALUATE

CREATE

CREATE

PLAN

ATTITUDE:

27. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard". Explain your answer:

28. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6)

PLAN

PLAN:

14. Brainstorm ideas. Use the chart below

IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf found in schoology under “materials”& then files

15. What idea did you choose to demonstrate the design cycle and why did you choose it?

16. Does your idea meet all of the requirements?

17. Use the story board paper below to plan your presentation.  Include how many levels you will have, what will be on each level, how will you include teaching skills to young students, and what will your questions be about.

story board.pdf found in schoology under “materials” & then files.

18. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days:

REFLECT on your learning

My Project

MY PROJECT

 Due Dates: Design product due, 10/4
                     create 3 design

DESIGN BRIEF

10.Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom your going to make it,. I am going to make a video on the design cycle.  I am going to make it easier for a sixth grader so they can better understand how the design cycle works,.
11.What are the requirements for this asigment? It must be simple and longer than 2 minutes to present,.
12.What are the limitations you have with this asigment?  The limitations will be that I might not know whats going on the whole time in the design cycle.
13.How will you “test” your project? I will make sure my project is showing the correct data before I present it and make sure that the 6th graders understand it,.

HOW DO I MAKE SOUND CHOICES? HOW CAN MY LEARNING HELP MY COMMUNITY?

Area of Interaction: Community and Service , Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Significant Concept: Design Cycle can be used to solve problems

Unit Question: How can my learning help my community? How do I make Sound Choices?

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) Identify the Problem

1. What is the problem you need to solve? Explain to a 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. (3d, PPT, movie, game, Poster)

2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? It shows how the differ from each other as to hen its done professionally and to when its done non professionally,.

3. How will this project serve my community? It will show how they can improve there skills in life,.

4. How can my learning help my community? It would help the community because it would help me learn different ways on how to help the community.

5. How do we live in relation to each other? we live in relation to each other by having something in common is by having tech. to communicate.  

6. How does this help others? It helps others by teaching them how to 

7. What are the requirements for this assignment? The requierments are to make everythign sound easier for the 6th graders to understand.

8. What is the Design Cycle? The Design cycle is  Investigate,Evaluate,Create,and Plan.

REFLECT on your learning.

Day 2

9. Spend one day experimenting with DESIGN CYCLE your presentation. List five things you learned about the Design Cycle:  I learned that i have chose what website i will set up a video for the children to understand what a design cycle is.

Day 3

Design Brief

10. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it. I am going to make a video for the kids to understand what a design cycle is.

Formulate a Design Specification

11. What are the requirements for this assignment? The requirements for this assignment is to make it easy and understanding 

12. What are the limitations you have with this assignment?

13. How will you "test" your presentation?

REFLECT ON YOUR LEARNING