Investigation- Anti Bullying Campaign

The first website is aimed at children. It has a lot of pictures, graphics and games. Everything is colorful and seems fun. The second website is aimed at a slightly older audience. It has far more information than the other website, and not as many graphics. Both of them talk about bullying, but the second website has much more information. The first website, despite the fact that it is for a young audience, it is actually pretty crowded. The second website was well layed out, it had a lot of information in a easy to read layout and the navigation pane was very convenient.

Evaluation for Product

Our project is not really that complete. We made a keynote on anti bullying. We have a lot of animation and videos and we have all the information. Our project as a whole is pretty good, we have information, videos to explain and a song from garage band. We used our time wisely and had a well thought out working method. What we would do is that we would divide our group into two, one would work on the keynote, one would work on something else like the song or videos or blogs. So we were all contributing to the project in some way. We all also had a well thought out method for the blog. I would do one thing, Harris would do one thing and Ali would do one thing. We got every thing done much faster. We finished everything on time and correctly (hopefully). We worked very well on the project except for one part, because of the absence of two people in our group, we couldn't do the last final video. We worked very well on the videos. We got everything done very quickly and we didn't have to do any editing. We also completed the keynote really quickly after the accident that occured. I think we could have improved by not fooling around with garageband. I think we spent too much time making the song. I think we wouldnt make the garageband song and we might have saved a lot of time. We sould have finished one lesson before today but because we fooled around and two of our members are absent, we cant do it. We had one huge difficulty, the keynote crashed and we had to remake it. We madeit again and realy focused to make it really got in a short amount of time. People liked the song and because they havent seen keynote, the animation were very cool to them. It doesnt really impact us but to the others it was a huge impact because they hadn't seen keynote before, plus garageband.

Client Meeting

Client meeting

Here is my project and this is what it includes:

A Powerpoint about bullieng

A song from garage band

A video that shows bullieng

My blog to show all the work we did!

I hope you Liked all the work we did and please read my blog.

Design

We are going to have two groups. One will work on the keynote and simultaneously, another will work on garage band and the blogs. The keynote we hope, will give the information needed. We are hoping to put the videos into the keynote. And then we might put the song we make in garage band into the keynote. Basically the keynote will be the main product. We are going to put a song into it, and videos to support our information. We are going to use keynote for the presentation, imovie to capture and edit the videos and garage band to make the song.

Screenshots

We have almost finished the keynote but we have to make the final video and two of our group members arent here. Here are some screenshots :

Process Jourals

I have started the keynote again and im gonna make it much better. Just hope that the accident wont occur again ...

Process Journals

today something really bad happened. the keynote crashed and we had to start all over again. But i think we have a new strategy, three people work on the keynote (me isaac and rami) and harris and ali work on things like the song. Hopefully this time this keynote wont crash!

Process Journals

I think we are progressing satisfactorily.... we have almost finished with the keynote, we've made the music but one thing we're lacking is the acting/filming, both for the keynote and the video. I think we should just finish the keynote and just move on to the filming.

Planing for videos and keynote

We are going to make two things, a video and a keynote.

For the video we are deciding to do some bullying scenes where Rami and Harris are the victims, Isaac and Ali are the Bullies and I'm the Teacher. We basically hope to teach people a lesson that bullying can be very dangerous and that people should stop now or someone could get seriously injured.

Anti- bullying Campaign Investigation

We will be starting our new unit, and it's the anti bullying campaign; we will be creating a powerpoint displaying our video on demonstrations and examples of bullying. 

Our actors are:

Harris Nazri: Victim of isaac

Isaac Fermawi: Bully

Ali Abssy: The bully rami

Rami Farhat: Bullied from Ali.

Powerpoint designer:

Hamdan Javeed :::::::::::::::::::]

The video is compulsory and is required thoroughout the presentation, and must be needed to go with the  powerpoint along with the descriptions on notifying people the informations about bullying.

Bullying has occured many times throughtout schools, an act of coolness, show off's and many other to impress the pople in their surroundings, and now this is why we are assigned on researching about this significant mater, to inform other people about the threat of bullying in school, and what you should do when your being involved in some situations as similar as this. 

For now we will be researching a little bit about this topic on the internet, and post some pictures, our power point producer, Hamdan Javeed will be responsible for the pictures and videos being put into the powerpoint and the design when it comes to the presentation. While the remaining four including myself, would be cresting a few videos until it can be out onto the powerpoint. Possible at the same time, we'll be creating some music togo with out power point to attract other people's attention!!

We will  be following the steps of the design cycle and hopefully be succesfull: our plan

Investigate: researching about bullying and take few pictures and observe video samples to immatate it. 

Plan: we asked few teachers we know around the school to do the video and get some more information abosut bullying if they've witnessed it to put more information on the powerpoint and for our acting in the video.

Create: We will then be doing the whole, entire, overall work as planned, and then do some more modifications as we improve our progess in the process of finishing the entire project.

And the very last one:

We evaluate on our overall work and project, and our experiences while we were doing this, and other things that will be relating to to our work on evaluation.

Examples of Sites being given by the Teacher

Above are the pages of the websites showing the examples that has been given by the teachers

Evaluation

As my overall work on the blogger, iweb and others, it has been succesfull; comparing my work to the others, mine seems over average, and better. I provided various explanations and for each questions and units. I devised a plan to include videos, and more pictures. I too have put in my delicious page on all my favorite sites I have bookmarked. I included too explanations, diagrams, and pictures for software and hardware, the design cycle that I followed to be successfull and accurately complete my obectives in many areas (that can be explained in the post), and the client meeting. Furthermore, I utilize my previous skills I learn from classes before, like animoto videos, voice thread from last year and so much more to mak it be apart of my bloger, I will also try to book mark on my delicious account more websites provided for the examples the teacher has given, and try to observe other people's blogger to see what they I have that I dont and was supposed to.

DESIGN CYCLE

ABOVE: IMAGES OF THE DESIGN CYCLE ( USEFUL STEPS TO FOLLOW, RECOMMENDED IN CERTAIN SITUATION).


What is it?

The design cycle is very helpful in terms of following steps, by step process, in like finishing a project before you make any mistakes along the process in finishing your final COPY of the project. Above, you can see all the step process, directions you can follow, or if compulsory according to whatever task is assign to you.

How is it use?

The design cycle is very easy to follow, there are arrows pin pointing which way and how you should actually accurately follow the instruction, it tells you. For ex; from investigating your topic, getting to know a little bit of it. You then are going to plan your work, create it, and finally evaluate on your overall work.

By following this, you can benefit your work. It shows your organize and choosing a reliable way in perfectly creating an excellent job.

WEEK 1-3 INVESTIGATE QUESTIONS AND TASK

Software and Hardware













Guided Questions: How can we use the Internet to communicate when disaster strikes a community?

Unit: Disaster!

This unit follows the IBO MYP Technology curriculum guide
Area of Interaction: Community and Service
Guiding Questions: How can I make use of established and emerging WWW tools to support online publication? What are the best tools to use for effective communication online? How can the Internet be used to help a community prepare for and survive a disaster?
Learning Objectives:
To foster essential research skills and use social bookmarking
To analyse and compare different methods of online communication (static, dynamic, interactive modes including multimedia and Web 2.0)
To create and maintain a personal blog (required for process journal material)
To become aware of good web page design and user interface on the WWW
To develop basic web page authoring skills including HTML essentials and generic software familiarisation (Dreamweaver)
To work through and understand the design cycle

Why is communication is so important during an emergency?

Communication is imperative in terms of emergency like natural disasters taking place. In this type of situation, communication comes in handy by warning others of the incoming threat to the community. Reffering to the same situation, communication is also useful in communicating with other people that actually trying to prevent, avoid as many casualties as possible, ,that is responsible and in charge of this threat. For example, the local government, that's about to be hit by a huge hurricane or tsunami or other natural disasters called for evacuation protocol and the military to assist the people in evacuating the region before the threat is getting closer, or getting worse, and communication is the one that can help them, contact emergency agencies, like FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD, DEA, and others, given orders for example to where this threat is going to hit next.

What forms of communication have been employed during recent disasters? eg. Hurricane Katrina, The Tsunami

Recently comunications that was employed for natural disaster through telephone, cell phones, and other radio equipments mainly. Others are through computer websites, like E mail, or face-book, and other sites that links to this kind of situation. another typed of communication is a siren, that rings anywhere in public as a sign of communication, that the government (for example) has called for everyone to evacuate as danger is heading straight for them. This doesn't involves any talking but only a sign. Another useful way of communicating ways deployed previously was the news, through TV, newspapers, magazines and other publicly useful sold documents. All these communication tools is utilized daily, it was important to normal people, chatting with other people, to being used by special people, like the president, the government, in making significant decisions, discussions and more.

What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?

During a disaster, of course information is imperative in many aspects in this situation, and one of the things that it is that trying to transmit messages, or call someone else to communicate with that person of the current events that's happening to warn them of the current incoming danger that's heading towards for them for example.

What information can be created before the emergency? What needs to be communicated during the emergency?

There are numerous alternatives you can pick to warn the safety of others before any NATURAL disasters can strike the particular persons location, especially those ones who are responsible for the security of others, they should choose variety of choices that are recommended best carefully. For example;

If any natural disasters have strike at the current location previously, then it is significant to AT LEAST include signs everywhere to warn others for their own safety. There should be a drill to practice the evacuation of the civilians at the location, more commercials on TV's, more adds on news and more!, if possible!!

If any natural disasters has never appeared in a particular region, never risked into predicting that the vicinity in that region would be safe. One thing that I know that killed hundreds of thousands of people due to obliviousness to the surroundings was the tsunami that stroked South East Asia several years ago killed approximately 200, 000 people in Sri Lanka, approximately 200 in Malaysia, and several thousands in Indonesia (so many death and investigators failed to submit the exact or approximate number of death from the incident, so many missing bodies), this is a TRUE EXAMPLE all happened too fast, people who were observing this, receiving data of incoming danger from surveillance, radar from space, and didn't had time to warn the locals or execute evacuation protocol in the area. There are more but this is one of the worst recorded ones ON CAMERA, many sources.

What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online?

The difference between software and hardware is that, software has the hardware, software is the program. For example: software like laptops (which is a program, or like a machine), and that software orders the hardware what to do; and the hardware which is available for the machine/program (which is the software like I mentioned before) are like MSN, or skype. Another software and hardware programs are mobile phones and SMS.

The definitions that I say that differs between the two software and hardware are some of the examples that its capabilities and the hardware's software it includes. More examples of hardware that is REQUIRED to be able to communicate online are like telephones, and it's hardware can be voice messages, computers are another software, and the hardware it maintains is facebook, there are more DIVERSE/VARIOUS types of software and hardware, but these are some of the examples I provided.

CLIENT MEETING

1.) Your design and layout of you web pages- does it fit your drawing/plan.

I actually didn't have any plan before I started to design in creating my first page on the iweb. I skipped that process and straight away got to into creating my i web pages since i am aware that i am lack of time. I made progress along the way and modified any things, or problems in the page that I do not desire. So actually, for me this is a more faster, beneficial process, rather than creating a plan at first, which unfortunately will held me back.

2.)Your topic and research. What have you done in class?

We were divided into groups, sort of; what occured was that the teacher divided the class in making a pair of people to research about the same subject and create pages, including front page and for the rest, were for the information. But we didn't work in groups though, it was all an individual group. So it was more like a pair of people researching about the same subject.

3.) Color, front and the use of multimedia?

All, or some at least of my pages include colors that is relevant to the subjects that I am working on. For example, when i am working on my forest fire topic designed on the iweb, the plan I devised to do is to include colors like red, yellow, orange, which are the colors of the fire, or images of trees burned with black smoke, which symbolizes the forest on fire.

4.) Does it have five pages?

The minimum of pages you at least to have is 5, explaining the information including the front/welcome page. But yo can have more than five pages, if you maintain very long, detailed info including pictures and more, you can add more pages.

5.) The features of Apple i web. What is working. What is not working in the iweb applications.

It suits me with the features of Apple i web on how it works. I used to had numerous difficulties with the features of Apple i web, and i cant remember them, but i asked and cooperated with my colleagues that was working nearby me, or I ask my teachers. Unlike most of my classmates, they knew how to use the features of Apple and i web is one of them. The reason this situation in using the Apple i web features is because, I've never used Apple before, and I only used vista and microsoft xp which signifies a huge scale of differences bettween the two ( from Microsoft, Vista and Apple).

6.)Do you have emergency plan? Do you have a reference page.

I dont have them, for now, but i am working into creating the two, I have something else on my mind into successfully finishing things related to these things in my class assigned by our teacher.

7.) You must take screen shots of your iweb ....iWeb, Delicious bookmarks and Google Docs.

....Progressing,.......processing,...... working on it,....... look above.