Sunday, November 30, 2008

How Natural Disasters can be helped by technology

Natural disasters can be helped by technology, it can be helped by flicker. It can also be helped by youtube because if a hurricane for an example comes then someone can take pictures and videos to put on the news so the people that live in that area can be warned instead of disasters happening and people dieng. This is how technology can be helping disasters. Another good site is called DELICOUS...in delicous there is a big range of pictures and alot of people are members so then you can put a warning so people can be aware..here are some pictures 
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Design CYCLE


In the design cycle you have to do certain steps and do them in order to make something like a robot. the first step of the design cycle is investigate, in the investigate we looked at robots. we found a various amount of information while we were looking at the investigation. the next step of the design cycle is planning, when you are planning you just find how and what you are going to create, then the next step is creating what you planned and because you investigated and planned you are now ready for the create. the last step of the design cycle is evaluate, in the evaluate you just reflect on the disadvantages and advantages of the whole project you are creating and you can also say what you have learnt and how it is useful in life.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Evaluation and Reflection








What worked well in this project?




Many things worked well in this projects. For an example, making win logo codes was very successful and we made, 2d, 3d and animations.







What did not work in this project?

There where some things that did not work well in this project and one of those things are, making programs for the robots that we where asked to do, another thing that did not work was robot lab, robot lab had a glitch was that we couldn't program a robot to do what we want the robot to do.



What could be improved?



Things in this project can be improved like the way you do things on the wiki spaces site, because may times it was lagging, and it is much harder to use unlike Microsoft word.



How can these things be improved?


Maybe the wiki spaces site can be changed so it is much easier to make blogs on the wiki space site. Changing the font and size was very confusing so if it was similar to the word Microsoft document. There should also be a save button because there where many times in the past where i lost most of my work, there is a save button but again the wiki spaces site is very slow and it is confusing when it asks me to recover a draft because either way you would loose your work and that is one of the biggest problem. there also is not a spelling check button and sometimes that is very useful because sometimes when people read the wiki we mean something and people don't understand something and plus, people are usually making mistakes on the wiki and other things will come up. one of the biggest problems on wiki is PUTTING PICTUES AND VIDEOS! that takes a very long time and it is confusing!