G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #26

Today you should start working on Create stage developing your chosen Design that should:

• explain in a short period of time (under 2 min) the WA Tour Stop you have assigned
• be digital
• hosted online
• be accessible by reading a QR code
• be accesible/usable/viewable using a mobile device
• take into account the audience expectations
• meet your design specifications (essential and desirables) that you developed in your Investigate stage.

Remember to:

• make  Process Journal entries for every class
• during Create stage please make extra detailed entries showing your step by step progress featuring visual evidence (screen shots, pictures, diagrams, etc)
• talk about your time management and how you are following (or not) your Plan.
• Do you ned to make any changes to your chosen Design?

Keep an eye on the Due Dates for Project 2 and You can always use the Design Folder Checklist and the Assignments Standards to make sure your assignments are complete.

G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #16

Following our G10 Due dates webpage, today will work on Evaluate stage. Please use all the information and feedback from users/audience/players that you collected yesterday and the day before during the advisory periods when you tested your products following the agree schedule:  G10 project 1 Implementation during Advisory

I am posting below a slideshow of the pictures I took during this project. Feel free to use them to compare your original chosen design against the final product you created. If you have any photos that you have taken, please share them with me so I can add them to the slide show for Project1.


G10 Working Bees: 2011-2012 G10 Technology Project 1: Digital Citizenship



Evaluate stage is due today:  

• Include the feedback received from the testers/users/players.
• Analyse results of questionnaires if any used for testing your product / solution.
• Include a detailed evaluation of your performance at each stage of the design cycle by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each stage. 
• Include ideas on how each stage could have been improved.
• Compare the predicted time plan with the actual and give reasons for the changes (include graph and annotations)
• Compare the chosen Design with the actual product and give reasons for the changes (include original design sketch and final product sketch/pic)
• Include a discussion on the impact of the product on yourselves, others and/or the environment.

Remember that you can an always use the Design Folder Checklist to make sure your Evaluate stage is complete.


When you finish working on your Shared Doc, please download a copy of your shared doc as pdf and resubmit it following the steps to submit your assignments posted in the MYP Technology website. Thank you.

G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #13

Based on our experience with the Create stage last class, we decided we will use this class to finish working on Create stage in order to finish buidling your product.

I have updated the G10 Due dates webpage to reflect this change of dates.

By the end of today you will need to fully develop:

1. Process Journal

2. Include tools and techniques you used to create your game

3. Time management: Did you follow your time plan? How?

4. Changes made to your chosen design? Why? How?

You can always use the Design Folder Checklist to make sure your Create stage is complete. For more details in Create stage visit Tech class #12 blog entry.

Product and Process Journal should be finished by today. Thanks!

G10 2nd Semester Tech Class #11

Today we will start working on Create stage. Please visit the G10 Due dates webpage to plan your time wisely.

For this stage it is super important to look into these:

1. Your complete Process Journal with :

• dated journal entries including Visual Evidence (designs, sketches, screen shots, pictures, etc that show how the steps you took to create the product)
• notes regarding any changes made: e.g. added a step, changed the order of tasks, changed the tools, used another resource, didn't need a resource, didn't finish what was planned etc.
• how did the group work? Did you have any issues? How did you overcome them, if any?

2. Explain what tools and techniques you used to create your product

3. How was your time management: Have you followed your timeline? How? Did you need to add more tasks? Did you have to skip/delete tasks? Did you need a different resource? etc...

4. Have you made any changes to your chosen design? Why? How?

You can always use the Design Folder Checklist to make sure your Create stage is complete.