Evaluation: Common mistakes Sunday, 30 November 2008
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This is a brief compilation of the common omissions in the Evaluation section of the MYP Computer Technology projects:
- Some students forget to implement the ways of testing the product compliance to the Design Specification. Remember the last part of your Investigation? The tests you designed there (the ones to check that your final product contains all your Design Specs.) should be done when you finish your product, and the results should be published in the Evaluation.
- Don’t forget to suggest improvement to these ways of testing. More testers? More questions? Better questions? More ways?
- Most students evaluate their performance at each stage of the project (Investigation, Design, Plan, Creation), but forget to suggest improvements at each stage. Do this for a better level of achievement.
- Many students forget to comment on the impact of your product/project in the local and global community. This, in a few words, means: how do you think your product could change things in your immediate community (people close to you) and globally (the world)?
Hope this helps you!
Check the rest of the “common mistakes” entries under this tag: mistakes
Creation: Common mistakes Sunday, 30 November 2008
Posted by Delta in myp comp apps 10, myp comp apps 9, myp comp studies g1, myp comp studies g2.Tags: creation, mistakes, myp, project
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In nutshell, these are the common mistakes students do in the Creation stage of their MYP Computer Technology projects:
- The journal entries are not dated. Each journal entry should start with the date, as this will make things easier for you when you evaluate the plan and your personal performance.
- The screenshots are small, generic, and show you doing some work on the computer. Your screenshots should clearly show how you created your product. Therefore, the screenshots should show your work with the specific application(s) that you used to put your product toghether.
- The screenshots show how you do the same things over and over. You do not need to show the same simple procedures more than once. Say, you show in three screenshots how to insert an image into a web page. You may later say that you used the same steps shown in journal entry xx/xx/xx to insert the other images as well.
- Some students forget that the journal shows the implementation of the plan. Check back with your plan and compare your progress. Any differences between what you planned to do, and when, should be shown somewhere. Justify them and (if appropriate) say what you will do to keep your deadlines (interim and final).
- Did you make any modifications as you were creating the product? Document any modifications to your (design) product. Justify them clearly.
I hope this helps you improve the quality of your work.
Check the rest of the “common mistakes” entries under this tag: mistakes
Media conversion Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Posted by Delta in comp apps 11/12, myp comp apps 10, myp comp apps 9, myp comp studies g1, myp comp studies g2, tech support.Tags: conversion, convert, file, free, media, online
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These solutions may not compare with paid proprietary specialised software, but they’re free. Many students have asked the same question, i.e. how to convert media files from and to different formats.
How to convert a Jing movie (SWF, Flash) to Quicktime so I can use it with other Mac applications? (Such as iMovie)
- http://media-convert.com/ Follow the instructions, read the FAQ
- http://www.zamzar.com/ Free online file conversion (does media and other file formats as well)
- http://ffmpegx.com/ Software for Mac (free, but not easy to set up)
- http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/download.php Software for Windows (free)
- Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter Software for Winfows, free
- http://pwnyoutube.com/ Easy and free online conversion of Youtube videos (flv, mp4)
Spam & Click Sunday, 23 November 2008
Posted by Delta in myp comp apps 10, myp comp studies g1, myp comp studies g2.Tags: computer technology, resource, web
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There’s an interesting article on spam here. It’s called “Spam War” by David Reid. It may be useful to some of you who are dealing with this topic.
Besides, http://bbcworldnews.com/click is a good resource for technology news. You can catch it on tv or online.
Jing to web page (HTML) Friday, 21 November 2008
Posted by Delta in comp apps 11/12, myp comp apps 10, myp comp apps 9, myp comp studies g1, myp comp studies g2, tech support.Tags: flash, html, jing, web
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An easier way first, then a more detailed explanation if you check this web page for instructions on how to manually insert the HTML code required to show movies (SWF), like the ones made with Jing.
Otherwise, you could use the following instructions (summarised from this photobucket forum entry):
<embed width=”xxx” height=”yyy” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”filename or URL for swf file goes here“></embed>
Replacing the following text in the code above:
- xxx is the pixel width of image
- yyy is the pixel height of image
- filename or URL for swf file goes here is replaced with the URL code from under your swf file in your Photobucket account.
How stuff works Thursday, 20 November 2008
Posted by Delta in comp apps 11/12, miscellaneous, myp comp apps 10, myp comp apps 9, myp comp studies g1, myp comp studies g2, pd.Tags: reference, resource, web
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If you haven’t visited this site, do so. It may be useful to your projects, or to satisfy your curiosity.
This link will take you to the computer channel, but there are others. Explore!
Tech Helper MYP Project Thursday, 20 November 2008
Posted by Delta in myp comp apps 9.Tags: deadline, myp, project
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If you want feed back on your Creation and Evaluation, you may submit these sections of your project by Wednesday 26 November.
The final dedaline for the whole project (design folder, AKA write-up or report, plus a CD with the product, softcopies of the journal and design folder) is the first lesson after exam week.
Dangers of Technology MYP Project Thursday, 20 November 2008
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If you want feed back on your Creation and Evaluation, you may submit these sections of your project Thursday 27.Nov.08.
Our first class after exam week is the deadline for our “Dangers of tech.” MYP Project.
“Older” Apple iMovie Thursday, 20 November 2008
Posted by Delta in comp apps 11/12, myp comp apps 10, myp comp apps 9, myp comp studies g1, myp comp studies g2, tech support.Tags: download, free, ilife, imovie, software
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If you’ve got a new Apple Mac computer that came with iLife ‘08, you may have been frustrated with the new iMovie.
At school we have both iMovie 08 and HD 6, so if you have a Mac at home and want to get iMovie HD 6, just head to this webpage to download it. It’s free for iLife 08 users.
Welcome to hstech.wordpress.com Saturday, 15 November 2008
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Feel free to navigate and explore our blog, a tool of communication and also a useful resource for our community.
We suggest you to start by picking the appropriate category (they reflect the different subjects/classes or areas of interest), check our recent posts, dig in our archives or the tag cloud, and take a quick look at the del.icio.us bookmarks that we collect as we surf the vastness of the web.
