Wednesday, 28th November 2007

As previously planned, today was in fact the last day of the I.T course as well as the due date of the entire project. As I had posted on my blog, today I did the corrections and went through the entire project. I improved on a number of things, and made some hyperlinks for referencing. I must say that I enjoyed this project because it was educational, as it taught the students to look at business and safety from another point of view. I am also of the opinion that this project was relatively successful. I was on task at most times, and therefore never struggled on any point of the project.

Monday, 26th November 2007

Today, I finally completed my project: Investigate, Plan, Create, Evaluate. However, in the last I.T class, day 28, I plan to complete all my suggested corrections . I am also going to go through the work that I already did.

Monday, 26th November 2007 - at home

Today, I completed the create and evaluate. In the create section, however, I made some modifications in relation to my plan. I happened to remove the number 000 when in emergency situation, thinking that maybe it wouldn't contibute a lot for the noticing of the emergency.

Monday, 26th November 2007

In class today, I got up to the stage where I was almost completing the Create section. Unfortunately, I did not accomplish this goal, as I started by completing my Flowchart, something that I had not previously completed. However, I plan to finish this section as well as the evaluate section after school at home. Obviously, the due date of the project is on the 28 November (Wednesday) and I plan only to go over my whole project on this class period. I believe that I worked extremely effectively today, and managed to complete a lot of work. I will post a message on the afternoon, to describe the work done.

Monday, 21st November 2007

In this day, all the class presented their ideas for their product. I presented my idea, being that it is a wrist pager that vibrtates, beeps, displays a red light and shows the number 000. My product received the following feedback:

1. Would it be easy to use?

Yes, it would be relatively easy to use and to understand, as it contains many features that help an individual know whether their in danger or not.

2. Is it practical?

It is practical because it is placed around the wrist or ankle, not bethering too much.

3. Is it realistic?

It is not very realistic, as a device with so many features wouldn't cost so little to the public.

4. Would it be affordable?

It would be completely affordable to the public, as it only costs 5€ per day for such an effective product.

5. Is it durable?

It is durable because its design contains satellite methods instead of being a simple device.

6. Would it be effective?

It would definetly be effective, as it vibrates, beeps, shows a red light and shows an emergency number. Therefore, the person will undoubtedly notice the signal. Nonetheless, maybe such a complicated design would not be necessary, as in the Guincho beach there aren't many severe sudden storms.

Any one else that wishes to comment on my presentation, is free to do so and contact me.

Wednesday, 16th November 2007

Today, I happened to be absent from school for I was ill. However, I managed to complete some work at home. I improved point 10 of the plan section. I plan to complete the create section in this weekend, and the evaluation throughout the week.

Wednesday, 14th November 2007

Today, I discussed the Investigation section of my project with Ms. Dietrich and made some inmprovements on several points that I made. However, I was able to achieve level 6 (out of six) and am very proud of my accomplishement. Apart from this, today, I made some advancements to the powerpoint presentation to present my design of the plan section. Conversely, I did not manage to finish this. I believe I was on task today, and advanced on the Investigate section (as it was today that I managed to actually go through this with my teacher).

Monday, 12th November 2007

In this day, an extremely different and interesting event occureed. Today, Ms. Oldsen, senior school librarian, taught year 10 how to evaluate a web site (URL) by looking at the content, the register and the author of the text. This, I believe will be extremely beneficial for me, as well as for my fellow classmates as source analysis is a very important detail of a high number of courses, such as History and Scientific research. This skill is also applied for many careers, amongst these, journalism, archeology, crimininology, literature analogy, etc. As well as, you can apply this form of evaluation to documents, fact books and other sources.

Wednesday, 7th November 2007

Today, I believe that I was concentrated on my task and managed to complete a large amount of work. I started to work on my oral presentation on Microsoft powerpoint, as well as adding some extra information to the first section of PLAN.

Monday, 5th of November 2007

Today, I have completed the first point of the plan section and started the flowchart on Microsoft Visio. I believe the work that I did today was extremely effective as I was concentarted on the task and really got in the idea of the project. My aim for next class is that I am as concentarted as I was today and manage to complete a large amount of work. Personally, I am prefering teh Plan section to the investigate section, as I can put more creativity and individual ideas into it. The following diagram is an example of my work in class