During the past week we have been working really hard to catch up to other people and some of that work includes doing mathematical calculations on what produces how much methane each animal produces and how factory's are working to produce methane. We are also deciding on what dishes we should place into our recipe book. So far we have decided on making an edamame recipe and we have also decided on making a cheese ball recipe for the appetizers. We will also be making a banana smoothie with out ice cream or any other dairy products. One other thing that we have decided upon is publishing our book on lulu. We think that lulu is very inexpensive and a good printing source. I personally like our project and am enjoying working on it. One problem we are having is deciding alternatives because we don't know any other food items that are similar to edamame. We were thinking of using edamame as an alternative for potato chips. We are also thinking of just adding meat to our original dishes for example we were going to make a beef casserole instead of a tuna casserole. I am glad we switched projects from videos to cooking.
Friday, May 20, 2016
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Friday, May 13, 2016
Work week reflection
Today in class we received feedback from two groups. We received feedback from both Coke and brooks, and Nicole. Brooks told us to utilize more space and to also use the titles and bary them in size and color. He said of the dish is spicy we can change the color to read and have a sort of color coding system to our project. I liked this idea and want to change it to this before we present to everyone at the year end marketplace. Brooks also gave our group a wonderful suggestion about making more use of space by showing the individualized graphs for each section because right now our graphs are all over the place. Sadly our next partner looked through our book and continued to attack the group next to us on their design. The only piece of feedback that she gave was to add more pictures. Chaz and I gave coal's group a lot of feedback regarding their poster. We thought that they should change the words to be a lot more accurate for example instead of saying CO2 emitted they could say CO2 emitted per year. I enjoyed listening to Kody's presentation and told him to make the objective a little bit clearer.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Movie reflection
During last class period we watched a movie that was about the many different types of education systems out there. Some of the systems have been out there for the longest time ever since the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was a period were people had to do the same average thing every day because there weren't that many diverse job opportunities. So the way that people are being taught and educated are preparing for the same type of work they did back then they are preparing for the steel ages and aren't helping kids prepare for a technologically advanced society were robots can beat people in games such as jeopardy and chess. One way to prepare kids for a job in the future is to make kids interact and do project based activities so that students prepare for the future. I am glad that I am in a program similar to high tech high because the statistics of students who graduate from that school and get accepted into collage is 98%. I fell that high tech high is a very innovative school that will Change education and persuade other schools to follow. I like the gear project that the students did.
2nd prototype
During today's class we were working on showing our class mates our second prototypes. We showed everyone our cook book and many people liked some of the dishes however many people were a little skeptical about the potato and asparagus dish. I am planing to make the dish later and give all of them a try to show that it does work. The dish itself is a little tangy and the asparagus balances it out. The dish is very simple and it can be made within 20-30 minutes. It's a good party dish and it tastes really delicious. Chaz and I also made edamame for the class and it is one of our dishes. Making the edamame was very easy however it took me two attempts to make it delicious. The first time I burned it a little and the second time I made it very spicy however the third time I made it taste very good. I enjoyed making the edamame. I received a lot of feedback and some of the most important pieces of feedback that I received was about changing the names from things such as potato asparagus to a cooler name. I also learned that I need more recipes.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Blog weekly
Halfway through this week I decided to change my topic for making informative videos to a pescitarian recipe book. We are going to have 6 appetizers 10 entrees 4 deserts and 2 drinks. This cook book is going to be able to help the environmental because it will be using animals and vegetables which means that it won't use as much methane gas (which is more harmful than CO2 to the environment) to destroy the environment. I like this idea because it will be combining some of my favorite things which include cooking and protecting the environment. So far we have both been able to create a combined 11 recipes. We have manly focused on entrees and appetizers. We will finish our book by next week Friday and have that as our prototype. I have enjoyed cooking the recipes and I've taste tasted 4 of those recipes. I like the way they taste and over the weekend I'll work on making many more recipes. I have worked on making more recipes today and I've written my about page. I have also emailed chef liong and asked him if he had any begin recipes that we could use. I'm glad we could switch topics.
Friday, April 15, 2016
April 11 work
During this week I had been very productive and accomplished many tasks one of those many tasks that I accomplished was finishing the write up of my script. I also finished the rest of my storyboards and research during these past few class periods. I was surprised to learn that an electric water heater uses more energy than any other appliance in a house. I also learned of many ways to reduce your electric bill for example the water heater is automatically set to the heist temperature and reducing it by 2 settings can reduce your bill by 10-15 dollars. I also learned about how good insulating the water heater is. I didn't know that insulating your hot water pipes could reduce your bill by 7 dollars on average per month. I was really surprised about this statistic. One more statistic I was surprised about was the cost of running and operating a TV. If you don't have a Samsung energy star TV than a large portion of your electric bill would be the cost that it takes to run the appliance. I was also able to create a rough model of my first video today. I think that it will be a lot better after I add special effects.
Some of the feedbac I received was to make only one video were it explains everything however I didn't think that this would be possible. I was also told to try and do a pool pump and how much electricity does that waits
Friday, April 8, 2016
Week of April 4th
During today's work day I did a little bit of research on light bulbs. I learned about all the different types of bulbs. Their was a catalog with a bunch of information on bulbs however if you click on a certain bulb it will tell you information about it. I learned that a CFL light bulb is incredibly shatter resistant that's why the poisonous property's of that light bulb stay inside of the bulb. I also learned that fluorescent light bulbs have the weakest frame so they have the largest potential to be the most harmful out of all the light bulbs. I also learned about a plastic coding that can be placed around bulbs to make the bulbs stronger and more resistant to breaking. I also shifted my focus from filming a video were I personally read out from a script to go animate. My partner and I felt that since we are doing educational videos we should use go animate. I worked on choosing a type of go animate video. we decided on common craft. For the future we will work on adding characters such as dale who will be the main educator in this series. We will also work on adding drawings such as light bulbs to the story.