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.

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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.

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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.

 

 

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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

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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.

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Blog on day 1

During this class period I have been working on research for my first video. I was able to complete the research and I learned a few interesting things about light bulbs for example light bulbs are made out of many dangerous and harmful chemicals to your body even thought they may be very energy efficient. I was also able to storyboard out my first video and I plan to film it over the next weekend when I get my supplies ready. I have also divided up the work by videos. Chaz was able to do the easy bib page and I joined it as well. We created and updated our giant chart as well.

 

During the next class we are going to storyboard out the next two videos. Our next two videos are about vampire devices and making a sustainability garden. We have done a lot of research on vampire devices and I have also done a lot of research on the plants we should grow in our

Garden. I have chosen to grow tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables. I have also chosen to do a longer video on vampire devices because we feel that they are very important to establishing a energy efficient house.

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