Blog 6-EVALUATION

Today, was my last day, and fortunately today, I finished my project ( My partner and I). Overall I could say that this whole unit in our IT class (Global Issues) was fun, because we got to use the Macs, and explore the software on it, and at the same time I also learned quite alot that I hadn't quite expected to do so. And in the end, I wished that we could've had some more time for exploring the MACS and all, but I could say I'm quite happy with what we've done.

Talking about my project I have to say that we did a fairly good job in working up our presentations, and I could say that we did a pretty good job at the parent's night, and I can't wait for our class presentation. So that's pretty much it for the evaluation, but I expect, with a little more time, I could've done a much better job.

Blog #5-Design and Plan

For the Design and Plan stage, we have done a lot of work, and shown below are the detais of our PLAN, and our DESIGN

Our original plan was simple, and contained most of the things Mr. Jones had told us to make for our grade, and our presentation:

• A Brochure done either on Macintosh PAGES, or Microsoft Publisher

• iWeb website done on the Macs (including 7 pages)

• An animoto video

• A voicethread

• A Process Journal

This was our plan, and below is our design. Our Plan was successful, as we completed all of the things we had originally planned to do, and luckily we managed it all in good time.

Our Design was all the things mentioned above, and fortunately we completed all that was planned for the final presentation, and here are our final designs, and some steps we took to reach those goals.

• Brochure: Our brochure is an A4 page split into 3 parts, otherwise a very simple brochure.

A part in the brochure

The brochure again gives statistical info., information about the diseases (prevention, famous diseases, etc.), and of course pictures.

THE FINAL BROCHURE

iWeb:

The iWeb contains same topics as the brochure, but it is more detailed, and more precise, meaning we have put in a lot of information tha is not included in the brochure, and plus we have videos, a picture gallery and more.

*Note: I could not take screen shots of the iWeb, so if it is okay, I can only put up information, but not the screen shots pictures of the iWeb.

Of course, the iWeb also contains some new specials such as some special effects and also be preapred to see lots of cool widgets for attractions!

The Animoto, Voicethread, and Process Journal are all included in the iWeb, but there are also links to them on the iWeb and we will put up the links for you to see as well. That's all for the Plan & Design, and Thank You for reading!

Weekly/Process Journal

Today, I started writing the Process Journal, and recording what I do every day or every week.

This week I was able to cpmplete maybe half of the iWeb, so that was a pretty good start, I suppose. Jassim has published the Animoto, and I think is working on the Voicethread, although I'm not sure because I didn't talk with him, but I hope he got some work done. 

Today was a good day, meaning I got a good amount of work done. I started the iWeb today, and my partner and I finished the Animoto video today. The iWeb seems really easy to do, and I think by next week I'll be able to finish the iWeb, so it shoud fairly easy.  Other than that I'm doing okay, I was able to finish half of the title page, and my partner said that he wanted to finish the other half, and make it look "good", so that's was al we did today. 

Today, I was a little off track, I started off by searching for some songs, but I got distracted, and before I knew it, the lesson was almost over, and I had only managed to complete putting up a few pictures on the iWeb, when who knows, I could've finshed atleast 2 pages. Jassim is almost done with the Voicethread, so that's good. And the other good thing is that I also finished the Brochure put not on the Mac PAGES, because I didn't have it installed on my iMac, so instead I finished it on Microsoft Publisher. That helped alot, and now I can put my mind straight on working on the iWeb. 

Its, already Sunday now, but theiWeb has not been completed, I've got 2 pages more to complete, and that's the only problem Jassim has completed the Voicethread, except for the act that he still has to finish the voice recordings, and hopefully he'll be finished by tomorrow. I've still got the Information page, and the About Us page to complete, and I was also thinking of making a small info. slideshow on the Keynote Program, and make a page for that. Other than that, everything else has been completed, and have finished the Brohure, Jassim's finished the Animoto, and almost has completed the Voicethread, and I'm still wondering if I should do the Keynote, but its probably too late, so coming back the iWeb's the only main thing I have to do.

It's Monday today, and I have finished doing the About Us page, but I have not yet finished doing the Information Page, so that's still something I've got to work on. Today was a bit slow, a simple one page took me like the while lesson, and I haven't asked Jassim yet, but I think he's finished with the Voicethread, hopefully. There isn't anything else to report today, so that should be it. 

It's Thursday now, our last day, but I ended up not finishing my iWeb, and that's a major problem, so I'm thinking, if I can do a bit of it over the weekend, and then I'll have a 10 minute preperation on Sunday, so I can add that information on, on Sunday. I haven't talked with Jassim yet, so I'm not sure at what stage the Voicethread's at, and hopefully its finished, and hopefully, I'll get that 10 minute chance, to work up that iWeb on next Sunday. I've completed the basic 6 pages,and all I need to add, is a little more detail, an I'm finished, so again, hopefully, I'll have that time on Sunday. 

Brainstorm-Global Infectious Diseases

Global Infectious Diseases Brainstorm

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Here is the brainstorm in a aslideshow format

GLOBAL ISSUES

Blog 4-News Article about Global Infectious Diseases

Global Infectious Diseases News Article:

-Developments on Swine Flu Worlwide-The Associated Press

-Swine Flu catching up on the weak world economy-The Associated Press

This 1st News Article talks about the recent development Swine Flu has made on the world. It gives the important details of how Swine Flu is now affecting the world, and its people. Scientists in this article are predicting that if these patterns of number grow at the same rate, Swine Flu can go from epidemic outbreak to pandemic outbreak.

According to April 28th, 2009:

• Deaths: 152(Mexico)




• Sickened: 50 in America, 6 in Canada, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Spain, 1 in Israel, 11 in New Zealand, and 1,995 in Mexico have pneumonia, but Swine flu not conmfired.




• Schools closing worldwide, Britain, United States, and Mexico.




• Mexico suspends all schools until May 6th. Surgical Masks given to public, and World Bank loans Mexico over $200 million dollars.




• WHO(World Health Organiztion) raises the alert level to Phase 4 of 6. Disease spreads easily, can become pandemic, but not easily. Some countries ban pork import, and airports screen travellers from Mexico and Americ.a




• World Stock Markets as investors worry that outbreak could derail economic recovery.

The 2nd News Article talks about how the recent outbreak of the new Swine Flu affecting the economy. The main idea of this article is about the recent pandemic activity of Swine Flu, and how it threatens new storms for the global economy, especially since the crisis just now seemed to settling down.

April 28th, 2009:

Recent news news tells us that the Swine Flu outbreak has unleashed a side effect that threatens the global economy in a very dangerous way.

China, Russia, and South Korea have banned imports of North American Pork, even after assurances that the disease cannot be spread through the meat. Investors had just started to pick themselves up, are now blown down again.

So far, fear of the flu is responible for the economic disruption and the disease itself. In Mexico City the Government has closed down many public places such as movie theaters, night clubs, museums, and other places where publicity can gather."That was a 36% drop in the revenue generated by tourism and services in Mexico city" says Arturo Mendicuti.

Blog 3- 12 Global Issues

1(Global Warming)- "an  increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes"- www.dictionary.com
2(Biodiversity & Ecosystem Losses)- "The preservation of biodiversity is considered by environmentalists to be a major goal of environmental policy" - www.dictionary.com

3(Fisheries Depletion)

- Depletion of fishes by many different causes such as; fish poachers, Global Warming, Pollution in the water, and water poi

soning.

4(Deforestation)

-"to divest or

 clear forests or trees:Deforestation is considered to be a main contributor to

 the greenhouse effect."-Dictionary.com

5(Water Deficits/Crisis)-Water crisis is a term that has been used by some to refer to the world’s water resources relative to human demand. The t

erm has been applied to the worldwide water situation by the United Nations and other world organizations.^[1][2] The major aspects of the water crisis are allegedly overall scarcit

y of usable water^[3] and water pollution.

6(Water/Ocean Pollution)-Point sources of water pollution are

 stationary locations such as sewage treatment plants, factories and ships. Non-point sou

rces are more diffuse and include agricultural runoff, mining activities

 and paved roads.-U.S.A Agency of Environmental Protection

7(Poverty)-the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable a-

mount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations.-Dictionary.com and Poverty.com

8(Peackeeping)-he maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area. The activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)-Dictionary.com

9(Education)-Education for All specialise in providing educational reso

urces to schools and educational projects, in developing countries, to compliment and support the work carried out by Government education ministries and emergency relief and development charities.-http://www.educationforall.com/about-us.html

10(Global Infectious Diseases)-Infections are prevalent in developing countries, where co-infection is common. The adverse impact of infectious diseases is most severe among the poorest people, who have the fewest material, physical and financial resources to draw from and limited or no access to integrated health care, prevention tools and medications. Infectious diseases raise awareness of our global vulnerability, the need for strong health care systems and the potentially broad and borderless impact of disease.-http://www.globalhealth.org/infectious_diseases/

11(Digital Divide)- Technology - even in small amounts- is helping developing nations and communities overcome tradition totake leaps forward. The digital divide is most commonly defined as the gap between those individuals and communities that have, and do not have, access to the information technologies that are transforming our lives.-http://www.edutopia.org/digital-divide-where-we-are-today

12(Natural Disasters)- Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, electrical storms. These are merely a few of the beautiful yet destructive natural disasters that plague our lives. People marvel at these incredible feats but, to many, how they function remains a mystery.- http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00758/en/home.html 

Blog 2-Global Issues

Topic: Global Warming

WEBSITE: FACEBOOK.COM>>>>>>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20009925629

Information:

"Global warming is real and it's affecting earth and everything in it, that includes each and everyone of us! Please help to raise awareness. Get people to understand what global warming is, what's causing it and to learn what little things everyone can do easily on a daily basis to help stop global warming."--Jason Chen

"Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface. This rising in temperature obviously give us hotter weather, strange weather pattern, melts the ice at north pole that decreases the living habitat for animals such as polar bear, increases the sea level and causes many island and shorelines to decrease in size, and also affects the growing of crops for consumption. There are many causes to this temperature rise, and big part of it is resulted from human activities. Things such as electricity that we use require burning of the fossil fuel and produces heat and CO2. Too much of this that earth can not "handle" result in this temperature increase. So some simple things we can do is to decrease in electricity usage. You can use energy-saving light bulbs, turn off lights when they are not needed, use a fan instead of air conditioner in warm weather,... etc. Cars are also another big pollutant so cut down on driving, car pool, take public transportation, ride bicycle or simply just walking whenever possible would help. Everything we use in our lives require resources to create and produce heat and CO2, so make sure they are not wasted, try to reuse or recycle. This is just some basics about global warming, to read more, check out the links in the "Posted Items" section or discuss them in the discussion board! If you have any good links, feel free to post them up for others to read.

Let's all be responsible earthlings and help preserve this great planet we live on for ourselves and our children! Take action now!


Special thanks to the following app for linking to this group.http://apps.facebook.com/billionbillion/"--Jason Chen

Questions & Answers:

1)- The Internet is a great resource for information of all kinds, and it can help us to great extent to find out information about Global Warming. Since Global Warming is a worlwide issue, many people all over the world are involved in trying to solve it. That's why there are so many internet websites, blogs, articles, and feeds for Global Warming. And thanks to these Internet resources we are able to make changes, and we are able to make a difference in our world. We can set up blogs and feeds that help alert people that our world is at risk and may be in danger. Social Networking sites like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace allow people to hold discussions with people worldwide.It also lets us discuss with people over what's wrong and right about how to help, and in what ways can we help. We can also hold special events such as fundraisers, fundraiser dinners, and festivals that donate all money towards Global Warming Research, or other topics. We can post these events over the internet, send invitations by e-mail, and many more other internet resources.

2)- Many new internet resources such as the many Web 2.0 tools that are releasing newly by the day can help us support our online publications and posts. Such tools are widgets, and they are commonly found throughout the internet. Widgets can help us support many online publications, and are really nifty. Another good tool is the "embed code", which helps us emebed many things such as tools, videos, and pictures. The "embed code" enables us to support much of our online publications and posts. And that's how these internet resources can help us out in online publications, and posts.

3)- We already know that the Internet is an amazing resource, and we all can use to the benefit for all of mankind. We can use the internet access to help each other across the internet. We can all help the community by holding special events as mentioned above. We can also hold discussions and group events that could help the community, and that could benefit the community in some way, for example a community park cleanup. So you can hold the event over the internet, and invite the many members of your community to come and help out.

INVESTIGATION

Blog 1-The Design Cycle

The Design Cycle has 5 different aspects which are:

-INVESTIGATE

-PLAN

-DESIGN

-CREATE

-EVALUATE


INVESTIGATE: Identify the problem needed to be solved, then develop the design briefly, and formulate a design specification.

PLAN: Plan the product or solution PLAN

DESIGN: Design the product or solution

CREATE: Follow the plan thoroughly, and use appropriate techniques and equipment.Then create the product or solution.

EVALUATE: Evaluate the product or solution, and also remember to evaluate the use of the design cycle. EVALUATE