2H (25-28) GRACE 2010 BLOG

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Week 4 Reflection
Questions on Tsunamis I sorted out
What causes Tsunamis?
How could tsunami effect the population?
Examples of effect caused by tsunami
What is a tsunami?
Is Singapore safe from tsunami threats?

I was warned by Mr. Seow that i have to make up for the reflections i did not do.

Our group had finished the Project Planner A and B , and changed our final product to a small Game.

So far , We have done the following ;
1. Create a Group Name
2. Create a Group Blog
3. Researched on the topic we want to do
4. Decided on the Final Product
5. Posted our reflections after each lesson(Well, i am still making up for that :P)

6. Formed the basic foundation for the Game
7. Made a Project Planner
8. Uploaded the project planner on top

Next , we want to ;
1. Improvise the prototype of the game

2. Make the game more interesting from what it is now

3. Develop more ideas for the game
4. Research more on the Topic of the Game
5. Create the basic game
6. Test the game on our family members and friends and ask for their opinions
7. Furthur improve on the game
8. Ask for our teacher's opinion
9. Do the necessary changes to the game .

Throughout all these lessons , we all have learnt many things .
For Example ;
1. Many unknown facts about World Weather Disasters ( Tsunamis,Earthquake,Typhoon etc. ) 2.How to make , Update , and maintain a Blog
3. How to update files on Google Docs and make a quick link to the Blog
4. How to plan our project
5. How to allocate tasks effectively, so that the work will be more efficient .

This Project is getting more interesting more and more . I can't wait to see the board game we are making out!

Week 4 Reflection
Basic Question on Tsunamis I have sorted out for target for our project


1.What causes Tsunamis?
2.How could tsunami effect the population?
3.Examples of effect caused by tsunami
4.What is a tsunami?
5.Is Singapore safe from tsunami threats?
6.How do we detect tsunami beforehand?

Ideas i thought of

I think that creating a board game on Tsunamis will be fun. We would have to research and make reference to other board games,to see if our idea will actually work out in an actual board game system. Then we still have to do even more research on tsunami before we start the actuall making in order to make the game more fun and enjoyable.


Learning Issues :

I want to find out more about Tsunamis , so that I could create a fun board game that teaches people facts about Tsunamis that are unknown to them. I want to create an new kind of game , and I want to learn how to make the game fun and enjoyable , so that people would develop an interest in the subject of tsunami, and would learn more about it on their own out of intrest.

Action i should take

I think i have to spare more time from my weekends to do researchs on Tsunami as they are essential to the success of making the game.

Our Leader, Nicholas, and TiC, Mr Melvin Seow was absent
So basically we have to do it on our own.

So, i have to get started with the project

Facts : What I know about Surveys

It is a method for collecting quantitative information about items in a population.
A survey may focus on opinions or factual information depending on its purpose.
Many surveys involve administering questions to individuals.

Ideas : What I think about surveys

I think surveys are a very efficient method to collect opinions or facts depending on the topic. It will be a very fast way of collection various information. I think surveys should have more close ended questions as the person doing the survey would save more time and find it hassle-free. Although there should be more close-ended questions, there should still be 1 or 2 open ended questions.

Learning Issues : What I found out in the survey

I found out more about surveys;
(1) How to form questions on the topic
(2) How to make relevant questions based on the topic
(3) How to form a proper survey which consists of the right number of open-ended and close-ended questions.
(4) How to make a survey which is both interesting and effective to the person doing it
(5) How to create and make a google-doc survey

Action Plan : What can I do after the survey

(1) Change our group's final product to the most popular survey choice
(2) Further develope our game based on the surveys
(3) Improve and make our game more interesting and educational

Nicholas

We have made a lot of progress and finished planners A and B

So far, we have...

Set up a Group Blog
Made a name for our blog
Found a topic that we are interested in
Decided on a final product
thought of a basic plan out for the game
did a project planner
posted reflections for every week of class


next we want to
make further progress with our game
test the game on others to survey it
create the basics on the game
seek other opinions and views


so far we have learnt how to
manage and maintain a full working blog
how google docs help a lot in our productivity rate
how to allocate different reponsibilities to different people
to plan and properly organise our project

We did not really discuss much as we were only sorting out the task allocations this week.

We Finished the Project Planner A and B , and changed our final product to a small Game.

So far , We have done the following ;
(1) Create a Group Name (Team Salvation)
(2) Create a Group Blog
(3) Researched on the topic we were interested in (Tsunamis)
(4) Uploaded the research file on the blog
(5) Decided on the Final Product (Game)
(6) Posted our reflections after each lesson
(7) Formed the basic foundation for the Game
(8) Made a Project Planner
(9) Uploaded the project planner on top

Next , we want to ;
(1) Improve the game
(2) Make the game more interesting
(3) Develope more ideas for the game
(4) Research more on the Topic of the Game
(5) Create the basic game
(6) Test the game on our family members and friends and ask for their opinions
(7) Furthur improve on the game
(8) Ask for our teacher's opinion
(9) Do the necessary changes to the game .

Throughout all these lessons , we all have learned many things .
For Example ;
(1) Many unknown facts about World Weather Disasters ( Tsunamis )
(2) How to make , Update , and maintain a Blog
(3) How to update files on Google Docs and make a quick link to the Blog
(4) How to plan our project
(5) How to allocate tasks effectively, so that the work will be more efficient .

This Project is getting more interesting lesson by lesson . I look forward to the results of our hard work and determination .


Nicholas

Leader was absent. We just talked basically nonsense as teacher was absent too. I know im contradicting Matthew and Nicholas but I'm just typing out what i remembered.
We did not discussed much and the only thing I did was to download the tsunami file from this blog.