Grade 7 Tehcnology

5 sources for The best part of me project

2008-03-25T18:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/MrsThonus/student.cfm?subpage=183068

http://www.hpspalmerbestpartofme.blogspot.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linee/544319743/

http://pages.lindberghschools.ws/education/projects/projects.php?sectionid=1163&PHPSESSID=93a644473f6183243c25e760ca8c2ed2

http://mrsvittoriosgrade.com/best_part_of_me.htm

These sources are relevant because it shows what the project is about. In source 1 and 5 there are children talking about the best part of themselves, and in the rest of the sources there are adults talking about the best part of themselves too. All of them chose a physical body part, and they wrote poems about them. These people described the project well, and followed the instructions to doint the project.

Printing the Photograph

2008-03-24T11:29:00.000-07:00

When I printed my final product I saved my picture on my drive and then I put it on my pen drive. I gave the pen drive to the teacher and she opened the folder. The computer said my pen drive had a virus, but that didn't affect the actual process of printing the picture. The text on my picture was a little bit to the side, but when the picture printed all the letters showed. The picture printed on glossy paper the way I liked it.

Canvassing

2008-02-29T10:48:00.000-08:00

I set up my photograph in a canvas on photoshop. I clicked on the tool bar and I adjusted the photograph to the description that I wanted and the description on the paper. I asked for help to the teacher because I did not know how to adjust it so the photograph was visible, because when I put it to the description I wanted, it came out too little. Later I made there be enough space for text on the canvas, and I started to type.

Taking the Photograph

2008-02-27T10:24:00.000-08:00

Today I took my photograph. I walked into class and I took a camera from school,a tripod, and a case. I went to the butterfly garden to take my picture. I didn't take my picture where I said I would because I thought this other location would be better. I had 2 people taking my picture, with the same camera. I laid in the mud holding a flower and took my picture. My picture barely fit my description, I changed it a lot. I didn't take the picture in the place of the butterfly garden i said I was because I thought this other location fit my favorite part well, in the point of it. I also did something differently which was hold a flower and lay int he dirt because I thought that the vines I was surrounded by gave the photograph a more "sensitive" effect.

Writing the Text

2008-02-25T11:11:00.000-08:00

Today, February 25, I wrote the essay for the picture of the best part of me. I wrote it in class and I had Alexa revise it. I listened to the comments and I wrote my final draft. I added and took away some things that didn't make sense. After that I checked it one more time, and I sent it to Ms. Chebly by CIC gmail. The document is saved on my home drive and on the CIC gmail.
I will adapt the essay to my picture. My essay has a bit more than 200 words.

Selecting a photograph and editing

2008-02-19T10:50:00.000-08:00

Today I edited my photograph. I picked the picture that showed the best part of me,my sensitivity, (design number 11), and I opened it on Photoshop. The picture was a bit blurry so I clicked on sharpen, to make it clearer. I left a little bit of the blur on because I thought it gave it a dramatic effect. I put other types of blur in it, but I decided to take it out because it didn't do anything for the picture. Next, I rotated the canvas to make it portrait-like. I changed some things on my description. One of the things I changed was the position I'd be in taking the picture. I changed this because my friends gave me a better idea that I thought would make my picture better, so I used it. I also changes what I'd be doing and holding because my friends suggested to hold a flower instead of crying because it was easier and it showed my favorite part better, so I did it. I changed the location in the butterfly garden because I thought it would be better to take it in the plants and mud instead of where the blue flowers are because there was no space close to the flowers and me laying down would express my sensitivity more because the background is vines, which I think shows one's sensitivity well. Lastly, the other thing i did different was that I didn't use a tripod. I didn't use a tripod because it was more difficult to get the angle that I wanted with a tripod, so my friend took my picture standing up, while I was laying down on the mud.

Plan of Picture

2008-02-13T11:00:00.000-08:00

The design that I picked was number 1. Design number 1 is the one that I think shows the best part of me because it shows my sensitiveness and i have the resources that I could easily get. The surroundings also relate to my favorite part and it helps me show it since the best part of me isn't physical.
I will come to class on Tuesday February 15 to take my picture.I will take my picture in the butterfly garden. I will set up in the area where the blue plants are.I will ask Maria Alejandra to take the picture on an angle where i will be seen. The materials I will use are a digital camera, a tripod, and a case for the camera that I will borrow from the school. I will have a variety of pictures that I will choose from. I will show them to Ms. Chebly . I will download them onto my computer and put them in my home drive. I will choose 1 from all of them.Later I will download it onto my pen drive and save it.

Analysis Of all The Information Read

2008-02-07T11:21:00.000-08:00

I found 5 poems of 5 kids that did the best part of me project, but on the site there were many more poems, so I will do an analysis on all of them. All of the poems were of 5 lines or so. The kids all wrote about what they thought was the best part of themselves and described it. They took a picture of their favorite part or of them using it. They talked about how the part helped them in their everyday life.
I noticed that each of them chose a different body part, and they used adjectives to describe them like crazy, or great. They all chose spots in nature to take their picture, and no ton e of them took it in a building. They all described the features of their body part. They had 40 word poems, three sentences describing what their body part helped them at in life.

The Best part of me

2008-01-30T17:23:00.000-08:00

I think that the best part of me is my sensitivity. I think that th best part of me is my sensitivity because it is what people most notice when they meet me. Also it makes me act the way I do towards others, towards the environment and towards myself.I also think my sensitivity is what makes me react in a certain way to a specific situation, either something is happening to me or is happening to another person. The final reason that I think my sensitivity is the best part of me is because it is not physical and I thought it would be a challenge to explain to others.

Investigate: Guiding Questions

2008-01-29T10:41:00.000-08:00

Guiding Questions:

How can we best express the best part of ourselves using digital photography?

How can we best express ourselves using writing?

How can we apply the techniques of photography we used in older projects to this new project?

Investigate: Relation of Problem of Areas of Interaction

2008-01-29T10:38:00.000-08:00

Approaches to learning: I learn how to use new materials. We learn about ourselves. We learn to express what we feel.

Community and Service: We teach others about our uniqueness. We show others our pictures and show them what we think about ourselves.

Homofaber: We create pictures to show the class. We create poems describing the best part of ourselves.

Investigate: Relevance of the Problem

2008-01-29T10:36:00.000-08:00

Relevance: The problem is important because it helps explain to others what what I think the favorite part of me is. It helps show my feelings. I can learn more about my body. It helps other people know about me. It helps me express what part if me I think is unique.

Investigate:The Problem

2008-01-29T10:33:00.000-08:00

The Problem: How can we best express the best part of ourselves using digital photography and writing? The first thing I have to do is reflect on my positive aspects. Then, I have to choose the one I like best. After that, I have to plan on what the photograph will look like. I have to pick a time and look for resources. Then I have to pick a place where I will take my picture. I have to take the resources and take my picture. Then I will evaluate my work throughout the unit.

Second Unit of Work

2008-01-16T10:15:00.000-08:00

This new project is about myself.It is called " The best part of me". First, I pick the part of myself I think is the best part of me.It doesn't have to be physical, it can be an aspect of my personality or an emotion. If the best part of you that you chose is physical, then you take a picture of it. You need to write a poem or short piece of 100-200 that describes the best part of you and why you like it. You may need to use a tripod or a self-timer to take the photograph and photo editing software to edit it. Choose portrait or landscape format. You need to make several test prints.You can write the text by hand or on the computer. You can choose if your photograph is black and white or color, and if it's 4x6 inches or 5x7 inches. Your text and photo must go on one canvas. The text and photograph should combine to communicate your idea. You will use the Design Cycle as a tool to guide you through the process of creating your final product.

Step 15 Continued

2007-11-26T09:43:00.000-08:00

My plan for my picture is the following:
I will think of how I want the superheroine to look like. I will take the picture in a place that is natural so it looks like a place that I can actually talk about the subject. I will take the picture looking calm and worried at the same time. I will take the picture with a camera from school, and I will take it back once I finish taking the picture. I will edit the picture on photoshop because I heard that it is the best program to edit photographs. I will put the features I described at first and I will make the effects look real enough for people to believe in. I will do this probably tomorrow or next class.

MYP areas of interaction and Superheroine problem

2007-11-20T10:20:00.000-08:00

This problem relates to the following areas of interaction. It relates to community and service because I am trying to make people understand and take action to help prevent the problems. It relates to approaches to learning because I am learning many new things and I am trying to teach other people about these problems. It relates to health and social education because it involves people healths and their thinking of theirselves.

Step 15

2007-11-20T10:07:00.000-08:00

I will take the picturte with the new idea I have for the costume. I will take the picture as soon as possible, if possible, next class.I will take a camera take the picture, then I will use the softwares available to make the imge better and put in all the important details.I will get these from home or from school. Most possibly from school. I decided to change my costume because I thought that what i had before was too complicated, and it would take a lot of time to get the whole wardrobe, so i thought of something I had at home, something more simple, that I could get in time, and much quicker.

Step 14

2007-11-20T09:58:00.000-08:00

I see that the strengths of my classmate's work are the following:

-They are very original and they do not make their costume too complicated.
-Their research was always related to their topic.
-Their work was accurate.
-They had an original name.
-Had a very good idea of how they were going to work the problem.
-used appropriate kanguage and the work made sense.

The weaknesses of my classmate is:

- Has to write a little more on their steps.
- Has to use more words to explain.

New Superheroine costume

2007-11-20T09:49:00.000-08:00

Pants and shirt that are red and white. The costume I described at first is too complicated. I already have an idea of what Im going to wear.

Step 13

2007-11-14T10:47:00.000-08:00

DONE

Step 12

2007-11-14T10:42:00.000-08:00

Drawings,pictures,sketches before printed: Done

Size of paper you are going to print it in:normal

Size of frame:

Color or black picture you want to edit: Done

Step 11

2007-11-12T10:41:00.000-08:00

Appropriate and original name: Healthwatcher

Story of how you turned into superheroine: Was sick of leukemia and beginnings of AIDS and they gave me an injection that had a solution that turned me into a superheroine, and gave me the superpowers.

Strengths of superpowers: Has the power of healing everyone with AIDS and leukemia with something in her belt.

Weaknesses: She is weak when she doesn't have her belt.

Enemies: Her enemies are Dr. Leukemia and Master AIDS.

Costume or Wardrobe: The wardrobe is white and red, and a cancer ribbon on her chest that overlaps with a H letter. Has a red and white belt that has all her powers in it.On the Buckle it has a letter H.

How do you hide your Superheroine personality? Pretends to be a normal person that is a journalist.

Motto: I care about your health, don't care if you have wealth.

Explanation of how and why you are going to fight the problem you chose:
I will stop Dr. Leukemia and Master AIDS from infecting more people and I am going to encourage people without the disease to collaborate.

Explanation of smart use of powers: I will use them to make sick people better and encourage others to help stop these problems.

Step 10

2007-11-12T09:54:00.000-08:00

The steps I will take to make my superheroine. First I will think of the problem, how can the superhero solve this problem, who will help her do this, how can other people help her. Next I will think of a name for the superheroine, related to the subject. I will research the problem and ways it can be solved. Next I will think of the enemies and I will create an image both for the enemy and superheroine. Next I will tell a story of how the superhero got her powers and how she fought or beat the enmy.

Step 6

2007-11-08T10:39:00.000-08:00

Appropriate and original name

Creative story of how i turned into a superhero/superheroine

Strengths or Superpowers

Weaknesses

Enemies

Costume or Wardrobe

Explanation of how do you hide your superhero personality

Motto

Logo

Explanation of how and why you are going to fight the problem you chose

Explanation of smart use of your problems

Several drawings, sketches, or drafts of your superhero/heroine

Or any other you may want to add.

Importance of superheroine problem

2007-11-08T10:32:00.000-08:00

The importance of this problem is that is affects lives of people negatively, and it takes their lives away at times. This problem is also spreading around the world so more and more people are getting it and they are dying each day. Some people don´t even know they have these sicknesses so they should be cautious. This problem is getting graver each day, fortunately we have found solutions, but that doesn´t mean people should not be careful.

Superheroine problem investigations

2007-11-06T09:55:00.000-08:00

Leukemia is type of cancer. Cancer is a group of related diseases. All cancers begin in cells, which make up blood and other tissues. Cells grow and divide from other cells as the body needs them. When cells get old, they die and new cells replace them.Sometimes this ordinary process goes wrong. Cells form when the body does not need them, and old cells don't die when they should.Leukemia begins in blood cells. In leukemia, the body produces abnormal blood cells.These are leukemia cells. At first, leukemia cells work almost normally. In time they might crowd around, blood cells,white blood cells, and platelets.

"medicine.net." medicine.net. Medicinenet. 6 Nov 2007 .

Some sources for tech project

2007-11-05T14:40:00.000-08:00

http://www.medicinenet.com/leukemia/article.htm

Leukemia is a type of cancer of the blood in which the normal cells decrease and the anormal cells increases in quantity.

World book encyclopedia(letter L)

The American Heritage English Dictionary

Cancer made by the uncontrolable growth of white blood cells.

Superheroine Problem guiding questions

2007-10-31T11:39:00.000-07:00

Here are some guiding questions that will help you understand the problem.

1)What is leukemia?
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bloodmaking organs. It happens when the white blood cells are made in big quantities.

2) What is AIDS?
AIDS is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A disease of the human immune system is caused by HIV retrovirus.

3)What are some symptoms of leukemia?
Feel tired
short of breath
Look pale
Develop a lot of infections
Pain on bones or joints
Mild fever

4) What are some symptoms of AIDS?
Sweats
fevers
swollen glands
chills
weakness
weight loss

5) What are the consequences of leukemia of the AIDS?
Some consequences of leukemia are death, certainly, but also suffering and pain throughout the sickness. taking medication that might be harmful, and also emotional problmes, because people might want to be away from you.

Superheroine Problem guiding questions

2007-10-31T11:30:00.000-07:00

These are some guiding questions that will help you understand the problem.

1) What is Leukemia?
Leukemia is a type cancer of the blood, or blood-forming organs. People with leukemia have noticeable increase in the white blood cells.

2) What is AIDS?
AIDS is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A disease of the human immune system

Superheroine Problem

2007-10-31T10:49:00.000-07:00

My superheroine problem consists against fighting leukemia and AIDS. I chose this problem because I thought it would be interesting to teach people that there are diseases that you can actually prevent and contribute to people that actually have these diseases and they die everyday because of them. I want people to know that these diseases are important to me, but mostly to people that have them.

If i were a superheroine Part 2

2007-10-29T11:41:00.000-07:00

My name is Healthwatcher.My superpowers are that I can cure any disease in the world. My arch- enemies are Dr. Leukemia and Master AIDS. I've been having problems with them for a while, and they have been taking over innocent people, and I need to make them stop. People are scared and they ask for help. I need to do this. I can't use my problems on everyone ecause more and more people are taken over by Dr. Leukemia and Master AIDS. The worst part is that these enemies kill people after they give them a hard time, just because they like to see them suffer. I make healthy people cautious of these problems, and together we work to cure this. I give scientists and doctors a bit of my powers,so they can make cures themselves, suddenly it all stops dissappearing and everyone gets better, but its not enough, not everyone is concious, so the curing is still in progress. AT the end Healthwatcher is supoosed to be the victor, but there is still more work to do.

If I were a superheroine

2007-10-29T11:34:00.000-07:00

If I were a superheroine, I would focus on grave problems of the world. I thought of the sicknesses that interest me the most. These are leukemia and AIDS. Leukemia and AIDS will be my arch- enemies, and my powers will be that I can cure any disease, but in time. There will be difficulties, like more people get sick of this everday. I want to show everyone that could be my superhero, if they collaborate and help to do this problem.