Sunday, November 30, 2008

investigate


guiding question-how can you communicate through internet when disaster strikes
You can communicate from different countries on messengers such as Msn skype Icq and aim also there are many more that can be used firstly you make an account for the messenger then you add your friends and then you just go and call your friends or you can type also if you have a webcam you can see each other through the internet this is new technology and they are developing more and more

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Grade 7 IT investigation

MYP DESIGN CYCLE

The MYP design cycle has four parts Investigate,plan,create and evaluate.Investigate iswhen you research about the thing you are doing. Plan is when you plan on how you are going to do it.
create is making the things you investigate and evaluate what you did and what your results were.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Evaluation

EvaluationIn our project the wikispaces worked well also the creating part, we used wikispaces and blogs to record out information-investigate, What we are goin to do and find out things about it-design/plan, Design your robot and what it is going to do-Create, Create your robot with lego mindstorms-Evaluate, Everything that you did in recorded information , what worked, how can it be improved etc.-Reflection, How to improveOur robot can be improved by the programming and aslo when we were searching for information. Our design and plan went well also the create stage there was no mistakes.We used the Wikispaces and the blogs for recording the investigation stage, design/plan,create,evaluation and reflection. We didnt make an Animoto because we were not told to make one.The robot rules are
1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.bot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
3.A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.We used winlogo to get a feeling how the robot worked, forward X,backwards X,right Y, left YWe created Robolab and we made the program for the robot and then we uploaded it and connected the towers then automaticly the program connects to the robot The robot has
1.sensors
2.actuators
3.power
4.procceser
5.control commands
What worked well?
in our project our robot was good it was not hard to build and connecting to the tower to the robot was easy also.