Design Day 5

LEARN PHASE

 -What was the biggest problem you encountered? How did you solve it?

The biggest problem we had was the day we built the game. It was hard and we didn't know how to work with dicks and water and cardboard. It was hard at first but we managed to create the "tank" with cardboard and decorate the outside with colored paper. After that everything else was easier.

 -When did you get your biggest "AH HA" idea? What was it? 

It was when we came up with the whole idea of what the game would be. Like it was actually a great idea and on top of everything it was educational so that made it a great game. 

-Who in your group resisted new ideas the most and why? 

Daniela was the one that resisted new ideas because she wanted to make a circular tank and we were making a squared one. So in the end we ended up making it rectangular so that we could all agree.

-What doubts did YOU have about the project and how did you overcome those doubts? 

Most of my doubts had to do with the water and cardboard. Because that clearly isn't a good mix. In the end we just decided to use a blue plastic cover on the box to make it look like water and our problem was over.

-Who in your group played "devil's advocate" (a person who questions everything, even good ideas) and how did that help the process? 

I guess this was me haha. I always doubt good ideas, even mine. During the process I was always rethinking everything because I wanted no mistakes to be made. In the end I guess this encouraged everyone to try a little harder and make the best effort they could.

-What did you learn about yourself, teamwork, and the design process? 

About myself  I learned that I can work fast and efficiently in a short amount of time, I can achieve my goals and work in a group. About teamwork I learned that it can be tricky sometimes but you just have to be a little more open-minded to succeed. And the design process, well about this I learned that it never turns out how you expected but it can always be great.

Social Service Experiences

Monday, February 25th, 2013:

The first day I woke up early in the morning to get to school. I thought it would be a regular day, but it was the opposite of that. I got to Mr. Starks classroom and we waited for the rest of the group to get there before we got on the bus to go to "Fundacion Santa Rita." We had a bus ride that was about twenty minutes long and we got to a little white gate that was in front of a small brick building. We went inside and there we met the coordinator. She told us we would start with an activity that would help relax the kids. They took us to a colorful room where there was a ball pit, swings, and mattresses all over the floor. We waited there for the kids to arrive and one by one. When they were all there, we were given a box with different objects with different textures. We had to rub the textures all over their arms and legs. At first, I thought this was kind of useless, but suddenly the kid who I was massaging and at first was curled up in a ball, started to relax his muscles. I was impressed. We worked on this for about two hours. It was tiring but worth it. Next, we were taken to the Laundry Room. Here we helped to fold clothes and blankets. This took a lot of time since the clothes were so small and there was so much of it so by the time we were done an hour later, it was already 10:30 am. After this activity we switched to a task were we had to type into a computer some paperwork volunteers of the foundation had filled. Like their name, id, why they wanted to work there etc. We did this for about an hour also. When we were done, we went down a flight of stairs to meet up with the other group that was in the folding station. We told them to come to a little couch that was near the entrance and we ate a little snack. After this, it was time to go, so we gathered our trash and took the bus back to school. When I arrived to my house, I just thought, I was kind of still in shock. The kids at this foundation had a lot of mental and physical problems and it made me reflect on my life.It made me realize how lucky I was to be able to sit up, sit down, walk or even smile. I am lucky because I can move around. This is a privilege not everyone has. 

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

 On Tuesday we got to the foundation at about 8am. When we got there a woman cam up to us and asked us if we could help with the decorations of the kids rooms. She gave us about ten boxes  with different flash cards and games. We had to glue thick pieces of cardboard behind every piece of every game she gave us. The woman explained to us that this was because if they were so thin, the kids wouldn't be able to grab them. I started out by gluing the cardboard to some flash cards that showed different emotions. Then me and my friends put together about five different puzzles that were like 200 pieces each and we glued them to a cardboard too. These would be used as decorative posters for the kids rooms. This was a very important job because they would lighten up the kids rooms. We spent till about 11am working on this job. After this a woman asked us if we could help to make all the cribs. There were about 20 of them per room. We had to make the bed plus add four blankets to each one because the night was so cold there. Then she told us that they had to make the beds and change the sheets everyday. After making all of the beds/cribs, it was already about 12pm so we had to leave. Tuesday was a good day. 

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

On Wednesday, the day started out like Monday and Tuesday. We left school at 7:30 on the bus, got there at 8:00 etc. We got to the foundation and this lady came over to us and gave us a long piece of cardboard and many folders. She asked us to decorate all of these folders. She gave us a list of all the names so we added that in the folders too. We had to be very creative. Also, in the piece of cardboard we had to do a curriculum for the year of 2013, like a calendar. We were going to put our best effort so that this would mean a lot to the kids. We did the big calendar and about 20 folders in about two hours. We then folded clothes in turns for about twenty minutes. We saw the park and we noticed that it was in deplorable conditions. It was dirty and not even put together. We had a new plan, to clean the park. We went to the laundry room and got two buckets. One of soap and water and one of clean water.We managed to clean a whole piece of it in about two hours. After this, we were exhausted so we put everything back in its place and sat down for the last ten minutes we had. A woman came up to us and told us that if we didn't want to work with the kids that we had to leave.  This really made me sad and a little angry because I felt our work was not appreciated. We had been working really hard! They didn't even say thank you... 

Thursday, Febuary 28th, 2013

I was ready to go to the foundation as I entered the class room. I waited and waited but we didn't leave. I was very confused... Mr. Paez came over to us and told us that we weren't going to the foundation today. I was startled ad I didn't understand why. So we reflected  for two hours on everything we had done for the past 3 days to see what we had done wrong. I just couldn't see it. After this we came to an agreement that we would make posters for the foundation here in school. We gathered up a ton of art materials and started to work. We did this until the end of the day and I felt like I wasn't being productive.

Friday, March 1st, 2013

I got to school at 7:00, the same time as the days before. We went over to the social service coordinator and she told us that every Saturday, classes are held in school. These classes are for people that are 17 years or older. They are free and they get 5 hours of school on Saturday so they can validate primary. She showed us the booklets that they used as textbooks and explained to us that the booklets had big tests but not little quizzes of each unit so we had to do that on Friday. We had to pick a subject that we liked so we could do the quiz. I took 3 booklets of biology and for each unit I did a quiz. I had to read the booklet firs so that I could do the quiz which was a long process. But I managed to do it and at the end of the day I had 10 different quizzes on 3 booklets! Friday was very productive. 

Design Project-Day 3

TO DO-Day 3

Choose Phase: 
1. Review your description of your user from DEFINE phase (day 1) and what makes a game fun for that group.
We said the game would be fun for Primary Girls because:

"-It is a mini pond that has fake plastic fish in it with hoops in the top. The fishing pole will be a stick with a small paper clip that fishes the hooks. Then if they fish something, it will have an addition problem and if they solve it they get a prize (we don't know what the prices will be yet.)
-Colorful
-We will make it girly.
-Fun to play.
-Has a prize."


-Do these descriptions match your game...why or why not?
-Our game is very colorful! We have many different colors of ducks and we will decorate the game so it is very pleasant to look at.
-It will be girl because of all the decorations and extra pictures we will add to it.
-It is fun to play (at least I think it is.) This is because its not so repetitive since the mathematical problems in the bottom of the duck are different each time.
-It  does have a prize, it's candy. Candy is a something everyone likes so there will be no complications with that.

2. What are the most powerful ideas in your model that you want to keep?
-The math, we don't want the game only to be fun, but educational too.
-The ducks are what makes the game so that we are keeping.
-The  prizes.

3. What are the things you can leave off to simplify the game? 
-Before were going to do the game out of cardboard and tape but that is illogical because the water will destroy the cardboard so we are using plastic instead.

IMPLEMENT phase (10 minutes) Make a build plan 
1. What needs to be done to make the model, step by step, who will do each? (on blog) 
-Put the cardboard around the plastic tub so that the decorating part is done.
-Put holes in the ducks head so that we can fit the paper clips in.
-Put the paper clips on the duck that act like the "hooks."
-Add paperclips to the end of the fishing poles so that they can hook them unto the duck and catch it.
-Add the mathematical part to the ducks heads.
-Put sand in the bottom of the tub
-Put the ducks in the tub
-Add the decorations that make it look like and "aquarium."
-Verify that all the clips work and that there is malfunctioning ones.
-Done :)

2. What supplies do you need besides cardboard, tape, scissors? Who will bring those? 
Camila:
-Sand
-Plastic Tub
-Fishing Poles

Beatriz:
-Paper clips
-Plastic ducks

Daniela:
-Cardboard
-Aquarium decorations
-Art supplies

Luciana:
-All of the different types of candy

Design Project-Day 2

-Decide which model has the most strengths 
The group decided that the drawing  I did was the most accurate because it has the best information and it is very clear to understand what the game is about.

 -Decide on the details from the other models that you will include:
-A special key to show what materials are needed to build the game.
-Include something that says that there needs to be a lot of tape inside of the cardboard or it will over-flow.
-Decide on the name of the game.
-The shape needs to be squared so that it is  easier to make.

 -Decide what might need to be added or taken away from the model in #1:
-Smaller ducks.
-Name/title.
-Square shape.

Mini Model of the Game: 

Feedback of the game:
Good:
-Ducks are fun!
-It is educational.
-Realistic.
-Good concept.

Things that could improve:
-The structure so the water doesn't spill.
-Add levels of difficulty.

Design Project-Day 1

Everyone in the group:
Camila Preciado
Beatriz Peña
Daniela Cepeda
Luciana Cataldo

1.Decide who you will make the game for (primary, elementary, middle school or high school), boys/girls/both
- Primary Girls
2. Decide on what difficulty level the game will be.
-Easy, since the girls are small. The game will be primary level.
3. Brainstorm ideas about what makes a game fun or successful (at least 5...should be more)
-That the game has a winner.
-Rules, because then the game would be a disaster.
-Not boring. (ex: colorful)
-Easy to understand.\
-That the winner gets a prize in the end so you get motivated to play.

Reasearching:
- Put the LINK to each on your blog
 -and for EACH tell what you thought was good/fun about the game
 -and what you think can be improved.


1.First Video link HERE.  THIS link was something I saw while doing the research, sooooo cool.
2.I thought this game was so fun because it it very creative and something I had never seen before. It makes me want to play it and that is a quality a game should have. This idea was so interensing and they way they actually built the different birds and everything. You can see that even the parents were having fun and that is something very important in a game... that it is all ages.
3.Something that can be improved is the making the birds a little bit lighter so they would fly farther because the guy had a lot of failed tries.

1.Second link HERE
2. This would be game that Primamy school students would want to play, its very easy to do and kids would enjoy it very much. I loved this game when I was little.
3. Something about the game that he could improve is the size, if the carboard is bigger then there is a berrer chance of the beanbag going through thr hoop.

Third link Here
2. This is not only a fun game, it is also an educational one. This game would be fun to do with the samll kids because they play and learn at the same time. It is easy to do and everything. It is everythig that you want in a game.
3. Something that he can make better is also making it bigger. I like all arcade games in a laarge scale because everything is more fun if it is something new or very big that you have never seen before.

Ideation Phase:
1. Brainstorm ideas for your game (make sure to keep in mind your target group and what you think makes a game fun)
-Mathematical Pond
- Miniature Basket ball
-Mini beanbag launching
2. Choose an idea and lists all the things about this idea that makes it fun/good for the group who will play it.
-Mathematical pond:
This is a very good idea because:
-It is a mini pond that has fake plastic fish in it with hoops in the top. The fishing pole will be a stick with a small paper clip that fishes the hooks. Then if they fish something, it will have an addition problem and if they solve it they get a prize (we don't know what the prices will be yet.)
-Colorful
-We will make it girly.
-Fun to play.
-Has a prize

3. Make a list of things that you think could go wrong with your idea and how you can avoid those
-The game could fall apart so we need to make it carefuly.
-The game could be dull, so we need to add more ideas to it.
-The game could spill, so we need to put a lot of tape inside so it does not leak.

What the game will look like:

Virtual Field Trip

-Choose a place I have visited and enjoyed: 
Cartagena

Instuctions of the day: 
-Find 10 photos of intresting thing to do or see in that location:
-With each photo include a 3-4 sentence description:
-The photos and descriptions should be loaded on a web 2.0 tool.
-Put the link to the presentation on your blog and email it to Ms.Shawn.

MURAL ON CARTAGENA. 

Link to Final Presentation

Link to Final Presentation HERE.