Technology

=**Technology**=

Using the following format, please add your PBL content.
 * 1) **Title:** In **BOLD**, please put the name of your project.
 * 2) **Name:** Please add your name.
 * 3) **Subject/Course:** Please provide the subject(s) covered.
 * 4) **Driving/Essential Question:** Please provide the project's essential question.
 * 5) **Objectives:** Please **bullet** 3-5 objectives of the project.
 * 6) **Planning Documents:** Using the "file" button in the tool bar above, after completing each of the items (1-5 AND 1-3), attach your planning documents to the wiki.
 * 7) **Example of Student Work:** Optional but desired. If you have a sample of student work, please add the file.


 * Reflective Questions:** For the project, please answer the following three reflective questions based on what you learned when completing the projects with your students.
 * 1) What went well with project?
 * 2) What did not go well?
 * 3) What will I change next time?


 * PLEASE LEAVE THE ABOVE FORMAT GUIDELINES AND ADD YOUR TWO PROJECTS BELOW USING THE FORMAT OUTLINED ABOVE.**

Introduction to Computer Science
 * The Second Best Western Hotel **
 * Rajiv Shaw **

Essential Questions:
 * 1) Has the student learned subject matter (in this case Visual Basic)?
 * 2) Can students program for real world problems?
 * 3) Can the problem be reduced to a simple and elegant solution? Bear in mind, long and complicated programs have more to go wrong.

Objectives

The Second Best Western Hotel has the following incentives for guests:

Room cost: $70.00 per night + 3.99 % taxes.

Over three nights earns free daily breakfast.

A five day booking earns free car rental for the weekend, regardless of whether the weekend falls within or outside the five days.

The fourth stay at the Hotel gets two days free.

Write a program for the booking clerk that will help in calculating guest payments / privileges in VB.

Make use of the visible property. Jazz up the screen shots.



Example of Student Code:

Public Class Form1

Private Sub cmdCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdCalculate.Click

txtCOST.Text = Val(txtBOX.Text) * (70) + (70 * 0.0399)

If Val(txtBOX.Text) Then Select Case Val(txtBOX.Text) Case Is > 5 txtCAR.Text = "They Get A Rental Car!!!" End Select Select Case Val(txtBOX.Text) Case Is > 4 txtDAY.Text = "They Get two Extra free days!!!" End Select Select Case Val(txtBOX.Text) Case Is > 3 End Select txtFOOD.Text = "They Get free daily Breakfast!!!" Select Case Val(txtBOX.Text) Case Is > 12 txtFIRE.Text = "Ask if they would like to try our holiday plan!" End Select End If

End Sub

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

End Sub End Class

Reflective Questions: What went well: Every student made a program that compiled and ran as needed. They discovered a wide variety in program length and content. They used the //case// method. What did not go well: Time Management. Some students were last minute coders. What will I change next time: Create more challenging term projects which do not only test a single method and math programming.

Robotics Bowled Over FTC Championship Rajiv Shaw Robotics F & G Driving Essential Question: Can we 1. Build a multitasking robot? 2. Program for both autonomous and driver mode? 3. Achieve these within the time goal? Objectives: 1. Design options generation. Pros and Cons debates. 2. Generate lists of additional parts needed. 3. Begin and evaluate core construction. 4. In parallel with #3, plan program design, code and test. 5. With two weeks to spare, ensure enough time is available for driver control practice.

Robotics 2012.docx



What went well with the project: Students were highly motivated by the prospect of competing. F and G Block were racing for completion in four weeks.

What did not go well: Students resisted after class work. Time projections were awry. Robots were only ready during the last week for practice. Code did not work consistently. Battery life was limited.

What will I change next time? I will speed up initial construction. I will ensure that code is portable. I will ensure that students delineate clear responsibilities, rather than the few doing everything.

= = =**Create a Video game Level**= Kurt Quackenbush
 * (Video Game Design)**
 * Duration:** 2 semesters
 * Grade Level:** 10-12


 * Project Idea:** Create a an original idea for a Video Game and then go through the production cycle to create a full 3d video game level. Take an original idea from concept to completion by collaborating with other students, using design skills, learning the tool set.

**Content and Skills:** Use Maya, Photoshop and other tools to make the content necessary for creation. Learn the rules and guideline for content creation using real world constraints.

 * 21st Century Skills:**
 * Critically thinking and problem solving** //Taught and Addressed and Encouraged//
 * Accessing and Analyzing information** //Taught and Encouraged//
 * Agility and Adaptability** //Encouraged and addressed//
 * Curiosity and Imagination** //Taught addressed and encouraged//


 * Culminating Products or Performances:** School presentation to student body and presentation to Jensen and Gill At the end of the year for either the individual or the group

1. Students Worked together to make a final project from an initial concept. 2. They came across the problems and differences when working on a timeline and with other and were able to adapt and create ways to overcome relevant issues. 3. They assumed the roles of a real world environment and executed those roles to create the production pipeline
 * What worked?**

1. Time was the biggest problem that students couldn't solve. 2. Most of the students left work for later and waited to the end to do their assignments. Thus they couldn't solve their immediate problems due to lack of time.
 * What didn't work**



=**Final Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver .... "Where are you at Wasatch, or where are you going?"**= Kurt Quackenbush
 * (2d Design for Adobe Suite)**
 * Duration:** 2 semesters
 * Grade Level:** 9-12


 * Project Idea:** Create a an original idea for an image/website to be presented to the class describing visually where you are now, or where you are headed in the future. Use at least one or more of the Adobe suite products to make a totally original piece of art. Use only images or sources that you can create by yourself. NO INTERNET. NO PAST PHOTOS. Take an original idea from concept to completion by collaborating with other students, using design skills, learning the tool set.

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**Driving Question:** Where are you emotionally, physically, and mentally at Wasatch? How can you express that idea through a visual medium?======

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**Content and Skills:** Use Photoshop and other tools to make the content necessary for creation. Learn the rules and guideline for content creation using real world constraints.======


 * 21st Century Skills: Critically thinking and problem solving** //Taught and Addressed and Encouraged// **Accessing and Analyzing information** //Taught and Encouraged//
 * Collaboration / Leadership** //Encouraged and Addressed// **Agility and Adaptability** //Encouraged and addressed//
 * Initiative and Entrepreneurship** Addressed and Encouraged **Curiosity and Imagination** //Taught addressed and encouraged//


 * Culminating Products or Performances:** School presentation to class and a presentation to "Jensen and Gill" at the end of the year for review by the student body.

1. Students Worked together to make a final project from an initial concept. 2. They went out to find their own pictures, sourse, and medium to produce their work. 3. They took literal examples of where they are and created images from them.
 * What worked?**

1. Students procrastinated until the end and ran into time issues with turning in completed work. 2. Some students couldn't think abstractly or connect the idea of a feeling to a picture. example: one student felt fear...what is fear? how can you show it in a picture? Is it okay to be afraid? .......Is it okay to show other people that you are afraid? Connecting those questions to an image caused some dissconnect in the minds of the students.
 * What didn't work**