Design project-day 3

TO DO-Day 3

Open a new blog post. Title it "Design project-day 3". Label it "Technology Topics" AND "Technology Skills"

CHOOSE phase (15 minutes)

1. Review your description of your user from DEFINE phase (day 1) and what makes a game fun

WE though that what made a game fun would be moving, that it looks nice and that you can play it with your friends we also liked if the game had music and maybe some prizes.

-Do these descriptions match your game...why or why not? (on blog)

What makes it fun is that a lot of people can play and it a game in which you move around a lot and can play with all your friends and its a mosca style game. Also its challenging since it has obstacles and you have to be quick.

2. What are the most powerful ideas in your model that you want to keep? (on blog)

We would like to keep the mosca style game with obstacles because it is challenging yet entertaining.

3. What are the things you can leave off to simplify the game? (on blog)

We decided to leave off type holes in the middle because it made the game a bit unconventional and really difficult. SO instead we changed them for little players that will block the ball.

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)

-Find a very large piece of carboard 

-Make legs and make it like a sort of table legs with soda bottles

-Msake the paddles 

-Make the small players as obstacles

-Each bring a ball it has to be light like a ping pong ball.

-Make the goals 

-The game to be fun and entertaining and hopefully won't break or anything.

2. What supplies do you need besides cardboard, tape, scissors? Who will bring those? (on blog)

We need ping pong type balls and we need colors like paint and stuff to make them attractive

Design project-day 2

  Decide which model has the most strengths (on blog)

Both Sofia's and my model are very good because they were strangely very similar because they were both easy to use and play and simple.

    Decide on the details from the other models that you will include (on blog)

-Will have a gap in the parts of the game that are considered out.

-It will be a 4 player game 

-Both will include two different soccer teams 

-Will have obstacles

-Make the game mosca style

    -Decide what might need to be added or taken away from the model in #1 (on blog)

I have to take away some of the obstcles as it weould be almost impossible to win and also adding the gap that acts like an out of bounds space for the game.

Also need to add some more decoration to make the game look cooler so more people will want to play it.Make the game like a mosca style game so we need to put clear instructions

. Write down feedback (on blog) that you get from classmates

    -What was good

That the mosca style was very creative and it wiill be entertaining for middle schoolers. Also that it is really cool because we can play it with a large group of people and it is competetive. 

The idea is new and its a very fun game also you can play it with a big group of people

    -What should you consider changing?

They told us that we needed to make sure that it was big enough for a lot of people could play and it wouldn't be uncomfortable. Also make sure it is sturdy enough since it is a contact game

Picture of my design 2

Design project-day 1

Juliana Laborde, Alejandro Garcia, Sofia Cuellar

1. Decide who you will make the game for (primary, elementary, middle school or high school), boys/girls/both

For middle school, and coed.

2. Decide on what difficulty level the game will be.

The game will be medium, difficult enough to be entertaining, but not so much that people will get frustrated.

3. Brainstorm ideas about what makes a game fun or successful (at least 5...should be more)

-Game should/can have music

- Be entertaining in difficulty

-Easy to understand

-Straightfoward

-Something you can compete with  people 

-Being able to play with friends

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7x-F5irBY- This is another game at Caine's arcade I though it was fun because it was difficult but, it was still sort of easy and it had good prizes. Give people more oppourtunities because it's a pretty difficult game!

2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cEWELoxEsY-This is a new game for Caine's arcade and it look really interesting because it's difficult but, you can switch out the boards to make it easier or harder. I would imoprove how this one looks to make it look a little more appealing.

3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byNLUrohbjE I liked this one because I though it was creative but, I don't think iut =s that cool for the audience that I'm targeting. Maybe make it with more steps or just something a little more entertaining.

2. Brainstorm ideas for your game (make sure to keep in mind your target group and what you think makes a game fun)

-Labyrinth we liked this none because we thought it was complex and entertaining

-Ball toss on a board, its a classic everybody likes it

-Shazam

-Music, ball toss.

-relay race type game

-Soccer game 

-Fuzbol 

-Airhockey-labyrinth

3. Choose an idea and lists all the things about this idea that makes it fun/good for the group who will play it.
Road kill air soccer with obstacles, made out of carboard this will be really fun because it is a new take on air hockey and people have teams and win prizes.

4. Make a list of things that you think could go wrong with your idea and how you can avoid those

-Soccer players could break, so we will make them sturdy out of hard carboard

-People might think nit's too complicated, so we'll make clear instructions on the game so people will know how to play.

 -People may cheat, we can put penalties for cheating like loosing all your points.

Colombia Project

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Tech Tool Evaluation

Present. Me
3 things I like
-It's very easy to use
-You can import it to many things including Powerpoint, Exel, Word, Google Docs, and they convert automatically
-I can use it on my cellphone and view it on my phone
-It can be published as private
-New and different
3 things I don't like
-I don't like that I have to sign up or make an account
-I don't like that I have to pay after 3 months of using it
-I don't like that it takes a while to load
2 ways I could use it
-I think I could use this as a video blog by expressing my ideas and being able to put slides and things like that.
-I could also use it to present another idea like in our science fiction project that we did last year in English class.
Mentimeter
3 things I like
-I think its an awesome and creative idea
-I like that it is in your mobile phone
-I like that you can specify who recieves it and who votes
3 things I don't like
-You can't customize it
-We should be able to add pictures or graphs in the questions
-There could be questions people can vote for that are public
2 ways I could use it
I could use it when taking important decisions either at work or at school, that way everybody has an equal vote and opinion.
-I could also use it in a presentation to make it more interesting and more intruiging

Biometric security

What I know about Biometric security

I don't know anything about biometric security but, I can imagine it has something to do with security.

-What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching (at least 2)

1. 1.I wonder what biometric means or does and why it its important.
2. 2.I also wonder what it is used for

-Links to where you found the most useful information (at least 2, NOT Wikipedia, although you can use it to help you)

1. This website I found very helpful because it explained what biometric security is
2. This website was extremely helpful because not only did it explain in depth it also gave me example of all the types of biometric security systems there are and what they are used for.

-Bullet list of things you learned about the topic (at least 5)

1. -"Security personnel look for biometric data that does not change over the course of your life; that is, they look for physical characteristics that stay constant and that are difficult to fake or change on purpose."http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/technology-article.asp?artnum=10 
2. -Biometric security systems look for things that don't change or that are difficult to change everybody changes overtime hair color, height,weight etc.
3. -It is used to measure physical characteristics of a person on an "automated" buisness.
4. I learned that there are many different types of biometric systems, here is what the website said abourt them 
5. "Face Recognition biometrics security - This is one of the most flexible methods as it can be done without the person being aware that they are being scanned.  This system analyzes specific features that everyone’s face has like the distance between the eyes, width of the nose, position of cheekbones, jaw line and chin to only name a few.
• Fingerprint Identification - Your fingerprints remain the same throughout your life and no two fingerprints are alike.  This may not work in industrial applications as this requires clean hands and some people may have injury to their prints that prevent proper identification.
• Hand Geometry biometrics security - This will work in harsh environments, does not require clean conditions and uses a small dataset.  It is not considered as intrusive and is often used in industrial environments.
• Retina Scan - There is just no known way to replicate a retina and, as far as is known, the pattern of the blood vessels at the back of the eye is totally unique and never changes.  The downside is that it takes about 15 seconds of careful concentration to do a good scan but this still remains a standard one in military and government installations.
• Iris Scan - This is also very difficult to duplicate and stays the same for your lifetime although it may be difficult for children or the infirm.

• Signature biometrics security - This type of security is easy to gather and is not physically intrusive.
• Voice Analysis - This method of security biometric can be accomplished without the person’s knowledge although it is easier to fake by using a tape recording but it cannot be done by trying to imitate another person’s voice." http://www.findbiometrics.com/biometrics-security
6. I thought it was interesting that there were many ethical concerns about biometric security because people found it intrusive and other reasons.

-A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life

Everyday to enter the shcool or to get off the buses we have our fingerprints scanned and that is a type of biometric security. Also at our parent's office we also have that security system, I use biometric security systems everyday without even realizing it!

-Questions you still have (at least 1)

What other methods or type of biometric security are still being invented?

Who would have access to our information?