September 28

1. 15 minutes of typing

2. Now, let's take 20 minutes to finish our Investigation from Friday. . .

What is a Design Specification?
Let's think about the poster that we want to create and write some Design Specifications:
The poster must:
-include all 5 steps of the design cycle
-be colourful
-be kid-friendly

How can we test our product? One way would be to create a questionnaire
Generate (make) tool for evaluating product (poster)- let's talk about this, then include the answer on your Investigation.

3. Now onto the design

You are to make 3 possible designs that meet the design specification and evaluate each against the design specification. Next, you are to choose one and evaluate this in detail against the design specification.

Open Word 2007
Click on the Insert tab
Look at the Illustrations group
Find Smart Art and click on that

Please explore Smart Art and create 2 designs.
Name them Design 1, and Design 2.
Evaluate both against the design specification. (*Example: Design 1 meets the design specification.)

Then choose 1 of the designs and fully evaluate it against the design specification. This means that you must explain;-)

September 25

Investigate!

Year 7 - it's Friday already! Wow! Another week has flown by. Before you leave for the weekend, let's get some IT work done.

1. Take a quick minute and participate in the poll on the class blog,

2. Practice typing for 15 minutes (freetypinggame.net),

3. Open your Word document entitled "Design Cycle". You have your Identify the Problem paragraph finished. Please show it to me.

4. We started the Develop a Design Brief and your task was to answer the following questions:

-What is the Design Cycle?

-How many stages does the MYP Design Cycle consist of? Name them.

-What Microsoft Office programs can I use to create a poster showing the MYP Design Cycle?

5. Now let's begin the Formulate a Design Specification. This is the part of the project where we describe conditions, requirements and restrictions. For this project I will give you the Design Specification. The poster must: include all 5 steps, be kid-friendly, and colourful.

6. Let's create a test to evaluate your product against the design specification.

Learning objectives: Students will finish research. Students will create a test(questionnaire) to evaluate their product.

September 21

International Day of Peace - September 21
Have a peaceful day Year 7

Year 7, we have begun to document our learning.

There are 3 tasks to do in the Investigate: Identify the Problem, Develop a Design Brief, and Formulate a Design Specification.

1. Practice typing for 15 minutes;-)
2. Open the Word document (called Design Cycle) we started on Friday.
3. Show me the 2 sentences you have written.
4. Now, you will be organized into groups and work together to complete the Identify the Problem paragraph (following the template).

Next, we will begin to work on Task 2 - Develop a Design Brief.

5. Please do a keyword search on Google to answer the following questions:

• What is the Design Cycle?
• How many stages does the MYP Design Cycle consist of? Name them.
• What Microsoft Office programs can I use to create a poster of showing the MYP Design Cycle?

Learning objectives: Students will restate unit problem and say how this problem will be solved. Students will relate this to an area of interaction. Student will define the design cycle and identify stages. Student will research Microsoft Office for a program which will allow them to create a poster.

September 18

Year 7 - Today we will begin our project.

1) Let's look at the structure of the documentation process. Remember that this is a scholastic document (a formal school project) and should conform to certain standards. That means that is a school project that you must hand in and you will be graded upon this work so it has to look professional;-)

We will type in font size 12. We will type in black. We will use a formal font (Times New Roman, Calibri, Ariel).

Let's look at the template for the Investigate that will make this process easier for us: Click Here

Sept 14

Good Morning Year 7

First, let's start the day with a little typing lesson. Click here to visit Free Typing Games. This site offers free lessons and games. To become a really proficient (fast and accurate) typist, you should do a combination of both lessons and games. Lessons help because they show you where you should place your hands on the keyboard and give practice with specific letter combinations. Lessons help typing become automatic. Games are fun and help you build speed!

Next, let's take a look at the 5 steps of the MYP Design Cycle. It's really important to understand how it works.

Finally, let's begin the investigation

September 11

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Welcome to Technology Year 7! You are now in the Senior School - Hooray!

We have lots to do in the next couple of weeks so let's get started.

1. We will view the introduction to Technology 2009/10
2. We will log onto computers and change password
3. We will organize folders
4. We will log onto class blog (http://year7it.blogspot.com) and become acquainted with the information located in the sidebar.
5. We will look at the Design Cycle Unit of Work

Learning objective: Settle in and gain an understanding of expectations of the term.