Reflection

Today i am going to do my storyboard for the video.

Attitude in technology-Self Reflection

 I could make a music video to increase the attention they need so that they will have to listen to the song. I could also learn how to rap a little better so that it will sound better

My song explains the design cycle and it is more than two minutes long.

To the friends i showed the song to they liked it. What they liked about it was the creativity and the song itself. Since it actually  rhymes in some parts it is actually good. Since they already know the design cycle i cant prove that they learned it, but they actually liked it.

I did my create stage well and my investigate and plan but evaluate seems a little hard. On the create plan what I did wrong was I didnt follow my plan and it seemed a little harder but it is fine. Other than that everything was okay.

I did everything by myself. Everything but the posting of the song which Jose helped me. Jose also helped me by telling me to use survey monkey and it helped a lot. Other than that everything was fine and I did by myself.

My learning can help my community in many diferent ways for example I learned how to apply the MYP Cycle and my projects are better now. Since my project will be better my community can improve due to my projects. Also I can teach somebody else the design cycle and they can improve their projects. This results in our community being better.

A rate myself a five becase I followed all the steps of the design cycle except for a little part in create due to some lack of time. Everything I did was okay and I think I actually deserve that five if not a six.

Evaluate

As I have been saying for the past few post it is that i should improve my rapping skills and to lower down the volume of my voice.

My  song explains the design cycle and it is more than two minutes long. The students I showed the song to they liked it. What they liked about it was the creativity and the song itself. Since it actually  rhymes in some parts it is actually good. Since they already know the design cycle i cant prove that they learned it, nut they actually liked it.

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I did my create stage well and my investigate and plan but evaluate seems a little hard. On the create plan what I did wrong was I didnt follow my plan and it seemed a little harder but it is fine. Other than that everything was okay.

Yeah, I did everything by myself. Everything but the posting of the song which Jose helped me. Jose also helped me by telling me to use survey monkey and it helped a lot. Other than that everything was fine and I did by myself.

My learning can help my community in many diferent ways for example I learn the Myp Cycle and my projects are better. Since my project will be better my community can improve due to my projects. Also I can teach somebody else the design cycle and they can improve their projects. This results in our community being better.

A rate myself a five because I followed all the steps of the design cycle except for a little part in create due to some lack of time. Everything I did was okay and I think I actually deserve that five if not a six but that is taking it to extremes.

Create-Self Reflection

I didn't always follow my plan. I did do all that was in my list but I didnt follow them the way i organized them. Some reasons that I didnt follow my plan was probaly because of lack of time. Although I did finish my project I should have followed my plan to make this project more easier than it was. 

I could have learned how to rap better because on some parts you can totally tell that i dont know how to. Even though I practiced and the one I published was the better one I should have practiced a little bit more. i could have also lowered down the volume on my voice since it is a little too loud.

I will follow my plan so that when I do the project it will seem easier next time. If I am doing a rap song then I can practice how to rap better so that it sounds a little bit more professional.

Plan

This is done underneath the Plan Graph.

I chose the idea of creating a rap song to help the 6th graders learn the design cycle. Since I love music I thought it would be kind of cool to record an original song by me (even if it was school realted song it still counts).

Test my product with survey to students.The questions will be about the design cycle and there will be eight questions.  I am going to make them listen to the song and then answer the  test to see is they understood the MYP Cycle. 

I will follow the plan and try to do everything by then.

Investigate & Design Brief

I will explain to a 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. (I will need to explain to the 6th graders the design cycle and by the end of this project they should be able to identify each step of the design cycle and what is done in that step.  I need the design cycle for almost everything. For example you will need it to build a car or for to build a house.

More 6th graders will understand the design cycle and they will be more organized. They will also understand it better and might be able to get better grades on their projects.  I can teach them and explain to them the design cycle. By doing this we can helo our community advance in everything that is possible.

We are in the same school so we need to know this so that the school can be a better place. We are also might have the same goal for example we might want to make the school better.  When i teach the 6th graders the design cycle they will understand it and then they will teach other students.  They can also make more projects better because they learned the design cycle from us.

 You have to blog your information instead of putting it in paper. Also you have to research the myp cycle and all the steps. Also you have to identify the problem but not solving it yet because that step is create.

Design cycle is a procedure that helps you create your project correctly. It is used to solve problems easier. There are four steps which are investigate, plan, create and evaluate.

DESIGN BRIEF

There are four parts of the design cycle. The four parts are Investigate,Plan, Create, Design, Evaluate. You follow these steps to make the project well and for it to be correctly. The investigation part you have to research what your project will be about. For Plan you have to actually tell what you are going to do.

I am going to make a rap song explaining the design cycle to the 6th graders. It will be kind of simple and the 6th graders will get the point. I am making the rap song because for me it seems like a challenge and I like a challenge.

Design 

The limitations for this part is that I'm not using the music yet just the lyrics. Also another limitation is that I am not that much of a rapper. I dont know how to rap or find rhymes. I will reread the lyrics and I will choose the best of the three. Also I might ask an opinion from my friends. I can also add some music to see which one sounds better.

DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

It will be simple for the student to understand.

After playing the song for a few times they will understand the design cycle better.

Will be about 2-2:30 minutes long.

Test

I will give a survey and the questions will be about the design cycle. 

Also I will analyze the survey due to the amount of questions answered correctly. 

They should get about 7 or 8 questions right.

Survey

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Create Final song

Myp Song by Eblihm

Self Reflection

Today in class i still try to finish the song and i did the test the 6th graders will have to take in order to see if the song actually works. The test will be of the design cycle and will be 10 questions long. In order to pass this test the 6th graders will have to get 7 out of 10 to pass.  Today i will finish my song at home and publish it if i think it is good. I give myself a 5. Also i will first publish the song and then publish the test for Mrs. Hinojosa to see.

Self Reflection

Today I give myself a four because i couldn't create the song due to the fact that I didnt have the microphone.  However to make this time proactive I kept on working on my song. I just made sure that it rhymes and added more lyrics that rhymed and that it explained the design cycle.  I had a little trouble finding words that rhymed but i figured it out.

Plan Graph

My total minutes is 226 divided by 60 and that is about 4 hours. Now i am going to plan what im doing for the next couple of days.

     10/3 - Finish my plan and start creating

     10/4 - Go on creating the song

     10/5 - Keep on creating the song

     10/6- finish the song

      10/7 -make the test

     10/8- Make the students listen to song and take test

     10/9 -Evaluate my results

     10/10- evaluate the project

     10/11- evaluate the project

Designs

Lyrics for Choice # 1 song



Come little kids
sit on your carpet
Because some big fish 
are going to teach you something



The MYP Cycle is the easiest thing
so stop talking and listen carefully
There are four steps Isn't that neat!!
Just listen to this song with a nice little beat



First step is to investigate
This is the part where you dont hesitate
You research everything you need 
And put it on a paper for everybody to read


You Identify the problem
Dont try to solve them
cuz that step is create
and we are not there yet


The next step is to plan
So bring all of your clan
to try to make a plan
to follow for the next few days
until we finish this project


Now we are in create
Hurry up! You dont want to be late
We make the project
and try to be correct
Create create
that will be our fate


Last but not least
is this last piece
Evaluate is the last thing
were we have to think


Give yourself a grade
for all the work you have made
Be honest
Dont give yourself a better grade
if all you have done is stare at a crate


Again the Myp is easy
just dont get queasy


//First come I then comes P
Then comes C with the nice little beat
And the last step is Evaluate
Which is the last thing on your heavy plate//


Try to remeber the steps
by listening to this rap again and again
Learn the song
learn the steps
and you will be the very best





Lyrics 2
the myp is easy
only four seps
investigate plan
create and evaluate
just follow this steps and
you will learn them




 Lyrics 3
Myp isnt hard just
listen to this easy song
there are four steps
that are easy to remember
 

Audacity

Audacity is really fun to use and simple too.

    For simplicity I gave it a 5 beause it is so simple to use. Since computers isn't really my thing I am so glad that it is simple. Audacity has a manual which you can go back to if you need help. This is a great program that is easy to use and I didnt really guess that much. It didn't tke me that much time to get the hang of it.It  is an incredible program that it's really easy to use. Even some elementary kids can learn how to use it. Therefore I rate simplicity a 5 beacuse it is really simple to use.

     You put the music and you can change the pitch or the speed. For this I gave it a 4 because it is a good nut sometimes I get confused and I don't know what to do. For example I was putting in a song and when I was going to do that again it didn't let me. I was confused and I had to do a lot of guessing before I got the hang of it. The music is simply but it just needed to be explained better. Therefore I rate music a 4.

    For the price I gave it a 5 because it was free and that is the thing I'm really strict about it. I don't want to buy something that I'm only going to use one time. So it was free therefore I gave it a 5. It is actually an easy five to get beacause all it had to be was free. This is an easy five so if it was free I gave it a 5. I gave it a 5 just because i was free.

     For entertainment I gave it a 5 because using Audacity is really fun and kind of easy to use. I actually think that using Audacity is really entertaining and a lot of work to do. It's kind of cool to fool around saying wahtever on the microphone, but since we are going to start working soon I won't fool around with it. I gave this a 5 because this is entertaining.

Wavosaur

Wavosaur is one of the options that I saw that it was useful. Also I  read the description and it sounded pretty convincing and easy to use. 

      For Simplicity I rated it a 4. The reason I gave it a 4 was that it was simple, but it kind of confused me too. Since I'm not that good in technology I thought at first that it will be okay but I still needed to check Audacity. I actually need help on this kind of project and I wouldn't want to bother someone helping me. Also for wavosaur  I did't know how to use it a lot I had to guess most of the time, but at the end I kind of got the hang of it. Still I don't want to guess on this whole project, so I will probably have second thoughts if I use this.  Still it's a great resource except that I don't really understand it. That it's why I gave it a 4.

            This is a easy 5 because I was going to evaluate based on if it was free or if you had to buy it. For the price I gave it a 5 because it is free and I wouldn't want to buy something that I might use for one project only. I rated it a 5 because it was free and free is good because you don't pay for it. Some other programs gave you a free trial, but then you have to buy it later. I will probably need these programs for about two months or more depending if I finish it earlier . I gave it a 5 because it is free. It's as simply as that.

      So for the music you choose it and edit it or do whatever you want with them. I gave it a 3 because it's supposed to be simply, but since I'm not that good with computer I had a little more trouble understanding it.  I didn't know how to use it so again I had to guess. I don't like guessing because your not really sure on what you are doing. I want to do good on this project and I won't guess on it. I will probably not use this because  I don't understand it well. I gave it a 3 due to all the amount of guessing I had to do. This criteria actually ruined and damaged my view of this program.

     For entertainment I gave it a 4 because it is entertaining and fun to do except I don't know how to use it. Again if I'm guessing the 6th grader will probably not learn anything due to all the guessing I did. If I don't know what I'm doing neither will the 6th grader. This program is entertaining to use and fun to experiment that is why I gave it a 5.

SELF REFLECTION

Today I decided I am going to make a rap song and the two tools I found that are useful are Audacity and Wavosaur.  Both are really useful tools and can really help me record the song. I still need to research both to find out what more they can do. I think that I might use Audacity because when I was browsing the webpages I saw that it looked more simply than Wavosaur. I saw that both were free.Also you could use it on a PC and a Mac so I can use it here and I can use it home. Knowing that I know that I wont have an excuse for not doing my work.  I haven't actually tested the out, so I don't know their capacity.
          At home I will try to make a sample so that I can actually decide what to use. I will probably use Audacity because Im not really good at this and from what I saw Audacity is much more simply than Wavosaur.

DESIGN FOLDER -INVESTIGATION

Area of Interaction: Community and Service , Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Significant Concept: Design Cycle can be used to solve problems

Unit Question: How can my learning help my community? How do I make Sound Choices?

I will explain to a 6^th grader what the design cycle is all about by creating a presentation. 

Since you need the design cycle for almost everything. For example you will need it to build a car. More 6th graders will understand the design cycle and they will be more organized.

I can teach them and explain to them the design cycle.

 We are in the same school so we need to know this so that the school can be a better place.

When i teach the 6th graders the design cycle they will understand it and then they will teach other students. I will blog & post my information instead of putting it in paper.  Design cycle is a procedure that helps you create your project correctly.

There are four parts of the design cycle. The four parts are Investigate,Plan, Create, Design, Evaluate. You follow these steps to make the project well and for it to be correctly. The investigation part you have to research what your project will be about. For Plan you have to actually tell what you are going to do.

I am going to make a rap song explaining the design cycle to the 6th graders. It will be kind of simple and they will get the point.

 The requirements for this assignment is to make three designs and choose the best one.

 The limitations for this part is that I'm not using the music yet just the lyrics.

I will reread the lyrics and I will choose the best of the three. Also I might ask an opinion from my friends. I can also add some music to see which one sounds better.

DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

It will be simple for the student to understand.

After playing the song for a few times they will understand the design cycle better.

Will be about 2-2:30 minutes long.

Test

I will give a survey and the questions will be about the design cycle. 

Also I will analyze the survey due to the amount of questions answered correctly. 

They should get about 7 or 8 questions right.