Stykz+Tech+3

STYKZ TECH 3

Area of Interaction: Environments Significant Concept: Design Cycle Skills, Basic animation skills, Systems Unit Question: How can the virtual environment be used to tell a stor y about our environments?

Day 1: Take the Test on [|Skyward].

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) __Identify the Problem __ 1. What is the problem you need to solve? We need to make a story using Stykz.  2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? It can be used when you get a job on the project you work on.  3. What are virtual environments? Environments that aren't real, often on a computer. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 4. How have virtual environments changed our society? Computers have made things easier and faster. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 5. Explain the different environments that you live in: I live in many different environments. These are my School, Home, and church. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 6. How can the virtual environment be used to tell a story about our environments? We can use it to display a real environment that actually exists. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 7. What is Stykz? Stykz is an animation software program that allows you to make stories with stick figures. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Below are the requirements for this assignment:
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Create a Stykz animation.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It should be at least 30 seconds.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You need to create a story about our environment.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Your story needs to have a plot that I can understand.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I do not want your story to be gross, demented, or violent. That makes me sad, which will make your grade sad.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is due March 15 at the end of class.

__<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Design Brief __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">8. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it for. I am going to make a movie of stick people for Ms. Bradfield because it is an assignment for her class. __<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Formulate a Design Specification __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">9. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? I can't make it exactly perfect like other animations. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 10. How will you "test" your project? I will watch it as a movie.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">PLAN: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">11. What are your ideas for Stykz? I am going to have a venus fly trap eat a person, or a person being zapped by lightning. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 12. What idea did you choose for Stykz and why did you choose it? I chose the venus fly trap because it will be cool as an animation. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 13. Type a brief explanation of your final plot below: I will have a guy picking flowers, then the fly trap will eat him. The moral of the story is not pick wild flowers, they can be dangerous. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 14. Do your ideas meet all of the requirements? Yes, it is a video, so it will. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 15. Explain how you will use your time to get your projects finished by the end of the day March 15.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">March 7: Wikispace questions
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">March 8: Work
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> March 9: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Work
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> March 10: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Work
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> March 11: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Work
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> March 14: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Work
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">March 15: Finish Design Folder (this wikispace) and Stykz assignment due.

**__Comments:__ (By: Eric)**
My project sort of got deleted on the first day, so I had to start over because there were a lot of errors. That was sort of the reason I don't have more time on my thing.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This is How You Will Be Graded: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Investigate: +15 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Plan: +15 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Create: +10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Attitude: +10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Creating a Quality Stykz Story: +50 (Remember, I don't want gross!)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">TOTAL = 100

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