My Grade 7 IT Blog

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Creating Anti-Bullying games


I am now creating an anti-bullying game. This is harder than expected because it shouldn't be violent to set an example, we need to make the game with animated figures and we don't have a program to make the games. We have found a website where we can make games but those games are too violent. The only good thing is that the website allows you to make the game. THe rest is not useful.

I haven't found any other site that allows you to make the game so we might have to stick to that one. We were actually going to make a Super Mario kind of game but we can't because there is no software to create it. It's kind of complicated.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Investigation on Bullying Campaign

We have a two websites to compare and analyze them:

Both of them are about bullying but they have a different audience. While the first is more for smaller kids (KG), the second is for older kids (Grade 4/5). You can see that from the games. 1 has very childish games (connect dots) while 2 has games for older people.

I think that both of them are good just that they are both not designed for my age group. But if I were it would probably be good for me.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Bullying

We have now started a new topic called Bullying. We will have to research on bullying, make a website, wiki or blog and maybe even make a game.

Bullying comes in 3 different kinds. There is physical bullying which is shoving and hitting other people, verbal bullying, which is insulting others and there is cyber bullying, which is insulting people online. Bullying can lead to many bad things. Sometimes, a victim of bullying commits suicide because he or she so sad. The best way to not be bullied is to just walk away from the bully or tell a teacher or parent.

Bullies often have problems at home and are trying to either find friends or get rid of the anger.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Final Evaluation

In this unit we created a website about natural disasters. I liked this project because it was very easy to create the website and we had a lot of freedom to create the website. I think my site has been successful. Everything works and it looks good. The working on each stage of the design cycle was easy and successful.

The investigation was very simple. We got a natural disaster was assigned and we did research on it. It was very easy and straight forward.

The design stage was very short. We got a piece of paper and drew our design. The design of my website has changed from its original design but I think it has improved.

The plan stage was not really present. We basically got on our computers and started working. I did some planning in my head but that was it.

Create was the funnest stage. It was a lot of fun to design and do everything. We got so much freedom and that was very good.

The technology we used was new to me but it was very easy to use.