Wednesday, March 18, 2009

To do the Survey go to: Bully Games Survey

or you can comment for more details such as suggestions or questions about how the game consteucted or whatever other questions

Final Evaluation

Well unfortunately as I said before the T-MAN character couldn't be completed because i cant publish it as the policy says, beside i need to be over 25 and i should have a program that do the job. We at first we planned to make a teacher a hero that stops the bullies, we had all the details and information we needed and then we switched to sploder which worked fine. Although T-MAN failed, i still animated it fully and at the same time i worked on my bully game and the creating was perfectly fine. I tried my best to make the game simple and out of Violent and i also fully animated it, made it colorful and interesting, not too easy too.


I could improve the game by making it more like a school, but i tried and it was flat and boring, so i made it out of imagination. I would make it a bit more complicated and harder to finish so it gets more challenge. The time plan was completed at the right time, so technically i have no problem.


It was easy and simple to do, so i would say that i had no problems doing the project. yet i have no feedback yet so, i have no idea. On me, i learned that bullying doesn't lead to you to anywhere. on others i didn't really get any feedback so im not sure. It effects positivity on them, it shoes how we should not bully and we will end up alone in a dark place.

On week 1: we spent half of the week planing and the other searching a way or program to do it.

On week 2: we stayed on searching and I started working on my CS4. and we found sketch star.

On week 3: i almost finished T-MAN but i couldn't publish it so we started searching again.

On week 4: we stopped working on sketch star, but i stayed working on my T-MAN and we found sploder so we started doing sketches and tests.

On week 5: we took some feedback and we modified and finalized the whole games.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009

this is the T-MAN the progress is 78% completed, it will finish soon.








Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Design investigation

unfortunately, CS4 needs to be updated by a license which i can not get sine I am under 25. Now we are looking at two sites which are miniclip.com sketch star and createorconquer.com, we are designing the game on both sites and then choose one of them depending on how good they are.

the good things about sketch star is:

- easy to use and its free
- the best program for under 14

the bad things about it:

- VERYYYYYYYY limited tools and animation choices
-the pages are limited
-complicated steps for publishing/saving
-the pages are small so you can not make a big wide game.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

HORRAY I SAY i found a solution of using CS4, the game is now under testing at my home, and as i said i spended the whole day searching and trying to solve our problem. i searched at the library in break lunch, home and on the IT lessons and i finally solved it. the game is still not published yet, im testing it and adding backgrounds, animation and so far its good.

1- i designed 30 scripts of moving. (under progress 46% done)

2- i animated them fully. (still under progress 10% done)

3- i went to miniclip and did some sketches and designs to get an i dea.

4- i looked at other designs.

by the next weekned i should have finished at least 60 to 70 percent in each step. I'll bring some screen shots tommorrow on my working.

planing for project: antibullying

well at the start we came up with GREAT plans and ideas, i thought that it would be easy using my flash CS4 but, unfortunately it did not. i designed the pictures the background and the animation but then when i tried to publish it, i did not find any software to do it. For now we are thinking of changing the plan, I'm still waiting in case of a HOPE or a help of some one. i will try my best in searching and i will not give up until i do my best.

Our plan is we will have 5 characters, first we will have three bullies and one who is the victim, after he gets bullied a teacher comes (T-man) he first take the ruler of justice ( ordinary tall ruler) and slap their hands, then they shout "is that the best you can do T-man" and he goes "paper of doom" (detention slips) so they take it and flip it over and see the word "DETENTION" so they all fall down, then he stands up proudly then his pants falls off.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

anlyzing anti bullying websites

one of the websites i like is http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/, it has a lot of examples and simple explanation for bullying, here is a screen shots for the websites.



the site is explaining all kinds of bullying, weather it was a girl or a boy, a teen age or a a child. the site also include how to deal with such things and it also have a bottoms for a poll voting for what to do when your getting bullied.

 
For some people, bullying is that girl at school who always makes fun of them. For others, it's the biggest guy in the neighborhood who's always trying to beat them up or take their things. Another kind of bullying is when a group of people gang up against a boy.

There are many types of bullying, one of them is Physical bullying like:

    * Hitting, kicking, or pushing someone...or even just threatening to do it
    * Stealing, hiding or ruining someone's things
    * Making someone do things he or she don't want to do 

Verbal bullying like:

    * Name-calling
    * Teasing
    * Insulting 

Relationship bullying like:

    * Refusing to talk to someone
    * Spreading lies or rumors about someone
    * Making someone do things he or she doesn't want to do 

Another site ishttp://sandeelee.blogs.com/ 
 site is similar to the other one, but the first one has more information. Basically the site explains how to deal with bullies and what to do when a bully starts to annoy you. 

I myself prefer the first one.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

iweb was working great but, unfortunately the HTML snippet and navigation bottoms were not working as the picture shows below.


iweb had alot of features, more than than i expected, it was amazing and good quality program. i recommend anyone who wants to make a site, use iweb.

i tried to follow the information cycle as much as possible, but i think i focused on investigation, create and attitude.

in investigation, wildfire is a small subject and i spent over three lessons to search, then i stored it at either my google documents or delicious.

in create, i changed the font to arial with red color, i also added a lot of pictures and examples, i have emergency plan, what to do incase of a wildfire and even more.

in plan, i graped a paper and drew the possible design that i had in mind, but at last i modfied it, such as the vidoes were changed and the introduction.

the deisgn is pretty much good, i tried to make it the same as my sketched one, i only modified some parts of it, such as videos and the order of the pages.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Client Meeting

Design and layout I think that my design is a bit similar although i modified it because before, i didn't know what exact designs we need so i can say that i stuck to the main design, i only changed the details.

topic and research
well i have done a lot of research because my topic which is wild fire has a minimum information so i kind of wasted almost three lessons searching, i also worked on my i web and so far I am in my third or fourth page.

color, font, multimedia
till this momment, i have the font which is red for the fire color and the font which is used is Arial but what im really want to use is a font which matches with fire. The multimedia that i used is a little because i cant embed videos, some technical problems occurred.

Does it have five pages?
 yes, it actually have seven pages

features of iweb. -what is working iweb have a lot of features but, right now im only using font, color and some of multimedia and so far they all are working. -what is not working the HTML snippet and the navigation bottoms.

embedding
well right now i did not use embedding or widget because my iweb is having technical problems.

A widget is a small program run by the Mac OS X Dashboard or the Yahoo! Widget Engine. Dashboard is only available on Macintosh computers, while the Yahoo! Widget Engine is available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. Dashboard and Yahoo! widgets are not compatible with each other, so similar widgets must be created separately for each widget engine.

emergency plan
yes i have an emergency plan and its completed and yes i have a reference page.


here is a screen shot of my delicious and google documents

delicious

















my Google account




















my iweb

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Look at and Review over websites listed below. Answer questions in your blog what did you like about the website? Compare and contrast with another website. Features, buttons, colors, layout, multimedia

http://www.redbloodclub.net/

well the website is a searching site sort of like Google, its organized, clean and easy to use. the website is made by an effort, not a lot but, it can be called one although, the name is quite strange and ugly, red blood club, that's in my opinion is dumb other than that, the search has a few information and only under the search bottom and i have to say its not all accurate so, i would say its not recommended, the owner doesn't want to improve it so, bad website it is in my opinion.

http://www.hrodc.com/

you can see that this site is being approved but, because its a big site, it has a lot of informations, the site got crowed and untidy beside the poor layout, its boring, ugly and no effort was put in with this site. the site is also very crowded so when you go to search you get confused which leads you to close down.

http://www.fast-cars-uk.com/

you can see that the layout and farm is cool, shaded, in another words, fully animated which means a lot of effort was put in the website. the website title matches all the informations that they put in the web, you can also see that its not completely useless, it has shop feature for buying cars although, i do not know if its a scamming site or not but, ill give it thumbs up anyways.

http://www.henkel.com/cps/rde/xchg/

you can see again that layout absolutely pleasing, its tidy, not crowded, they provided enough informations about the site and briefly. you can also see that the site is talking about a man and his business or speeches. i would give it ok mark.


Sunday, January 11, 2009

Which communication forms are synchronous?
Synchronous means instant or fast so, basically they are like messenger, phone, instant text messaging, chat, forums and so on. you can see that those kind of communications are the sort of communications that two people can speak or type the same times unlike emails, you must wait and read in order to give a reply.

Which ones are asynchronous?
Asynchronous means not instant, slow so, basically its something like email, where two people cant talk or type the same time. these are used in buisniss or university.the new generation dont use email anymore because of its slowness and they are also always in a hurry.

What type of information would be conveyed by each form?
synchronous devices can be used in emergency or disasters that strikes, they use it because its fast and instants unlike asynchronous. Asynchronous especially email is often used in buisniss or colleges, university or registration online. so baisically asynchronous is used in non emergencies.

What is needed in hardware and software for each?
we need the following hardware.

monitor



keyboard









mouse





Remove Formatting from selection


desktop/hard ware


Wednesday, January 7, 2009

What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online? Please list

we can use computers.

computers software are: window vista, gateway, XPS, MC.

computer internet are: firefox, internet explore, safari.

we also can use:

mobile

computer mobile

black berry

and so on.

we can also use sites such as flickr, facebook, myspace and rarely youtube.
What information can be created before the emergency?

some countries usually gets a lot of earth quakes, floods, etc. so you should provide the past emergency with the details and what chances that can happen again. In this case, if the disaster happen again, you should be prepared for it right away. you may also need to provide the information i mentioned in the previous post.
What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?

the most important information when a natural disaster strikes is, where it happened, when it happened and how many people where angered so they know how much supporting is needed. if you provide those information you can get replies easy and fast beside, you will be saving a lot of life's.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami?

in these two disasters, they used ham radio



What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami?

in these two disasters, they used ham radio
Why is communication so important during an emergency?

Its very important for many reasons but, the main reason is saving life, communication is really important to save others life's. can you imagine the world with no internet, no you can not, not because you cant play anymore, it is because you can not search, phone, communicate at all!. we can use internet in emergency in order to inform others really fast so no life's are wasted. in the old times, when people had no internet they had to run or ride a horse to go to anyone who can help, in other words Internet is important more that what you think!!!.

task investigation

Week 1-3: Investigate

Use these questions as a starting point to research (Please conduct internet research to answer these questions) Each question requires a paragraph response:
Why is communication so important during an emergency?
What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami?
What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?
What information can be created before the emergency?
What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online? Please list