G10 Tech Class #16

If you need some time to finish the last details of your products from Project 1 to turn them in today, please work on the first thing today (20 min aprox).


At 11.10m we will begin with Project 2: Digitally Enhanced Tour of WA

We will work on making a 3D map of the school to start. Please take a look at these:

• making a map of the school using Google SketchUp
• Have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery

Let's start thinking about the following for our Project 2:

• who would the audience be?
• what would they expect to get from the tour?
• what stops/places are we looking into listing in our tour?
• why?
• what are the highlights of WA that you think should be included in the tour?

Please post your answers to this Form.

The dynamic of the project would be the following:

• Regroup for this project with someone who you haven't work with in Project 1.
• decide where / how will we identify the stops needed for the Tour?
• assign one stop per group
• create a map of the school using Google SketchUp
• have a look at the K-12 Education SketchUp Gallery
• create a storyboard and script of what your video/stop will be about
• choose the application/tool that you think best suits your needs: website, video, animation, voicethread, etc
• shoot video, take pics, conduct interviews, etc to get the content needed and synthesize it digitally
• out all links/postings together
• upload the product (movie, animation, etc)
• get an URL for it
• use a QR Code to identify the stop
• fully test QR codes, links, postings, videos, etc
• print and laminate a big QR code for your tour stop (your names on the back)
• install QR codes @ tour stops

Get Ready for 3D Learning: More with Google SketchUp

Brent Jacobsen tackled the basics of Google SketchUp in the “Start Thinking in 3D: Google SketchUp” webinar.  Now learn more about modeling, and watch your creativity come to life.  In this webinar, Brent will briefly review the basics of Google SketchUp and delve a little deeper into some of the more advanced tools and features of the program. 

G10 A-3 TechClass #4

I have received your Mind Map Assignments on the Design Cycle, Thank you! I will send you my feedback and grading shortly to the email from where you submitted. So, please be sure to check it :-)

If you have not turned in the AUP, you can do so till the end of this week (Sept 2). You can download it from the MYP Technology Docs webpage.

Today we will talk about collaborative tools for you to work together in your projects. Let's start by watching these You Tube videos in my You Tube Channel: Google Docs Playlist.

• Google Docs Intro:




• Google Docs in Plain English


• Google Apps new look


• Using Google Docs


• Intro to Google Docs


• Google Docs 2011 Beginner Tutorial


• Google Docs Sharing and Collaboration Tutorial.

We will continue working on Project 1: Investigate Stage

• What is the problem?


• Relation / Relevance to AOIs / society / yourself?


• Develop a Design Brief


• Pose the guiding questions for you research


• Include references to your (evaluated) sources of info


• Biblio


• State design Specifications (essential & desirable)


• how will you test your product?

Please take a look at the G10 Investigation Draft Shared Document that we started in class regarding Investigate Stage for Project 1.