Topic Sentences

THESIS STATEMENT: Celebrities' bad behavior is more covered by news stories than their good behavior because it causes controversy, it affects a large majority, and it causes social disruption.


Topic Sentence 1: The first reason why celebrities' bad behavior is more covered by news stories than their good behavior because it causes controversy.


Topic Sentence 2: Another reason why celebrities' bad behavior is more covered by news stories than their good behavior because it affects a large majority of people.


Topic Sentence 3: Lastly, celebrities' bad behavior is more covered by news stories than their good behavior because it causes social disruption.

My Introduction Paragraph for IA2(Prompt1)

                            In today's quickly changing world, we have evolved to the point where everything is all routine, common sense, and clear to understand. Everyone has evolved to the point where perfection isn't just a concept, but an expectation. Celebrities can be icons or role models, but however others process them, bad behavior causes controversy and is more noticed than good behavior because it isn't expected, it's irregular and out of their stereotypical expectations. Celebrities' bad behavior is more covered by news stories than their good behavior because it causes controversy, it affects us all, and it causes social disruption. (Thesis Statement)

EVALUATION

             The last part of the design cycle is to evaluate myself. I need to rate myself from a 1 to a 6 in every stage in the design cycle based on the postings to my blog. Then I am to rate and evaluate my peers on how well they did in every stage in the design cycle.

INVESTIGATE:

In the investigate step in the design cycle, I would rate myself a 6 because I was able to identify my problem and formulate a design specification. I think I did a good job in rating the two tools that I was considering using.

PLAN:

In the plan step in the design cycle I would rate myself a 6 because I was able to firstly plan out all of my time with the gant chart, and was able to create my three designs and chose one. I also reflected on why I chose it so that everyone would better able to understand my methods.

CREATE:

In the create step in the design cycle I would rate myself a 6 because I think I did an awesome job with saving the URL and the hyperlink and everything considering that I had never worked with this kinda stuff before. I also feel really good about the game because it looks really fun but I haven't gotten a chance to play yet.....................

EVALUATE:
In the evaluate step in the design cycle I would rate myself a 6 because I think I have done really good with creating and keeping up with my reflections, and I am very excited about going and reviewing the products of my peers.

My Progress in the Evaluate Step

            So far I am pretty much done with everything, but the only thing I have left to do is to survey the 6th graders. I think it would be to complicated to gather them up and have them test my product right here in school. At first I though that I should just let them answer the survey on my blog by posting it as a comment. I think though that I should just type a document explaining my project and the link to my game and the questions so that they could just do it from home. I can then probably print out like ten or so sheets and visit the sixth grade classes in power period and announce to them what I'm doing and if any of them want to help me out by reviewing my product.

Self Reflection

1. How can my learning serve my community?

The goal for me- essentially- is to go to college. In order to do that, I will have to stay in school and study hard. And another person from the RGV to have gone to college will help better my community because it will diminish statistics and barriers that many have yet to overcome.

2. How can your future projects become better?

 Now I know that I am not limited to these tools, and next time I know that I have more options to chose from which will be beneficial because it will help me to expand and I will have more options of how to present.

3. What have you learned about yourself and what you will continue to do or not do and why?

In doing this project I have learned that I like working and presenting through my blog to my teacher. I think it ensures accuracy and it makes it easier to interact with the different tools and programs that my teacher has provided. Working with a blog not only allows us to be creative, but it helps to make sure that there is no miscommunication between teacher and student. And I thimk that even after this project I will continue to post to my blog because it really helps when you are trying to use the design cycle  when doing a project, and it makes it easier for the teacher to track my progress.

4. How do you feel about your final product? What would you rate yourself on the Rubric scale of 1-6 for each part of the Assessment Criterion?

I feel really good about my final product because I worked really hard on it and I feel that others will be able to benefit greatly from it. For the rating, I know that I would rate myself a 5 in the investigate step because I really did do the research and everything, but I was unaware of all of my options, and for that reason I would rate myself a 5. In the plan step I would rate myself a 6 because I think I did good considering the due date and how I was able to divide and plan out my time according to the due date of my project. In the create step in the design cycle I would rate myself a 6 because I was able to use my resources effectively in order to create a product that will be effective. In the evaluate step, even though I haven't  entirely finished it, I would rate myself a 5 so far because I am doing a good job reflecting so far.

5. What would you do differently in regards to your planning and execution of your plan?

I think next time I would try to be more time efficient and work outside of class in order to use my time more effectively and be able to accomplish more.

My Progress in the Evaluate Step

              So I have already finished my product, and yesterday I was able to create my survey from my dad's phone. The last steps that I have to take in the evaluate step, is to survey the sixth graders (I haven't really found any 6th graders to test my product yet, but I think I can just handout my survey with the URL to my blog so that they can test and evaluate my product from home). I also need to reflect on the steps that I took and why I took them, I also need to evaluate my product as well as my blog and rate them. Then next week we will be peer-evaluating.

Evaluate

In the evaluate step in the design cycle,I have to evaluate my final product and my use of the design cycle. In order to evaluate my product to see how useful my product will be in helping teach a sixth grader how to use the design cycle,I must somehow be able to test the sixth grader on how effective my product was. I have decided to create a survey that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of my product. In my survey not only will I ask about simplicity or how hard/easy it was,but I will also ask if try had fun playing,if they would recommend it to a friend,and if it helped them learn about the design cycle easier.

Survey:
1.On a scale of 1 to 10 how easy was it to access this game?
2.On a scale of 1 to 10 how much fun did you have playing this game?
3.Would you recommend this game to a friend?
4.Did this game make it easier to learn about the design cycle?
5.In 3 complete sentences name 3 things that you learned.
6.Were there any errors or flaws in this game? If so name them and what could/should be done to correct them.
7.Was it beneficial that ther were several game formats to chose from?
8.Do you think your teachers should provide this resource to other sixth grade students?