Criteria D- My Final Reflection

Design Idea Specification	Met/ Not Met
Background	Met
Sprite Used	Met
Music	Met
Speech	Met
Colour	Met
Action Taking Place	Not met
Sense of Appeal	Met

My Scratch Project was about recycling in 2 different communities and I wanted to find out how much people recycled weekly and monthly so I asked all the people that lived in Meadows and Springs in my class to see how much they recycled. I also wanted to put my survey on a community website but there was no community website and I also tried to put it on a Facebook page but I wasn't able to.I could have improved my research if I was able to put it onto these websites so more people would answer the survey and I could know more about what the people do in the community. With my survey research that I took from my class, I found out that people did recycle but not that much at all and sometimes they didn't recycle every month. I then saw that I needed to increase awareness to the people living in these communities and I would do that by putting posters around the community about recycling and also giving them a link to go to my blog and watch my animation about recycling. I was not able to put up the posters as I had to move to a different place but I was still able to do the animation and show a lot of people. I then had to come up with an idea of my animation and how exactly was I going to actually create it, so I had to then make a story board showing what I was going to do. I had to make to different ideas and in my first one I showed 8 different scenes. These are my 8 scenes: My project and what is recycling, What is going on in the community, How can you help the problems, how many people are recycling and how much, What is going on in the world, Where is the waste going, Fines on Recycling and Raising Awareness. My other story board had only 4 scenes with more details, It was talking about: Recycling, Problems in Communities, Solutions and World/ Awareness. I chose my first idea since it was more spread out and easier to do. I could have improved my storyboard that I chose by adding more detail into it like saying what codes I was going to use from scratch, what background I was going to use for each scene,what sprite I was going to use, What colours would be used, would there be any music or speech, would there be words and also talk about what exactly I was going to say. If I had included all these things in my storyboard, I could have made my scratch project more informative and with more use of scratch to show my knowledge and make it easier for me to actually make the final product. As I went on with finishing my storyboard, we then had to start making our final scratch project. I knew exactly what I was doing and it worked in the end it all worked very well together because of the good storyboard planning as well. The animation had a lot of information and it talked fully about recycling, the solutions, world problems, etc... The final project was very good but there were also many ways in which it could have been improved. Firstly let me tell you what was good about it, there was music which played constantly to entertain the person watching which was one of the new skills I learnt on Scratch, there was also dialogue that was coming out of the sprites mouth that I had to type up and the people would be able to read it, I also had different backgrounds and I had one bit of speech at the end. Now there were many improvements that I could have made with the presentation, Firstly, I could have increased the time of the message that was being spoken to the person watching so that they had more time to read it and they did not have to rush. I could have also instead of the person reading the message, instead I could have just recorded my voice and the person would be more relaxed and they would just have to listen to me talk. I could have also added more backgrounds that would be suiting each single different thing that I was talking about to show off more of my skill and it would make it more entertaining. One of the main things that I could have improved could be to change the sprite since it was the same throughout the entire presentation and also make it move around to make it more fun. I then could have also added in some of the results that I got from the survey that I took and then the people watching could know exactly how much people are recycling and what is going on. I could have also made sure to check my spelling for no mistakes because there might have been around 1 or 2 mistakes in the speech. I could have maybe also managed my time much better by spending more time on my scratch project but due to the fact that I did not have Wi-fi during I was moving I was not able to do much at the end other then adding music and a little bit of speech. If I had to do my project again I would do all these things and I would have also made sure to do my research on a bigger scale next time for better results leading to my final presentation to be much better. I think I did very well during this scratch project even with the pressure of time and I could have also made many improvements to achieve a higher level but there's always a next time!

Criteria C- Final Scratch Project

CRITERIA B

SELF EVALUATION OF CRITERION-B

Name:__________Mehul__________________

Checklist	Tick
Design Specification of your Story Board	Yes
Design Idea 1	Yes
Design Idea 2	Yes
Evaluated my design according to my specification (slides 10 and 11 provide guidance)	Yes
Justified my chosen Design Idea	Yes
Bibliography	No

My first design has only 4 scenes where I will be speaking about recycling and what is going on with recycling. In that scene I will be using the backgrounds of a park or a garden where there is a lot of litter, I will also have a sprite of a normal boy and the sounds will be me speaking and asking questions. I will then use different coding like the codes from looks and sounds and also control.
My second scene will be me talking about what is going on in the community and how people are recycling over there and what they should do to improve the recycling over there. I will use a sprite of the same boy again and the background will be of a community or if I can the springs and meadows community. I will also use the same codes as the first scene and I will be using the same codes for all the scenes and when I am doing it I might learn some new ones. My 3rd scene will have all the solutions that can be used to improve recycling and what can be done in the community to improve it. I will have the backgrounds containing all the different backgrounds and the sprite will be the boy again talking about the solutions and how it would work. My 4th scene will have what is going on in the world and where your waste is going and how you could recycle to help the world and also raise more awareness so more people recycle. I will have the backgrounds of different country's in the world and also things that could raise awareness. I will have the sprite of the boy again with my voice speaking about the world and what is going on and how to raise awareness in the world.

For my second storyboard I will be doing the same thing except it will be more spread out and have less information in each scene. It will still have the same codes, backgrounds and sprites and that's why I chose to do this storyboard but I will be using a lot of information from the other storyboard as well.

I came up with two of these ideas by looking at what exactly I needed for my design and I saw that if I did these different scenes the people would understand more about recycling and would understand more about what is going on in the community and what can people do to help it. The things that I should use are like the pictures to import and also the backgrounds to import and sprites to import so that it would look more realistic and people would be able to understand it better. The techniques and coding that I will use will be the control, motion, speech and looks coding and that will make it look better. I think that almost the whole presentation should be made by my skills and also the time that is available. I think it would require more time than what I already have because I also need to go check out the communities and see what is going on and also raise awareness by making videos and posters. I think the target audience would like my idea because it would look very serious and not only for kids and it is also set out into different scenes so people can see what is going on in the community and in the world. I chose the different backgrounds because people could see the different places in which it is going on and see what they can do to help it and it would also look more realistic. I chose one sprite which is just a normal boy who is talking with my voice and explaining everything that is going on in the different backgrounds and talking about recycling to people.

The design that I chose was my second one because it was more spread out even though it had less information. It would be easier to do 8 different scenes that did not have that much information rather than 4 different scenes that had a lot of information. It would also be easier to set it out in the animation and people would be able to understand it better so that's why I chose my second design.
What I will use for my Scratch Design:

• Different Scratches which will be real people showing how to recycle and also going around asking questions and also showing how to recycle 
• I will also have different backgrounds like the different communities and also the places where they recycle and also the different recycling bins around the place
• After I have the people and the communities, I will then have the places where waste get's collected and I will also be showing how it is affecting the environment
• I will also show how the people if they recycle what could be the difference and how it could help the environment and then they would also start recycling
• After I am done showing all that I will also show the differences after raising awareness and before raising awareness of recycling and with this video it will raise even more awareness of recycling in the community

CRITERIA A

SELF EVALUATION OF CRITERIA A

Name:____Mehul________________________

Checklist	Yes/No
What is the nature of the problem?	Yes
Who is it a problem for?	Yes
Where is the problem occurring?	Yes
What is the cause of the problem?	Yes
What effect is the problem having?	Yes
Identify questions that need to be answered to solve the problem	Yes
Identify the relevant data that need to be collected	Yes
Identify where the data will be sourced from	Yes
Identify whether sources are primary or secondary and analysis of charts	Yes
SWOT Analysis	Yes
Detailed Design Brief (answers to research question)	Yes
Bibliography	No

1.I identified a design situation and it is to help the community recycle more so that they are helping the world and they also recycle in the proper bins and it would only take them a little bit of time! The needs to solve this problem is to get more recycling bins in the community and also advertise it more so that people know that this is happening. Also they could have a big place where everybody gather's around and recycles everything. They could also have a small fine for people who don't do the recycling so they learn a lesson and then they start doing the recycling in the future. Solving this problem is mainly for a particular community which is the Springs community so that they are contributing to recycling and they are trying to save their own lives and helping the entire world. I am going to have to make the project on Scratch and the problems I am going to face is to make different scenes and how to make it look realistic to the world and also like have it in different steps.

2.The nature of this problem is how people don't actually use the recycling bins properly and they put the wrong things in the wrong bins and as well as doing that some people don't even recycle and it's producing more waste in the world which could lead to a worse future and also more global warming. This is a problem for the world and it would lead to many bad things ahead of us and to help it people would have to just contribute a little bit and start recycling so you can start it from a community in whole. This problem is occurring all around the world today and people can't be bothered to move and recycle their waste which is a really easy thing to do. The cause of the problem is that in some places there are no recycling bins and sometimes people do not even know what recycling is so it just creates more bad things in the world.

3.I am mainly going to target a whole community which is springs! The techniques I will use to do this project is by putting posters all around the community so that people know more about recycling and I will also hold an event every weekend so that people come to it and recycle everything that they need to. I would also ask some people to maybe make a machine where if they recycle they will get a little bit of money for doing so people will be more encouraged. Also if people do it more and even the government know about it they will make a law where if you don't recycle every 2 weeks at least you would get a fine. I will also interview many people in the community and ask them on how much they recycle in about a month and I will also do a survey on different families and how much they recycle in a month so people can see the difference after this project. I will also observe how many people recycle every weekend and see how many people come in the future weeks. I will also take pictures every week to see the bin on how people have improved in recycling over a few weeks.

4.The questions that need to be answered to solve the problem:

Is there any way in which the community can communicate with each other online?

Is there any way the community can hold a recycling event?

When people don't recycle is there any way they can get in trouble or get a fine?

Is there any way we could find out how many people recycle?

The data that needs to be collected is how many people recycle per week and how much of waste is recycled every week

The data will be sourced from a survey website called survey monkey and I will make the survey!

The sources will mainly be Primary sources but I will try using a few secondary sources as well.

The sources that are essential are the surveys and writing letters to the people of the community and observing users interacting within the situation.

The secondary sources I will use is viewing videos on how to help recycling in the community.

SWOT analysis Backpack – Frameless
Strengths The strengths of my project will be that I am very good at communicating my ideas to public and I will be able to reach it out to the whole community by creating a survey asking the questions and also posting my scratch project showing how recycling will help the world and I will be posting the entire thing on a Facebook community page and if there are any websites for the community I could post it there as well to raise awareness.	Weaknesses The weaknesses of my project will be that I am not very good at using scratch and It would be hard to find out how to make a scratch project the way I want it. It would also be hard for me to find the themes that I would want for my scratch project and I would also need to find out   how to make it all happen at one time without anyone having to do anything. I would also have to make it attractive so people are bothered to watch and it would be a good way to raise the awareness.
Opportunities The opportunities that I would have with this project would be that it would not only be able to influence my community but it would also be able to influence other communities so that they could start recycling as well. I could then also go to schools in Dubai and they would start recycling more and once it becomes really famous it could go to Dubai municipality and then also be used around the entire world! With the data that I collected by giving people that live in Springs or Meadows i found out that not many people recycle that much and some people do not even recycle. Some people don't know how not recycling could affect our environment and what risks it could have in the future. Only 1 person who lives in springs or meadows recycled 6 bags every week. All the other people recycled less than 4 bags which is not good for the community and the environment. Now I know that recycling is not very popular in the community and now I need to raise awareness so that they are able to recycle more and know the good or bad effects.	Threats Some of the threats that I could face During this project would be that people would misuse the video and use it for doing other things and also the surveys they would not answer them properly and do bad things with it. Another threat would be that nobody would want to look at my project and no one would want to do recycling and would just be forgotten in the community.

Design Justification

The design that I chose was my second one because it was more spread out even though it had less information. It would be easier to do 8 different scenes that did not have that much information rather than 4 different scenes that had a lot of information. It would also be easier to set it out in the animation and people would be able to understand it better so that's why I chose my second design.

Reflection on background changing in scratch

In today's lesson we had two different tasks were first we had to look at different codings from scratch and we had to match it with the sentences saying what it was. Then we moved onto doing things on scratch where we learnt a skill of changing the backgrounds in scratch. We were also given help if we didn't know what to do and how to change the backgrounds. We chose 3 different backgrounds that we were going to use for our animation and I chose the desert, the canyon and the flower bed. We were then supposed to find out how would you be able to change from all of the different backgrounds and the codings that I used were from control, looks and sounds. The codings that i used from control were: When flag is clicked... and I also used wait 3 seconds. From looks I used the background changing code where you could chose which background you wanted. From sound I chose the one where it plays a sound and instead of using those sounds I recorded a sound of myself saying something. I then put all of these codings together to make it work properly and so that I didn't have to click anything and it just happened by itself. The sprite that I used was the normal scratch sprite and it worked well with the whole animation. We were also supposed to add a sound of ourselves speaking about what the different backgrounds were and make it so that it was perfectly timed with the backgrounds changing from one to another. I recorded the sounds of me saying things like' There is a desert in Dubai' and then put it together with the backgrounds changing and the whole animation worked very well. The skills that I learnt today were that I was able to know how to perfectly time two different elements at the same time without even touching the keyboard. I also learnt how to import different backgrounds of my choice into the animation and also input a recording of my own voice that would be talking about the backgrounds and so that the whole animation would work well together.

Scratch Background Changing

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/87187756/

Design Specification

My first design has only 4 scenes where I will be speaking about recycling and what is going on with recycling. In that scene I will be using the backgrounds of a park or a garden where there is a lot of litter, I will also have a sprite of a normal boy and the sounds will be me speaking and asking questions. I will then use different coding like the codes from looks and sounds and also control.
My second scene will be me talking about what is going on in the community and how people are recycling over there and what they should do to improve the recycling over there. I will use a sprite of the same boy again and the background will be of a community or if I can the springs and meadows community. I will also use the same codes as the first scene and I will be using the same codes for all the scenes and when I am doing it I might learn some new ones. My 3rd scene will have all the solutions that can be used to improve recycling and what can be done in the community to improve it. I will have the backgrounds containing all the different backgrounds and the sprite will be the boy again talking about the solutions and how it would work. My 4th scene will have what is going on in the world and where your waste is going and how you could recycle to help the world and also raise more awareness so more people recycle. I will have the backgrounds of different country's in the world and also things that could raise awareness. I will have the sprite of the boy again with my voice speaking about the world and what is going on and how to raise awareness in the world.

For my second storyboard I will be doing the same thing except it will be more spread out and have less information in each scene. It will still have the same codes, backgrounds and sprites and that's why I chose to do this storyboard but I will be using a lot of information from the other storyboard as well.

Design Situation

What I will use for my Scratch Design:

• Different Scratches which will be real people showing how to recycle and also going around asking questions and also showing how to recycle 
• I will also have different backgrounds like the different communities and also the places where they recycle and also the different recycling bins around the place
• After I have the people and the communities, I will then have the places where waste get's collected and I will also be showing how it is affecting the environment
• I will also show how the people if they recycle what could be the difference and how it could help the environment and then they would also start recycling
• After I am done showing all that I will also show the differences after raising awareness and before raising awareness of recycling and with this video it will raise even more awareness of recycling in the community

Design Brief

Analyzing my results

With the data that I collected by giving people that live in Springs or Meadows i found out that not many people recycle that much and some people do not even recycle. Some people don't know how not recycling could affect our environment and what risks it could have in the future. Only 1 person who lives in springs or meadows recycled 6 bags every week. All the other people recycled less than 4 bags which is not good for the community and the environment. Now I know that recycling is not very popular in the community and now I need to raise awareness so that they are able to recycle more and know the good or bad effects.

My survey- Research Questions

My survey for Recycling in the Springs and Meadows community

http://surveynuts.com/surveys/take?id=43587&c=443366981LRVN

Scratch Programming Project- Criteria A

1.I identified a design situation and it is to help the community recycle more so that they are helping the world and they also recycle in the proper bins and it would only take them a little bit of time! The needs to solve this problem is to get more recycling bins in the community and also advertise it more so that people know that this is happening. Also they could have a big place where everybody gather's around and recycles everything. They could also have a small fine for people who don't do the recycling so they learn a lesson and then they start doing the recycling in the future. Solving this problem is mainly for a particular community which is the Springs community so that they are contributing to recycling and they are trying to save their own lives and helping the entire world. I am going to have to make the project on Scratch and the problems I am going to face is to make different scenes and how to make it look realistic to the world and also like have it in different steps.

2.The nature of this problem is how people don't actually use the recycling bins properly and they put the wrong things in the wrong bins and as well as doing that some people don't even recycle and it's producing more waste in the world which could lead to a worse future and also more global warming. This is a problem for the world and it would lead to many bad things ahead of us and to help it people would have to just contribute a little bit and start recycling so you can start it from a community in whole. This problem is occurring all around the world today and people can't be bothered to move and recycle their waste which is a really easy thing to do. The cause of the problem is that in some places there are no recycling bins and sometimes people do not even know what recycling is so it just creates more bad things in the world.

3.I am mainly going to target a whole community which is springs! The techniques I will use to do this project is by putting posters all around the community so that people know more about recycling and I will also hold an event every weekend so that people come to it and recycle everything that they need to. I would also ask some people to maybe make a machine where if they recycle they will get a little bit of money for doing so people will be more encouraged. Also if people do it more and even the government know about it they will make a law where if you don't recycle every 2 weeks at least you would get a fine. I will also interview many people in the community and ask them on how much they recycle in about a month and I will also do a survey on different families and how much they recycle in a month so people can see the difference after this project. I will also observe how many people recycle every weekend and see how many people come in the future weeks. I will also take pictures every week to see the bin on how people have improved in recycling over a few weeks.

4.The questions that need to be answered to solve the problem:
Is there any way in which the community can communicate with each other online?
Is there any way the community can hold a recycling event?
When people don't recycle is there any way they can get in trouble or get a fine?
Is there any way we could find out how many people recycle?
The data that needs to be collected is how many people recycle per week and how much of waste is recycled every week
The data will be sourced from a survey website called survey monkey and I will make the survey!
The sources will mainly be Primary sources but I will try using a few secondary sources as well.
The sources that are essential are the surveys and writing letters to the people of the community and observing users interacting within the situation.
The secondary sources I will use is viewing videos on how to help recycling in the community.

SWOT analysis Backpack – Frameless
Strengths The strengths of my project will be that I am very good at communicating my ideas to public and I will be able to reach it out to the whole community by creating a survey asking the questions and also posting my scratch project showing how recycling will help the world and I will be posting the entire thing on a Facebook community page and if there are any websites for the community I could post it there as well to raise awareness.	Weaknesses The weaknesses of my project will be that I am not very good at using scratch and It would be hard to find out how to make a scratch project the way I want it. It would also be hard for me to find the themes that I would want for my scratch project and I would also need to find out how to make it all happen at one time without anyone having to do anything. I would also have to make it attractive so people are bothered to watch and it would be a good way to raise the awareness.
Opportunities The opportunities that I would have with this project would be that it would not only be able to influence my community but it would also be able to influence other communities so that they could start recycling as well. I could then also go to schools in Dubai and they would start recycling more and once it becomes really famous it could go to Dubai municipality and then also be used around the entire world!	Threats Some of the threats that I could face During this project would be that people would misuse the video and use it for doing other things and also the surveys they would not answer them properly and do bad things with it. Another threat would be that nobody would want to look at my project and no one would want to do recycling and would just be forgotten in the community.

Reflection on dance party- Lesson 2

In last weeks lesson we did some more exploring on Scratch and we were also experimenting with new blocks. The teacher gave us a paper which was dance party and we were supposed to follow the steps so that we could create what it wasshowing us. We were supposed to make our own charcters and make them dance. The new blocks that we experimented with were the movement blocks that were turn, we alsoo experimented with the sound blocks which were to play an instrument for a certain amount of beats and also the effect blocks which made the character do different changes in their body. We also used the blocks we used last lesson which were the control blocks and I already knew how to use them. I think that this lesson was really good because I was able to not only make one character but three and I was able to make them all move and do different dance steps. Next time maybe i would add a theme and a background to my scratch project so that it would make more sense to the people who are watching it.

Picture of my Scratch project

Reflecting: My Design Process

My inspiration for my project was that I love to do a lot of things at once and I also love using the laptop so I decided to do a lot of stuff for my scratch project and experimented with a lot of different stuff that I have never used. I did that by using many different movement blocks and also added many other characters and tried to make them all move at once. I got stuck on how to use different blocks and I got unstuck by reading the names of them and also got a sheet from the teacher to help myself learn the blocks. I am most proud of how I was able to put many different characters and make them all move at one time. Next time I might want to also include something with me doing something on the computer also playing cricket and also a lot of different elements put together at one time.

My scratch project

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/80556130/

Reflecting: Design Notebook Question Starter

What are the three things that you could represent yourself through images or sound?

Gaming

Cricket

Communicating

Reflection for Scratch 1

In class we made our first scratch project and we were experimenting on how to make it do different actions and we were also experimenting with different blocks which were things like Motion, Sounds, Controls etc... We were supposed to do a scratch project on what we like to do in our free time or what are our hobbies. In class I made a Scratch project where I have a picture of me on a body and it was moving around. I was able to move the objects together and that's what went well and next time when I do this project again I would add more elements and also show what exactly I do in my free time or what are my hobbies!

Rules for using laptop in School

Inquiring and Analysing- The software that I used for making my powerpoint was powtoon because I was used to using it from last year and it is also really interactive and does not make the people bored who are listening to the presentaion. It also means that the powerpoint does not have to be to long and it can be in short paragraphs so that the people watching are still paying attention and are also attracted to it. The new features that I learnt were to add animations to the slideshow so that it's more amusing to everyone. Here is pictures of each of my slide on Powtoon:

Scratch Programming

What does programming in computers mean?
Computer programming means making instructions for computers to do different tasks that you want them to do. These are called computer programs and helps the computer run better and lets you use it easily. There is also a certain language that is used to program computers and you can't understand it if you are not trained to. Computer programming in this day is one of the most important things and is necessary as the internet keeps on expanding.
How has computer programming evolved?
There has not been a lot that has changed over time in computer programming it has changed enough to help us interact with it better. We can now put data in by using touch screens and not punch cards. We are now also able to see things on a HD screen and not on a green screen which makes things easier for us. There have been new things like Java come in and it helps collect data and it has way better programming language that also means better programming facilities. New languages have come in to help program bigger computers ad it is now easier to do that. Everything related to computer programming these days are becoming cheaper which means there is no problem in doing it. Everything related to computer programming has now become much faster. Computer programming is mainly made up of 3 things which is collecting data with different variables performing conditional logic and also the fastest speed to make sure that everything is running smoothly