Test Interface

Here is the test interface.

Lie

Drape suggestions for 'R logos'

Lie, this is what i was trying to say about the 'cape being drapped to the side'.
IF you can do them this way, then it will be great ( i really do think having the Rs as superheroes is a good idea!)

But if you can't then its fine and we'll just leave them as they are..




http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumb_328/12253898509ucWOe.jpg


Shamama

Superhero R

Here is an initial idea of what the three R's would look like as Superheros. Personally I think that they look better without the cape. Let me know what you guys think.

Lie

Mr Earth

Hey guys, heres the characterised earth logo, its actually animated so that the earth behind the face is rotating. Unfortunately i cant upload the swf file here for you guys to see but heres a still jpeg.

Let me know what you guys think.

Lie

The 3 R's

Here are the logo's for the three "R's", hope you like them, i will post a test 'superhero R' version soon just so you guys can see how it would look. I will also upload a characterised earth once i have completed the design.

Lie

feedback on game and changes needed

Changes that will appear in the game!!

After running some initial tests in the 'recycle game' and testing them on the three children which my sister tutors..i found the following problems:

1) Each time the child played the game, they skipped the instruction part and went straight to the play button. As they did not read the instructions, they did not know what the do once the game has started!!
I then had to tell them to read the instructions first..
To change this, what i will do is in instead of having a 'start button' and 'instructions button' i will simply just have a 'read instructions button'. This will ensure the user HAS to read the instructions before playing the game.

2) I found that the time limit did not give enough time. Although initially i thought that by making it hard, it would be an incentive for the children to play again and try and get a better score. But i think i 10 seconds is too quick!!
To solve this, i will simple extend the timer and give 15 seconds or maybe even 20 seconds!

3) I also found there to be confusion about the scoring board. The children could not work out how much they had actually scored. I had to them what they scored.
I was thinking in order to change this, i will have white circles in the scoring board and once the user correctly places an item in the correct box, then each circle will get coloured in.
Once the timer runs out..i will have perhaps the following 'Count the number of coloured circles you correcty got scored'.
This way will hopefully correct any confusion about scoring board.

I will aim to implement these changes to the game by next lesson!

Shamama

Update on Arts and Craft

Just a quick update on the arts and crafts section. I have finished editing the first video: "how to make a frog". I tried to upload the video onto the blog so you guys could see it but the file is too big so I will bring it in next time we meet up.

I now have to write up a script and record the voice over to go with the video footage. I will aim to have fully completed this first video by next week.

Lie

The 3 R's logo refined

Here are some more refined logo ideas. I based them on the numberjacks. I made the R's look as if they had been cut out by a child (hence the rough edges) and gave them their respective characteristics: e.g. Recycle is green and has the recycle logo printed on him. Reduce is yellow (as he is like energy) and he is smaller (i tried to make him look like he's reducing in size) let me know if that works. If you guys like this style and the design then I will carry on and make one for Re-use. I know we said we would make superheroes so I will upload a version of them with capes and we'll see if that works.

Let me know what you guys think

Lie

Sham-recycle game!

Screen shots of my working GAME!

It was a lot of work, but i have finally managed to do it! :)

A couple of problems, i am still having is that once you click on the 'play again' button, the 'scores' do not reset, instead they remain intact. To solve this problem i have placed a action-script saving that once that button is pressed, it will go to scene 2 (instructions page). I know this is not ideal but it clears the 'scores' up and allows the player to play from scratch.

I will still be looking into fixing the problem though..

Some of the issues that i had was about the timer and how 10 seconds was too short..

what do you think about the game?

I will bring it to class for you to play!! :D

Shamama

How to make Binoculars

Here is the final product for the second part of my "how to" section.

it's a pair of binoculars made from toilet rolls, card and ribbon.

once again the footage has been shot and all thats left is the editing which I am in the process of doing.

Lie

Wordsearch and colouring pictures ideas!

Another good find that i found was from http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page567.aspx

In their website, they have lots of PDF files which has lots of activities for the children to do.

One of their activity is to have the outlines of 'recycle images' and it asks the children to print it out and colour the picture. Also they have a word searches and the child has to print it out and do the word search.

Obviously, it would be much better if we did the two 'activities/game' using flash but i think having it still images would work very well. It would be very simple to do and would be an effective interactivity aspect to the project.

(IF we do have time, then maybe we can create them in flash but understandable with the time limit, i know that probably won't happen!)

Shamama

Arts and crafts - make a frog

Here is the final product of the "Make a Frog" video that will be in my arts and crafts section.

I have shot the necessary footage in order to make my "how to" video, and am now in the process of editing.

Lie

stila makeup using 3Rs!!

Hey!

Consequently, yesterday i got this an newsletter email from stila makeup ( i have signed up to them)

I saw in their newsletter, they are are incorporating the 3Rs in their makeup!! :O

I liked their title for 'Go Green' and thought we could use that for our certificate part?!

So have the logo and then have the three 'Rs' below....below is kind of what the layout will be..

This is a very basic layout that i did really quickly but i was thinking to incorporate an actual certificate format..

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nfsc.org/images/256f-x.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.nfsc.org/alarms.html&usg=__WeXIyMVlEUB2jJmtGCl7i5kqHaA=&h=840&w=547&sz=90&hl=en&start=2&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=P6Gc6Zx_wLz-iM:&tbnh=145&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsmoke%2Balarm%2Bcertificate%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2ADSA_enGB333%26tbs%3Disch:1

Let me now about your thoughts?

Shamama

The 3 R's logo

Here are some initial logo ideas based on the numberjacks, just some quick drafts made in photoshop.

Lie

target audience research...

I took part in an informal chat with three children that my sister teaches.(Palvey aged 9, Sanjay aged 8 and Bhadal aged 6).
I asked them what they knew about recycling and if they knew anything about the three 'Rs'.

The response i got was that they knew very little. They knew that recycle was 'something about sorting rubbish'. When asked what the three 'Rs' were, all of them knew recycle was one of them, but they struggled with the other two. When asked to quess what they could be, answers i got were 'rubbish' and 'red' (im not joking!)

When I asked them if they recycled at home, they said that their mum does it and that they don't get involved!


Some of my thoughts after asking them about their knowledge about being green was that mainly that we need to make it very clear what the three 'Rs' are!!

Another idea i had was to make a section where we create a kind of certificate for the children. We could have the three 'Rs' placed on a page and we ask the children to write down what 'Rs' they have practiced in a week..I think this idea would be very good for our project and it will hopefully involve the children in a more fun way!! :)

Shamama

reduce, re-use and recycle song

Hey guys!
I found this song about recycling..I know that initially we said that we wanted to have quite a mellow and subtle music playing throughout, but i think we can use this somewhere in the project. We would need to edit it but i think it would be good to use.

The song talks about reduce, re-use and recycle!!! :D

Let me know what you think!

Shamama

The 3 R's logo

Hey guys,

Since the focus of our project is now on the 3 R's I think it would be a good idea to characterise the letter R to their respective titles. Eg. characterise an "R" for Recycle, an "R" for Re-use and an "R" for Reduce.

Drawing inspirantion from the "Numberjacks"







Lie

changes to the E-Learning: Recycle,Reduce and Re-use

After careful consideration about our E-learning project, we have decided to change some aspects of the project. Due to the feeling that our project was not focused enough, we have changed it to primarily teaching the three Rs ( recycle, reduce and re-use).

The project will be spilt into three different sections, which each member of the group will be responsible for (I am going to do recycle section, Lie is going to do the re-use section and finally Duke will do reduce)

In each of the 'R' sections, there will all have information teaching the children what the 'R' stands for and what it is. Quizzes will be used to test the childen's knowledge. We will also have 'fun facts' and finally each section will have some sort of game for the children to play.

By having a more clearer and a more focused objective for our E-learning project, we hope this makes it a better and more successful project!

Shamama