Stykz

STYKZ TECH 2

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Area of Interaction: Environments Significant Concept: Design Cycle Skills, Basic animation skills, Systems Unit Question: How can the virtual environment be used to tell a story about our environments?

Day 1: Take the Test on [|Skyward].

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) __Identify the Problem __ 1. What is the problem you need to solve? The problem that we need to solve is to tell a story using animation.  2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? The design cycle applies to the real world because you can use it to solve many real-world problems.  3. What are virtual environments? Virtual environments are environments on the internet.  4. How have virtual environments changed our society? They have changed our society greatly because they make it much easier for our society to communicate and solve problems. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 5. Explain the different environments that you live in: I live in my neighborhood, I go to my school, I hang out with my group of friends, and I also do a lot of things online. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 6. How can the virtual environment be used to tell a story about our environments? Because both environments are populated by people and the virtual environment can be used to educate the people in our environments. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 7. What is Stykz? Stykz is a program that can be used for animation. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Below are the requirements for this assignment:
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Create a Stykz animation.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It should be at least 30 seconds.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You need to create a story about our environment.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Your story needs to have a plot that I can understand.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I do not want your story to be gross, demented, or violent. That makes me sad, which will make your grade sad.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is due March 10 at the end of class.

__<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Design Brief __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">8. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it for. I am going to make a Stykz animation for anybody to watch. I am making it to be interesting and fun for people. __<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Formulate a Design Specification __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">9. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? The limitations are that you have to use Stykz to make it. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 10. How will you "test" your project? I will test it by watching it.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">PLAN: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">11. What are your ideas for Stykz? My ideas are making a kid going to school, working hard and getting a good grade, a kid who goes to school and does drugs and fails in life, and a kid who doesn't look before he crosses the road and gets hit by a car. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 12. What idea did you choose for Stykz and why did you choose it? I chose the first idea of having a kid who goes to school and tries hard a gets a good grade because it was the happiest and interesting. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 13. Type a brief explanation of your final plot below: There is a kid and he walks to school. Then he goes to school (one of his environments) and uses something that he learned in his virtual environment (the internet) to work hard and get a good grade on an assignment. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 14. Do your ideas meet all of the requirements? Yes, my idea meets all of the requirements. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 15. Explain how you will use your time to get your projects finished by the end of the day March 10.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">March 7: Answer questions, Skyward test, start Stykz
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">March 8: Work
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">March 9: Work
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">March 10: Finish Design Folder (this wikispace) and Stykz assignment due.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This is How You Will Be Graded: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Investigate: +15 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Plan: +15 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Create: +10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Attitude: +10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Creating a Quality Stykz Story: +50 (Remember, I don't want gross!)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">TOTAL = 100