Friday, July 30, 2010

Storyboards

Last July 28, our group was supposed to have another conference, but because of some stuff, we were not able to do so. Instead, Arisa sent us a message telling us what to do. We have to do a storyboard for each rooms in the house. We divided the rooms among ourselves:

Arisa - Kitchen and Bathroom
Anna - Garden and Living Room
Jasper - Dining Room and Bedroom

In the storyboard, we have to include what the rooms are supposed to look like. We also have to include what the "clickables" should look like. The artist we talked to will do it on graphics, so we will do the storyboard.

The storyboard we will be working on consists of two pages. The first page is intended for the room, and the second one is for the "clickables." The deadline we set for the storyboard will be on August 7/ August 9.

- Jasper Martija

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Idea for the Project

Last Friday night, the Hex group had another conference. We talked about the things that our courseware should have. We already visualized our project D-LIFE's environment to be a house with a lot of things to learn through the different rooms in it. With that, the students will know that they can also discover new things in their homes and not just in school. Anyway, we consider our homes our first school and our parents as our first teachers.

The group decided to make the rooms sort of "clickables", wherein the students can play games while learning and/or watch videos that gives information about a certain topic in Science. The parts of the house that we'll include are the garden, kitchen, bedroom, living room, dining room and the bathroom.

In the living room, Hex decided to put an aquarium where the students can feed the fish. We based the idea of fish feeding from the game Feeding Frenzy. In the bedroom, we'll have a picture of a kid and his/her body systems drawn. Maybe it could be somewhat a matching type game wherein the player should match the body part [word] to the picture. In the bathroom, it'll be a clickable heater then a game will load about the conversion of energy. In the kitchen or the dining, we'll have a memory game that features different food or food mixtures, solutions etc. Lastly the garden, we'll feature an animal and the game would be the right way of taking care of it.

This is what we've discussed during our conference last Friday night. Hex will meet again for another discussion about the storyboard. Hex already found an artist who is willing to draw the story board for the group and we just have to pay for his service.

Oh! And by the way, we already got the mailing address for our hopefully sponsor, Smart, all we need is the finalized letter to sponsors from our instructor, Ma'am Sheli Moscatel.

-Yam CastaƱeda

Monday, July 19, 2010

Project Proposal

At 10 o'clock this morning, we (CWTS M3 students) met up to set the deadlines for the course/subject requirements. The deadlines are as follows:

August 9, 2010 - Storyboard or Course ware Outline
August 23, 2010 - Paperworks (Project Proposal/Management Plan)
September 23, 2010 - Final Presentation (last meeting for the semester)

After which, our group (Hex) convened to finalize the concept of our project. We decided to take Science as the subject matter of our game. We will be discussing topics about human beings, animals and plants based from the Philippines Curriculum for Science and Health given by our instructor. Since the topics concerns "life", we named our project/game "D - LIFE" which means "Discover Lots of Interesting Facts on/about Existence". We ended up by assigning to Jasper Martija the setting up and management of our blog and by scheduling our next meeting on Friday 8pm through Yahoo! Messenger Conference. :D:D:D

-written by: Arisa C. Ochavez