Welcome Back from Winter break!

DDP Blocks 3 and 4 for February 28, 2011

Welcome back!

Today’s assignment instructions:

Please follow these steps:

1. Open a Microsoft word document. (Click on start, programs, Microsoft office, and Microsoft office word).
2. Save the document as your name winter break document (example: Mike winter break)
3. Open your blue book to 1.3 key terms.
4. Use the internet as a research tool to find the definition for each term.
5. For each term:
1. Define the term (can be copy/pasted)
2. Write a sentence that uses this term in a meaningful way.
3. Copy and paste the URL for the website that you used to find the meaning of this word
6. Each Term is worth 3 points
1. 1 point for correct definition
2. 1 point for a meaningful sentence
3. 1 point for a URL
7. Raise your hand when you are done to be checked off

DO NOT PRINT THIS DOCUMENT UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO!!!

Monday February 7, 2011

Design and Drawing for Production:

Blocks 3 and 4

Lesson Directions: Please open a Microsoft word document and save the document as Your name: 1.2 vocabulary terms ( example: Mike1.2 terms)

Save this document in your "Z" drive

Next open your blue books to the 1.2 terms and do the following for each term:

1. Type the term ( 1 POINT)
2. Research on the web and find a definition for the term from the web and copy/paste that definition (2 points )
3. Copy/ paste the URL (web address) where you found your definition (1 point). Note: ANSWERS.COM WILL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE
4. Write what this term means to you in your own words or insert an image that that you made which clearly conveys the meaning. If you copy/paste an image from the web, you must also copy/paste the web address or you will earn NO CREDIT. You also must explain in your words what the image means (7 points).

There are 39 terms. You must complete all terms before the end of class.

When you are done please raise your hand so that the teacher can come and check your work.

Here is an example:

The term to be defined:Perspective sketch

Web definition: “The perspective sketch adds realism to the three-dimensional pictorial representation, since it represents the way the human eye inputs visual data. The key element in the perspective sketch is that parallel edge lines converge to a single point (called the vanishing point) along the horizon. If there is just one vanishing point, then it is called a 1-Pt. Perspective. If two sets of parallel edge lines converge to their respective vanishing points, then it is called a 2-Pt. Perspective. There is also the case of a 3-Pt. Perspective in which all vertical lines also converge to a point”

Web Address: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~rbarr/sketching/perspective.html.

What this term means to me: When I look down the hallway of the school, the hall seems to get smaller and smaller the further down the hall I look. If I take a ruler and line it up visually with the edge of the floor and the wall, I can almost see where the vanishing point is and where all the edges of the floor and ceiling will meet

GOOD LUCK!!

Foundations of Technology:
Block 5:

Lesson Directions: Continue to draw all the letters of the alphabet using Auto desk Inventor:
Make Rectangle that is 1.25 wide and 2.0 inches high. Draw letters inside this box. Make sure your letters touch all sides of the box.

Mr. Pierce's Energy class and thier vertical shaft wind turbines

From Locker to lock up reaction paper

October 25- 28, 2010

Design and Drawing for Production classes

Architecture Class

Instructions: Last week, your assignment was to read the Article: From locker to Lockup. You will use this article as the theme for your reaction paper

1. Please open a Microsoft word doc
2. Save the doc in your Z drive as your name locker to lockup (Example: Mike locker to lockup)

You are to write a minimum of 250 words giving your reaction to this article and the story of Phoebe Prince. Here are some questions to consider if you need help getting started:

• Should bullying be made illegal?
• What is the difference between bullying and harassment?
• What role did the media play in forming public opinion about this case?

What did the Online magazine Slate.com discovery about Phoebe? (click here and read)

How you will write this paper in gw3: You have 70 minutes to write, edit, and print your paper. At the same time, students will be presenting their product evolution power points. When a student is ready to present, you will be asked to stop writing, turn off your monitor, and listen to the speaker. When the speaker is finished, you will resume your paper.

DDP and Architecture Home Work for the week of October 18-22

Please read the article from the October 11, 2010 issue of Newsweek(click on the title): From Lockers to Lockup by Jessica Bennett

On Monday and/or Tuesday (October 25 and 26), you will be given 45 minutes in class to write a 250 word reaction paper to this article.

DDP Paper Airplane Problem

DDP Blocks 3 and 4

October 4, 2010

Problem statement: After watching the Flight of the Gossamer Condor, I realized that there was much I did not know about flight and how it works. My problem is that the lack of knowledge in this field is preventing me from full understanding of the challenges that the design team of the Gossamer Condor had to face.

Design Statement: Design, make, and test a paper airplane that can be adjusted or modified in order to fly as far as possible and stay in the air as long as possible.

Constraints:

Time:

• 1 class block to research, make and test
• 1 class block to do final test and submit documentation

Materials:

• 4 *sheets of recycled paper for researching different design solutions
• One Paper Clip
• Masking tape
• Strips of balsa wood (one piece 2” X 12”)
• One of the following (you must choose for your final design!)
• A sheet of card stock
• A sheet of vellum
• A sheet of Mylar
• A sheet of High quality printer paper

*all sheets are approximately 8.5” x 11”

Documentation: Your group is to produce one printed power point that follows the Project Lead the Way Design Process:

• Defining the problem
• Brainstorming
• Researching and Generating ideas
• Identifying criteria and specifying constraints
• Exploring possibilities
• Selecting an approach
• Developing a design proposal
• Making a model or Prototype
• Testing and evaluating the design using specifications
• Refining the design
• Creating or making it
• Communicating processes and results

DDP Home Work #2

Due on Monday September 27, 2010

Apple’s Shuffle: No one innovates better by Daniel Lyons (13, September, 2010 Newsweek, p. 22)

Instructions: Click on the link and read the article about Apple and its culture of innovation. Then come back to this blog and answer the questions below

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/01/apple-s-ipod-and-tv-updates-are-just-great-again.html

Email your answers to: jmcginty@scsd.us.

Makes sure you type your name and block that you take technology so it is easy to identify you.

1. The author (Daniel Lyons) refers to Apples Shuffle. The shuffle is an apple product but the story title means more than that and is also a play on words. What else does the author mean when he writes about Apples Shuffle? ( it has to do with how innovation works)
2. Who is Steve Jobs? Conduct a web search on Mr. Jobs and provide the following information:
1. His education

i. Where did he go to school?

ii. What degrees did he get if any?

iii. What did he study?

2. When did he form the company Apple?
3. What was the first product that Apple produced?

3. The author wonders what the “big three automakers” would be like if they innovated like apple does. What are the big three automakers (American car companies)? (List them)
4. What has happened to the big three automakers in the past 5 years? ( conduct a web search)
5. What does Steve jobs say about his Apple TV product?
6. What innovations have been made to Apple TV?
7. What sorts of qualities does the author refer to as he writes how innovation takes place in a company and with its products?
8. If you use an Apple product, please do the following (If you do not have one, please ask a friend who does or conduct a web search):
1. State the product
2. List 5 features of the product.
3. Next please take two of those features and briefly summarize how the feature has evolved (example: Size is a feature of the IPod Shuffle. How has it changed over time?)