Stykz

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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 we need to solve is how can the virtual environment be used to tell a story about our environments. **
 * Also, we have..... **
 * ** Create a Stykz animation. **
 * ** It should be at least 30 seconds. **
 * ** You need to create a story about our environment. **
 * ** Your story needs to have a plot that I can understand. **
 * ** I do not want your story to be gross, demented, or violent. That makes me sad, which will make your grade sad. **
 * ** This is due March 10 at the end of class. **

 2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? The design truly applies to the real world because it can be found and used in any imaginable vocation. For example, an engineer must use the design cycle to create robust bridges that with hold a lot of weight.

 3. What are virtual environments?  4. How have virtual environments changed our society? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Virtual environments change our society by perhaps giving us a perception of how to solve problems in the real world. They change the way life can be displayed. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 5. Explain the different environments that you live in: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 6. How can the virtual environment be used to tell a story about our environments? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A virtual environment can be used to tell a story about our environments by giving a real world example that teenagers face everyday such as violence, love, etc. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 7. What is Stykz? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Stykz is a program that allows you to create a video with styk figures. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Below are the requirements for this assignment:
 * Virtual environments are make believe environments that greatly resemble the real world, but contain virtual graphics. So, its basically a computer-simulated environment, whether that environment is a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world. **
 * 1. School- educational learning environment with socialism. **
 * 2. Virtual environment- we have different socializing websites online such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Myspace, etc. **
 * 3. Family/ Love environment- We have a to spend time with our family and fulfill all the responsibilities of a child. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Create a Stykz animation.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">It should be at least 30 seconds.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">You need to create a story about our environment.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Your story needs to have a plot that I can understand.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">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: 130%;">This is due March 10 at the end of class.

__<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Design Brief __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">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. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My partners and I are planning to create a video about normal behavior with saying no to drugs or some love story about teenagers. We are going to make it because 1. It's an awesome assignment and 2. we want people to be able to apply this Stykz video in their day to day lives. We are going to make it for two groups of ppl 1. Ms. Bradfield and all the teachers and 2. The students at Midvale. __<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Formulate a Design Specification __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Some limitations we may have is there is not much you can do with Stykz except for make the styk figures move. Also, it may be hard to specify the message we are trying to give. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 10. How will you "test" your project? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">We will test our project by watching it, and perhaps letting others watch it to get feedback.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">PLAN: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">11. What are your ideas for Stykz? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My ideas for Stykz are to create a video that can be used to tell a story about our environments. We may also include some sort of love affairs and gang issues. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 12. What idea did you choose for Stykz and why did you choose it? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The idea we chose for Stykz is the combination of saying no to drugs and solving love issues. We chose it because that's all we could think of besides demented violence. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 13. Type a brief explanation of your final plot below: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">So first we'll have some guys low riding down the halls carrying some type of drug(coolaid :D). Then they will ask some random kid if he wants some, and when he says no, they will slap him and start jumping around. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 14. Do your ideas meet all of the requirements? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Yes! :D <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 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: 130%;"> March 7: Take Skyward test and Answer questions.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> March 8: Work!!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> March 9: Work!!!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> March 10: Finish Design Folder (this wikispace) and Stykz assignment due.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">This is How You Will Be Graded: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Investigate: +15 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Plan: +15 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Create: +10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Attitude: +10 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 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: 150%;">TOTAL = 100