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U N I T 4 W H A T C A N  I D O ?

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=<span style="color: #7ef187; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 300%;">What Can I Do? =

= How can I use computer technology to help the community? =

PRODUCT IDEAS

 * Create a website
 * Create a video
 * Create a PowerPoint
 * Create a digital brochure
 * Create a game
 * Combine a few of the above

TOPIC IDEAS

 * LSPCA
 * Orphanage
 * Pollution and disease awareness
 * Volunteer group (sing up sheets, activity list (clean up, helping children, helping build, ect.))

MY IDEA FOR FINAL
I think in my final I will create a game about either pollution and disease awareness (ideas shown later) or to raise awareness of animal abuse and link it to the LSPCA.

Pollution and disease awareness
For this game I would create a stick figure avoiding different forms of disease that each, uniquely effect his performance. He would have to heal himself by consuming the right medication for each disease. As he is doing so he must be collecting a certain amount of trash as he excels in levels. He can then sell the trash in the main menu for a certain price depending on the item, with this money he can buy some medication to store in his backpack. The higher scores he gets, the more trash must be collected each round (round time – 10 minutes). Every time a player dies, one the home screen a pile of bodies will grow, each time the home screen will mention a large crisis that occurred due to waste, radiation or disease. The background will be between a few different locations (dessert, island, city, farm jungle, ocean, ect) to show how much pollution and disease is around the world. The same and only the amount of trash needed and dropped will increase. If you reach the amount of trash before time is up you may get some money as a reward depending on how much free time you get.

LSPCA
In this game you are working for the LSPCA and the goal is to find and save as many animals from an abandoned house. It will be a puzzle game where you must search for clues and items to free the dogs and avoid getting caught by the crazy land lord who abuses the dogs. This game would be more of a scary, sinister game with an exaggerated feel of evil that may be inflicted upon some poor dogs. This game would probably have to be more graphic so I would have to look at how to do that and make the game much less complicated. Or, as Mr. Mead suggested to me, make it a small, simple child game on how to care for a pet. I will chose my game once I look more into the software and coding needed.

SURVEY
What plot do you prefer?

A) Pollution and disease awareness
For this game I would create a stick figure avoiding different forms of disease that each, uniquely effect his performance. He would have to heal himself by consuming the right medication for each disease. As he is doing so he must be collecting a certain amount of trash as he excels in levels. He can then sell the trash in the main menu for a certain price depending on the item, with this money he can buy some medication to store in his backpack. The higher scores he gets, the more trash must be collected each round (round time – 10 minutes). Every time a player dies, one the home screen a pile of bodies will grow, each time the home screen will mention a large crisis that occurred due to waste, radiation or disease. The background will be between a few different locations (dessert, island, city, farm jungle, ocean, ect) to show how much pollution and disease is around the world. The same and only the amount of trash needed and dropped will increase. If you reach the amount of trash before time is up you may get some money as a reward depending on how much free time you get.

B) LSPCA
As Mr. Mead suggested to me, make it a small, simple child game on how to care for a pet. Where you select and edit your breed, sex and color of a dog or cat. You then must tend to its needs such as feeding, grooming, loving and training your pet. The idea of this was to develop a love or compassion for animals so young children would not only be more knowledgeable of how to take care of a pet but they would hopefully be more willing to help for the animals.

Results –

A – IIIIIIII B – IIIII

WINNING GAME – A

<span style="color: #9aee3f; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 230%;">Scratch reviews I looked at before using it

"Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">VIDEOS I WATCHED TO HELP ME - links

<span style="color: #ce8cfd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79UFmwUNkDo <span style="color: #ce8cfd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHcTRzaB2Hg <span style="color: #ce8cfd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXaKGFL4s1A <span style="color: #ce8cfd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoGkwV7D9c <span style="color: #ce8cfd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKFHbaXj0r0 <span style="color: #ce8cfd; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79UFmwUNkDo

<span style="color: #1af496; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 290%;">FINAL GAME (link to site)

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10610945/

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<span style="color: #40f742; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">DUE DATES

<span style="color: #7d8ff7; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Investigation - Monday 6th May 2013 <span style="color: #7d8ff7; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Design - Monday 13th May 2013 <span style="color: #7d8ff7; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Create - Monday 27th May 2013 <span style="color: #7d8ff7; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Evaluate - Friday 31st May 2013