Gloria+Dzanjalimodzi+Unit+4

Unit 4

What Can I Do?

Unit Question: How Can I Contribute A Solution To A Problem Facing My Country?

The Problem

What can I produce that will lead towards a solution currently facing my country.

Deadlines

Lesson Plan
 * **Task** || **Deadline** ||
 * Investigation || 3rd May 2013 ||
 * Design || 9th May 2013 ||
 * Plan || 13th May 2013 ||
 * Create || 24thMay 2013 ||
 * Evaluate || 28th May 2013 ||

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 * Lesson/Time || Task To Be Completed ||
 * Mon 29th April 1 Lesson || Continue Research on issues involving/related to human rights in Malawi. ||
 * Tue 30th April 1st Lesson || Evaluate the best ways of presenting a solution between websites, presentations and databases. ||
 * Tue 30th April 2nd Lesson || Determine the product type to create for the solution to the problem. ||
 * Mon 6th May 1 Lesson ||  ||
 * Tue 7th May Lesson 1 ||
 * Mon 13th ||
 * Tue 14th ||
 * Mon 20th ||
 * Tue 21st ||
 * Mon 27th ||
 * Tue 28th || Start Evaluation in class... ||

Investigation

The Problem:

The Malawi government after careful talks with the foreign powers have come to a conclusion that most peopHuman Rights is not fully p

What the problem means to me

As a Malawian I feel sympathetic towards Malawians who are suffering today because of not being aware of human rights these days. Its a dream of mine to work with human rights, women's right and female empowerment in Africa this dream being inspired by the struggles of my country.

=**Research**= The best way to start was taking a look at the Constitution of the Republic of Malawi more specifically CHAPTER IV HUMAN RIGHTS Because this was most relevant to my problem.

CHAPTER IV HUMAN RIGHTS

Section 15, Section 16, Section 18, Section 19, Subsection 3, Section 20, Subsection 1 Section 22, Subsection 2, Section 22, Subsection 4, Section 22, Subsection 7, Section 22, Subsection 8, Section 23, Subsection 1, Section 23, Subsection 4a, Section 23, Subsection 4b

After reading these section of the Human rights chapter of the Malawian constitution I found out that many of the laws written aren't followed by many Malawians in the country, even when such cases are brought up and should be protected by the constitution they aren't. Malawi had set laws for itself that aren't followed or contradict themselves to the constitution. The problem with Human Rights in Malawi is the PEOPLES Moral and Cultural are against the law.

References:

"WOMENS RIGHTS | Malawi." WOMENS RIGHTS | Malawi. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2013. http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/womens-rights/wr-africa/malawi.html

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"Malawi Suspends Laws against Homosexual Relationships." BBC News. BBC, 11 May 2012. Web. 06 May 2013. [] = = =**Design Brief**=

I am going to make an interactive game that gets through the basics of human rights and teaches the players their rights as well as others'.

Game Making Programs:

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Digital image. //Google.com //. Scratch, n.d. Web. 7 May 2013. .

The picture above is a screen shot of scratch; one of the game making programs I did research on. On the far left side of the screen shot is the "tool bar". This is where you get your tools for programming your game, the code fragments these are called blocks. These are broken up in different sections: Motion; codes that control the motion of the sprite, Control: these are for "activating the sprites actions, for example If you drag the code when green flag clicked over codes of actions the following actions will only happen when clicked. In the middle of the screen shot you can see columns named "scripts, costumes, sounds". On the far right of the screen shot what you are seeing is a scene in a kids game. Above you have a fish and a background and below it on the far left is the is the "Stage". And next to the stage are the "Sprites". Sprites are what you call "Characters" if you were to simplify it.

Kids Ruby


=**Specification**=


 * **Must have a "presenter" a guide through the game**
 * **Needs to address human rights issues in Malawi**
 * **Needs to inform the player of their rights**
 * **Need to inform the player of other peoples rights**
 * **Needs to have a "quiz" at the end of it to test the viewers knowledge on human rights**

=**Testing**=


 * ** To test my product I will have one of my classmates try it out and then give them a questionnaire so they can them give me some feed back. **
 * ** Also give the product to a person outside of class and give them the questionnaire so they can test it. **

These tests are planned to check if my product fits the specifications.

I'm going to be testing if the product really teaches something about Human Rights.

=** DESIGN **=

Evaluation

In this project my aim was to make a trivia game that would educate people on human rights in Malawi and hopefully better their understanding of their rights. I first started out looking at the current issues facing Malawi and Human Rights caught my eye because it has been a problem facing Malawi for quite a long time. I had the option of making a video, website, database or a game. I chose a game because I wanted to try out a new thing I’ve never done before and for my chosen problem this seemed the best solution to solving it. I surfed the internet looking for articles in Malawi concerning human rights in Malawi and if anything is being done to solve it. I also learned that some people are not aware of other people’s rights as well as theirs. My game was aimed at having an almost solution to this by hints of spreading awareness to this issue to other people living in Malawi even if it doesn’t affect them they can still make a slight contribution. I decided in my specification that my game must have a “presenter” or host throughout the game to interact with the game’s player to keep it fun and interesting. The game also needed to address human rights in Malawi. That was what the entire trivia idea was about. At first I only thought of designing a game that would just ask the player questions concerning human rights aiming at what the player knows rather than thinks. In my first design/game ideas I realized that just creating a game that asked questions wasn’t really all that helpful to the player as I wanted it to be because just asking questions and giving out points to the player wouldn’t tell them about people’s rights and theirs it would just give them a score. After looking at these different flaws from my first ideas I decided that that the second set of ideas should have information in it. What I chose to create was a bit more complex than what I had in mind in the first place. This time I decided that the play would go through something like an adventure. The game had “characters” in it that would interact with the player. The first “stage” of the game involved one of my characters; Justice, giving an introduction to what is going on in the game and then switching to different scenes in the game. Justice then tells the player about a mini test the player is going to take on human rights. This was where I made changes, instead of having the player just take a mini test I decided they were going to read some things on human rights, key words that will be questioned on in the mini game and articles on human rights issues in Malawi. After talking about the mini test Justice then disappears and the game changes to a library background. In the library the player is introduced to a new character Bookworm. Bookworm was a fun way in my game in which I wanted the reading materials to be presented to the game’s player. These reading materials were to help with the mini test the player was going to take later on in the game. I assume that the player of the game would read thought the reading materials carefully to then answer the questions in the mini test. It was like a memory test.

After having decided the product I wanted to create, I then began to create it. The first thing I did was refer to my ideas. In terms of characters and scenes I didn’t know what or who to create first at first since scratch was a new program to me that I had never used before. Before making the final, final creation I did a little testing of scratch to get familiar with controls. When I started creating my game I decided it would be more logical to start with what the player is going to be put through in the game. I didn’t make written down exact plan for the creation process first hand because I find it hard to plan a creation process for what is going to happen ahead of time. I was then planning on working backwards from my game because that would be the reverse in which I created the game in.