collins+milgo+unit+4+what+can+i+do

whats up Miss.Mead designs: design specs. __ Design specs __ __ First design __ This is the first design that I created and from that moment I did not like it because it did not have anything to do with the environment so I decided to create a second design. I liked this design because it talked about the environmental issue which was deforestation I found that this was the best way of teaching my community about the environment and why we should conserve it __ what my animation needed to have: __ // 1. needed to teach the community about the environment // // 2. to answer the unit question // // 3. needed to be reasonable and had to make sense // // 4. at least had to have some comedy in it // // 5. had to be appealing to other people //

__ My plan: __ __ Week one: __ I had planned that in the first week I would do my investigation about the cutting down of the trees. The investigation included how we could stop deforestation. This was a good way of teaching the community on what would happen if we had no trees.

__ Week two: __ I planned to do the designs for my create stage all the drawings and all had to relate to my topic

__ Week three: __ For week I would have already started my create stage and would be half and by week four I would be finished with it

__ Week four: __

Do the evaluation and reflection of the whole unit; what I have learnt, what was difficult what did enjoy excreta.

__ My investigation __ I choose the environmental issue “cutting down of trees” because it was worldwide problem. It was widely known in most continents like Africa and many others. The people would cut down the trees for more space of their and others to start a business. In a decade a forest would be gone because of that. Some countries tried to fight but could stop. The policy had become that if a person chops down a tree he would have to plant two new ones and if he didn't he would charge or taken to prison for at least four months. This is and explanation to why we should not chop down the trees. Trees give out oxygen. Even because of them we have the rains. In short they maintain the ecological balance. If we would cut trees what is going to happen is that population won't stop growing but oxygen in the atmosphere will reduce. Another effect can be scarcity of food. And many other problems are attached to it such as less of rains will result in less water for irrigation. Less water for irrigation would result in less harvest which would again lead to less food and if this continues to happen for a long period of time then it might lead to famine type situations.

Trees have to breathe to live, same as us and every living thing on the planet. They breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. We breathe out carbon dioxide and breathe in oxygen. We've evolved around trees; they are the main things that give off oxygen. Without trees, we're not here. Cutting down trees takes away that oxygen. If you cut down a tree but plant two new ones that are fine. Trees are living things too.

The most important is trees are necessary for rain. Trees creates cold and humid atmosphere required for rain.

Second, when it rains, trees hold the water and does not allow to pass over soil which avoids floods.

Third, they provide food to all of livings.

If we continue to cut tree at larger extent then, it will definitely affect the rainfall and also will create a unstable atmosphere which will lend to destruction on/of earth.

When we cut down trees, we are taking a home away from animals.

We loosen the ground which mostly causes landslides.

Trees cause shade and without that shade the ground dries up faster and there is not as much nutrients . As you can read, cutting down the trees will bring us famine and because of this I choose this issue to help the community because some of them do not have this knowledge of the trees and whether. This was my final decision and for I had decided to make and animation. An animation would be the best for this because it would do most of the explanations for you and also it would be very fun for the community to watch. some info from www.wikipedia.com 



=__software that i used __= __ About flash mx. __

in this flash mx, you can create an animation by using frames. It is very easy to use because it has a help manual. You can make any animation you want to make any time. Also there are different times of making an animation and this are the ones: a framed animation and a tweened animation. A framed animation is an animation where you draw a an object and then got to the next frame and do the same but change the movements of the objects. When you do that with many frames and play it, it would look like the object is moving. And a tweened animation is an animation where you can see what you’re doing frame by frame or even see in one frame. The flash mx gives you layers so when you have done a mistake you can go back and reedit. The flash mx is the software that helps you to be more creative. create:screenshots of my create =my product=

__ **evaluation** __ I think the design that i choose was very reasonable and very important because the environmental issue was actually going on in some parts of the country even Malawi. Malawi also has difficulties with deforestation near Mzuzu. i think i communicated well and taught something to my community using computers because the environmental issue was a serious issue. in Kenya, people were evicted out of the forest because they were chopping down the trees and if Malawians who leave near the forests do not stop chopping down the trees, the government might do the same thing (evict the people living there) __improvements__ i thinks i would have done better if i would have managed my time well and also if i was focused in class. Also if i knew more about editing i think i would have done better.