Monday B-Day 1st/5th Periods (October 30, 2006)
Tuesday A-Day 1st /4th periods (October 31, 2006)
Due Today: 1) individual design for starting city on paper and 2) personal vision statement in Google docs with teacher as collaborator (or on paper).
G.Q. for Today’s Class
- How will we divide the responsibilites on our team?
- How will we choose the best design to begin SimCity?
- In what ways does the design map meet the basic human needs and wants?
- In what ways does the design map consider the design brief?
- How do we apply the concepts of M.A.S.H. to better understand our design goals?
Homework Due Wednesday/Thursday (use Google Docs or bring evidence of work):
Start working on the planning stage portfolio. Consider the bulleted items below and bring questions and concerns back to the group on Wednesday/Thursday for a team meeting:
- allocation of resources
- Thoroughly explain how each of the seven resources of technology will be used in the creation of the product (SimCity disk).
- ordering of tasks
- Create a well thought out series of tasks that logically guide the process of making the SimCity contest disk from start to finish at the creation stage.
- time management
- Create an annotated calendar or Gantt Chart that includes when, where and by whom all the tasks of the creation stage will be done.