GO+GREEN!+Documentation

Monday-Thursday This week, we worked on our proposal. We changed our project multiple times and we ended up with something that we could both really enjoy if we do it in a fun and exciting way. Last week, I started on our PSA and Carina started to make a flyer that we are going to post around the school. Our project got a tenative approval and this next week (until Thursday) so this week, we have to get off to a good start so that the rest of the project can flow. I also started making our wikispace for our campagin, and it is coming along nicely. Friday We made a tittle graphic that is very eye catching and interesting. We aren't sure how to anchor our pages, and we would like to learn how to do this so that we don't have to make seperate pages, because we think that it would be easyier to navigate and get wheere you want to be if it was all on one page. Here is a copy of our tittle picture: We are aware that the text is kind of bright, but we really didn't want the words to distract from the pictures behind it because the are very important to our website.
 * __Week of 5.4.09__**

Monday Today, we figured out how to change the direction of text (for our flyer) and we still arent sure about how to snchor a page, but we are working on it. We distributed the flyers around the buliding we have left a link so that you can look at it too. We also started to work on our piece on the different outcome of Global Warming. They are very briefly covered because the point of our website is not to encourage you to belive in Global Warming, our purpose is to make sure that you know what it is and how it can affect our earth. Thursday Today, we tried to make anchors for our page, and it didn't go so well. We are going to try to find help on the internet tommorrow because we can't figure it out. We also made two moer flyers and we posted them up around the school. I have included screen prints of them below along with our first flyer. Our saving water flyer has three flyers on one paper because we are trying to make our flyers as enviromentaly friendly as possible. We also made sure that their were still some of our other flyers up around the school so that people know where to go (our website) for more information. We also added some information on Global Warming. We are also going to research global warming so that we can make a flyer on it. Flyer To see the full size fliers click this
 * __Week of 5.11.09__**

Friday Today, we worked on making new pages for our website. We couldn't figure out how to make anchors, so we have decided to try to make a drop dow menu instead. We also made another PSA on saving electricity. This is a video because we want to have a variaty of PSA's on our website so that it isn't boring.

Monday We are as far as we planned to be by this point because we have some audio PSA's and some writen PSA's which is pretty good, considering we have only been doing this project for a week and a half. We have problem solved, and decided that since we can't figure out how to do drop down menus, we made the home page look very nice and classy. We just added new pages and did the same thing with all our links that we did before for our wikispace in the 2nd quarter. So far this week, we don't have any questions, but we will let you know if we do. Going Green In Your Home I Flyers on going GREEN I Audio PSA I Why saving water is important I How to save water I Why is saving elecricity important? How to save electricity I What is Global warming? I How can global warming change our world? I Green Projects (the links are centered on our site) Tuesday Today we added a very simple page that comes before our home page. It has a loading bar and after about 5 seconds, a picture pops up and you click on this to go to our home page. This makes our home page seem cleaner because it is not really the intro to the site anymore, so it doesn't have to look all clean and white. Our home page can have the intro and the links on it and the page that comes before the homepage looks all neat and tidy and makes us seem like we know what were talking about and as if we are experianced. Thursday Today we finished our homepage and we made it work. The animation is a little shaky, but it doesn't look bad. We worked on our global warming video PSA, and it is coming along very nicely. Once we finish animating it, we are going to narrate it with our voices so that it will sound more serious and deadly. We are also going to see if it would look better if we were to make a page for PSA's and then add links to the different types of PSA's (video, print, audio). We figured out how to make our pictures transparent in something other than paint, but it took a really long time (almost all of class). We are going to put this picture onto here and our website once we finish it. I linked all of the flyers see below) to eachother. Friday Today, we evaluated where we are in our process. **We think that we are doing pretty well, because when we run into a problem, we find a way to solve it.** **We are as far as we want to be so far** because we have a video PSA that we used for an introduction to our global warming page. We have two video PSA's and that it pretty good so far. I hope that we make another one in the days to come. We also have three print PSA's. **We are going to** make another video PSA and another audio PSA and then we are going to spend the rest of our time doing projects and telling our readers how to do it. This will go under a page on our website called Green projects and when you click on it, it will take you to a menu that lists all of the projects and has a picture of the project next to it. Then you can click on the word or the picture to find out how to do the project. **We have** also recently changed our link bar so that the pages are more orginized and easier to navigate through. Going Green In Your Home I Flyers on going GREEN I Audio PSA I Why saving water is important I Why is saving electricity important? I Global Warming I Green Projects
 * __Week of 5.18.09__**

Monday was memorial day: no school Tuesday Today we took videos around the school of different usess of water. **We are going to** use them to create another video PSA. We are going to also create another audio PSA. today i also gathered the information for the audio PSA. It is going to be on electricity. **We made** a citation page and we are going to make sure that we cite everything so that at the end of this project, we will have everthing cited and not have to worry about rushing at the end of the quarter. So far, we are as far as we want to be. Once we finish our citation page, we will be almost done. We put together the video and **we learned** how to add music from youtube into a windows movie maker project. **We want to learn** how to put the video on wikispaces. **We understand** now how to add animations onto wikispaces. We also added a picture to our electricity page that reflects that you can be green while using electricity, you just have to not waste energy. Our project is going pretty well. We had a major brianstorming session today and we have this great idea for our video PSA. We will post it here once we finish it. We are going to use this video to guilt people into not wasting water because we make it seem so awful. This is a technique that we see advertising companies use. The end script looks like this: (- indicates new title slide) -Water -Every living thing needs it -From humans -To animals -To plants -So stop wasting it -Help save the earth Friday Today we finished our video. **We understand** how to make clips go backwards, but it takes way too long so we found something else to put there instead. You have to take a picture using the camera at the bottom right corner of the viewing screen. Then you go back a frame, click the camera button, and then click save. This is a very time consuming process, but it works in the end. We didn't want to do this because when its done, it doesn't flow, it changes and then pauses and then changes and then pauses. I have posted the screen print of this to help you.
 * __Week of 5.26.09__**
 * Thursday**

Monday Today we worked on finishing up our website. Specifically the saving electricity page and the saving water page. We made our website look neither. We learned how to make effects on our video. And also publish it.... here it is.... media type="youtube" key="nq092HGQkcw" height="344" width="425" Tuesday Today we made a page for our project Eggshell seed starters. **We understand** that the project is due on Friday and we are feeling pretty comfertable with this. **We have** most of our project done. **We only** have to finish another project and then another Audio PSA. We finished the electricity pages and now when you go there, you can watch a video and then click to find out ways on how to save electricity. media type="youtube" key="_XbM1EmahhM" height="344" width="425" Thursday Today we didn't get a lot done because our class was only a half an hour long. Carnina wasn't here because she left early. **We understand** that we only have 1 day after today to work so we are almost done, we just have 1 more page to do. We have to make sure that we get that page done and then we will be finished. **Our project didn't change** from what we had original planned besides getting rid of a few pages that didn't work so we got rid of them.**We ran into a few problems**, but all of them were very minor like when we couldn't agree on a font or a color for our videos, but nothing major. **We discovered** how to put animated vidoes onto wikisoaces. **We also figured out** how to make videos go backwards, even though we didn't actually end up doing this because it took too long.**We wouldn't do anything different** because our project turned out well. **Our advice would be** too make sure that you choose a topic that you are really interested in because otherwise you won't enjoy it and you will get really bored. Friday Our final documentation can be reached here: GO GREEN wikispace Our final product can be reached here: To visit our Campagin page, please visit: http://mcmake.wikispaces.com/GO+GREEN%21-+Susie+and+Carina
 * __Week of 6.1.09__**
 * We changed** our home page to a different picture so that it looks cleaner. People are more likly to look at your website and to want to actually read your website if it is cleaner and easier on the eyes and looks interesting. **We put** some pictures up on the electricity page and we made sure that we cited them. Here is the electricity page 's video that is supposed to get you interested and want to learn more about how to save electricity.