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Technology – Quiz – Essay (100 points)
November 28-29, 2011

Platform Design Challenge:

Use the questions below as a guide to writing an essay of at least one page about the platform design challenge. The essay should use size 12 font, be single spaced, with a double space between paragraphs. First write your essay in Word (make sure you save your Word file), then post it to the comments section (where it says “No Comments”) of the blog at:

http://weblogs.pbspaces.com/mrgoldstein/2011/11/22/technology-quiz-november-28-29-2011/

(There is a shortcut in your class folder to get to the above link).

• Introduction – What is the design process? Why is it important? What are the steps of the design process? (Defining the problem, gathering information, developing possible solutions, selecting and refining the best solution, building a model of the solution, testing the solution, evaluating the solution and communicating the solution).

• Defining the problem:

o What was the design challenge? What materials were did you have to use for the structure? What were your thoughts when you first heard what the challenge was—did you think it was possible?

• Gathering information:
o What were sources of information you used to help you figure out a solution?
(The teacher, the design packet, the members of your group, other groups).

• Developing Possible solutions:

o Describe the four ideas you sketched for your platform.
o What structural shapes did you use for each?
o What were the possible advantages and disadvantages of each idea?

o Which idea did you choose? Why?

• Building the platform:
o What challenges did you encounter as you built the platform?

o How did you video the building of the platform?
o How long did it take to build the platform?

• Testing the solution:
o Describe your testing of the platform? How did you feel as you placed the weight on the platform? Were other people watching? Did you think the platform would hold? How many textbooks did you stack on your platform? What was the total weight? Describe what the collapse of your platform looked like (the books falling, the crushed platform, the sounds).

• Evaluating the solution:
o How well did your platform work? What were the strengths of your platform? What were the weaknesses? Were you able to improve upon your first idea? How?

• Communicating the solution:
o Making an intro video -
Describe how you made your into video (be specific). What did you include in the intro video? If you had problems with shooting the video, describe the problems you had. What did you do to fix the problems?

o Filming the making of your platform –
Describe how you shot the making of your platform (Did you use a tripod? Did you shoot on continuous mode? Video mode?)
o Filming the testing of your platform – Describe.
o Describe how you edited your video in Windows Movie Maker (titles, sequencing clips, trimming clips as needed, fast motion effects, credits, music).

• Teamwork: How well did your group work together as a team? What were the benefits of working as a team? What problems did you encounter working as a team? How did you work out your problems?

• Write a conclusion—what did you learn from this project?

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