This will be my final blog post. Being a part of help desk this year has been awesome. Mostly because it is very different from everything else. This week I played a coding game assigned to me. The object of the game is to write the correct code so that your hero will follow every step without dying. It took me a couple of embarrassing deaths to get the hang of it. Eventually I started blowing through it until the last level. I was so sure that I had the code right but at the end I was always 1 block off. I used the same code 2 more times thinking there would be a different outcome but no. I was completely stumped. I still haven't figured out how to do it without breaking the regulations of the level. Good thing I'm not going to college for computer programming. Next year I am going to UMass Dartmouth to study marine biology. I plan on traveling the world scuba diving coral reefs to help preserve them. I have very much enjoyed my year in Help Desk. Thank You Mr. Wong and farewell. Bobby.
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This week for online learning I completed my project. My project was about how much of an impact technology has during a natural disaster. My three main points of research were: How does social media help governments, aid organizations, individuals, and communities during a natural disaster? New Technology, and What is the role of mobile devices during and after a natural disaster in a developing region? I found a lot of new information and a lot of old information too. The most interesting thing I found though was some of the new technology being developed or currently being used. For example, micro mappers create maps that update and are sent to aid agencies so they can see affected areas during a natural disaster. Technology can be perceived as good or bad, but without it there would be a lot more deaths and missing people from natural disasters.
For our second week of online learning, in Help Desk, we were given multiple websites to chose from for our new projects. These projects are going to be about how technology affects us during big or small events. The website I chose was Google Applied Digital Skills. I chose this websites because it was better organized in my opinion. Within each website you are given topics to chose to do your presentations on. The topic I chose was Technology and Natural Disasters. When it comes to the environment I am a huge fan and I'm excited to learn how much we rely on technology during natural disasters. Next week I am going to begin researching my topic.
At first I was very excited for the school closure due to Corona virus. I was thinking I would have a nice relaxing two weeks off. Then two weeks turned into three weeks, then three weeks turned into seven weeks. Now, as a senior, I have school work until May fourth and I don't know what is going to happen from there. So far, this coronacation has been very boring. I can't go out with friends because of social distancing and there is only so much of my little brother that I can tolerate. Technology has been a good distraction. When I have nothing to do, which is a lot now, I just play on the X Box or go on my phone. I usually get bored of those fairly quickly so I just end up watching YouTube until it is time to go to bed. I like that we have classes online now. I have been looking for something to do. It is weird though every class is different with their form of attendance or way of teaching. Some classes require a video chat and others have it as an optional activity. It is tough to keep track of each but I think I'll have everything under control after the first week.
This week in Help desk we began our unit on drones. To start off we downloaded the PARROT app to control out Parrot drones. These drones are very light and nimble. The battery life for these drones is not very long. The longest one of the drones has lasted was about 12 minutes tops. The Parrot app offers incredible features and activities for your drone. Apart from actually flying the drone you can do a launch start. A launch start is when you can throw the drone into the air and it will start flying. While flying the drone you can make it go up, down, left, right, and it can rotate both ways. Also the drone can go forwards and backwards. Another special feature about the drone is you can have it do flips. An empty box will pop up on your phone and you can draw the type of flip you would like the drone to do. The flips drain the battery a lot quicker though.
This week we Dylan and I are working together on creating a pygame. Pygame is a website where you can code and create your own video game. There are tons of examples to go off of when creating your game. For example, there was an alien invasion game where you had to destroy the alien ships. With the game comes the code. It shows you every step on how the game was coded. You can use variations of other game codes to help create your own. Dylan and I are still in the brainstorming phase of our project, but we plan on using another game code and reverse engineering it. We are going to switch the code around to make it our own game. This code is for a bat and ball game. It is a simple code where you just try and hit a ball with a bat. What Dylan and I are going to do is change some aspects of the code. For example, where it says 30 cycles per second we might change it to 20 or 40 to change some aspects of the game.
Last week we went down to the pre-school to introduce a handful of different cool technology to the kids. There were about 30 kids in the classroom. We separated into three different groups with different pieces of technology. In his final days, Alex demonstrated how the Makey Makey works. He showed them how to connect bananas to wires to make a piano. From there the kids played with the makey makey and had fun making music with the bananas. My group demonstrated how the drop mix board went. If you look back on my other blog, I posted about the drop mix and how it works. The kids took turns putting cards on the board and making their own music. The final group demonstrated the robots. One of the robots was the Sphero. It's a small ball the rides around with manual control or code. Kids got to take turns driving the robots around the school. Picture above is the Sphero robot. Notice how it doesn't have any wheels. Pretty cool huh? For the past week and a half, we have been working on building model houses using SweetHome3D. SweetHome3D is a great website that has multiple features to help build anything you want. You could mansions or sheds or skyscrapers or a model for a building to run a company in. There are endless possibilities for what you can make using this website. With my group we built a very interesting version of a modern day house. We had four floors including the roof that have many different uses. We also have all the necessities including a kitchen, bedroom, and a bathroom. On the bottom floor we had a study, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Then when you go up the twisted stair case you enter a very old fashioned room with two arm chairs and a TV set. From there you can either go up the stairs or you can go into the bedroom. The bedroom is the most up to date room in the house. It has a fish tank, fireplace, elongated TV screen, King size bed and a nightstand. Behind the bed is a secret room only the owner knows about. It's where they you can keep all the people who you do not like. When you go up the stairs from the old fashioned room, you enter the man cave. It's the party room in the house. It has a bar, shiny couch, and a big TV in the center of the room. The house has everything you need to not only survive but actually have fun in your house. As you can see this website has everything you need to build whatever you want and possibly even your dream house.
http://www.sweethome3d.com/ First of all, help desk is a great class to take. I would recommend it to anybody who was thinking about taking it. We started off learning about drones. We flew drones in the library and outside in the parking lot. Then we started coding music. We began coding music on a program called sonic pi. After, we made music using a device called Drop Mix. So far, Drop Mix is my favorite part of the class. The Drop Mix board consists of 5 spaces for cards and it connects to any device. Each card is unique. The yellow microphone cards have songs on them. The red guitar cards have guitar beats. Green cards have piano beats. Blue cards have drum beats. We made tons of different beats and songs. Also we made our own twist to current popular songs.
Drop Mix songs - https://www.geek.com/games/the-best-dropmix-songs-weve-remixed-so-far-1717758/ |
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