Ahmed Al Saadi
Mr. Ray Jones
Information Technology
November 25, 2008
Evaluation
Flat Class Room project
The flat class room project was a requirement that we had to do this year. We were first introduced to this project around mid September, for the first four weeks we where signing in to the ‘Wiki’ and the ‘Ning’ and after that we watched videos of Michael Freemen the author of the book ‘The world is flat’ and that’s what our project is based on. We also watched the videos of students from the past years. After watching those videos we had to summaries two videos that we liked and why we liked them. To be honesty I had no idea of what we are doing or what we are going to do but I did what I was asked to do and hoped to get it going in to the project. After Mrs. Lindsey talked to use and explained more about the project and assembled the teams and the groups that we are going to work in I started understanding. We had to work with other students from other school around the world, I thought that would be a great thing to do, where we could meet people from the USA to Bangladesh, that was a great project and that I would enjoy, but from experience from last year’s digital citizenship project that was similar but smaller we had lots of difficulties with editing the web pages. We were assigned to group 1 though 11 then each group is divided in to three subsections A, B and C, those letters tell us what we are requested to do for a video that we will produce at the end like for example telling a story about you topic or simply explain your topic. in those groups we had to work on producing a web page on the wiki about our topic in my case it’s the World Wide Web or in other words the internet. The World Wide Web is group 2 then I was in group A so I am requested to create a video telling a story about the internet.
The first week in to the project I was sort of lost, I see everyone sitting on ‘Facebook’ and ‘Youtube’ and not doing work so I thought that we should not do anything so I asked Mr. Jones he told me that we should start with the video plan and investigation, so I told everyone that asked some started working on the plan and some ignored and cared on with what they were doing. After completing my plan and investigation which did not take long I posted it on my blogger.I missed around two lessons because I left to Cairo for the ISAC volleyball competition, but as soon as I came back I was focused and ready to complete what I missed. For around a week all I did was add information on our group’s web page and sending and receiving discussions from the people in my group in relationship with the project and editing the web page. I faced lots of difficulties but at the end everything was resolved.
For one of our lessons Mrs. Lindsey came to our class to let us that we have to send an outsourced video to other people and also post up our request for an outsourced video on a page where everyone would be posting up there request and that’s where we would be choosing what video we want to create and send to a person. I placed my request as soon as I learned about posting up the request that was on the 9th of November 2008, the next lesson and check if anyone has responded; it’s not that my request has not been responded to, but nowhere to be found. Someone has deleted it by accident or on purpose but that we don’t know, so I reposted it the second time. I come back the next lesson and again my request is not there, for a second I thought that I was doing it wrong so I asked Mr. Jones to post it up for me but he was busy so I asked Mrs. Lindsey instead and she reposted it on the spot, and the next lesson it was gone. Then I knew it was on purpose but I cannot do anything about it but tell Mr. Jones. So I reposted it up again and I also posted it up on the ning where I was sure no one our see but I had to. This time the request was not deleted (thank god) finally but no one reposed so I had to carry on filming. After I finished filming I posted my video up on the ning and the wikiAlthough I did not have an outsourced video since no one reposed to my request I was very happy with what I created and accomplished throughout this project. I learned a lot during this project, things that would help me in the future like never wait for anybody else and never give up, keep trying and maybe you we succeed. After completing my project all I have to do is thank Mr. Jones for his time and hard work helping me in completing my video, and wait for the teachers, the judges and the whole world to look at my video and see if it is good enough to be one of the top ten videos.
Mr. Ray Jones
Information Technology
November 25, 2008
Evaluation
Flat Class Room project
The flat class room project was a requirement that we had to do this year. We were first introduced to this project around mid September, for the first four weeks we where signing in to the ‘Wiki’ and the ‘Ning’ and after that we watched videos of Michael Freemen the author of the book ‘The world is flat’ and that’s what our project is based on. We also watched the videos of students from the past years. After watching those videos we had to summaries two videos that we liked and why we liked them. To be honesty I had no idea of what we are doing or what we are going to do but I did what I was asked to do and hoped to get it going in to the project. After Mrs. Lindsey talked to use and explained more about the project and assembled the teams and the groups that we are going to work in I started understanding. We had to work with other students from other school around the world, I thought that would be a great thing to do, where we could meet people from the USA to Bangladesh, that was a great project and that I would enjoy, but from experience from last year’s digital citizenship project that was similar but smaller we had lots of difficulties with editing the web pages. We were assigned to group 1 though 11 then each group is divided in to three subsections A, B and C, those letters tell us what we are requested to do for a video that we will produce at the end like for example telling a story about you topic or simply explain your topic. in those groups we had to work on producing a web page on the wiki about our topic in my case it’s the World Wide Web or in other words the internet. The World Wide Web is group 2 then I was in group A so I am requested to create a video telling a story about the internet.
The first week in to the project I was sort of lost, I see everyone sitting on ‘Facebook’ and ‘Youtube’ and not doing work so I thought that we should not do anything so I asked Mr. Jones he told me that we should start with the video plan and investigation, so I told everyone that asked some started working on the plan and some ignored and cared on with what they were doing. After completing my plan and investigation which did not take long I posted it on my blogger.I missed around two lessons because I left to Cairo for the ISAC volleyball competition, but as soon as I came back I was focused and ready to complete what I missed. For around a week all I did was add information on our group’s web page and sending and receiving discussions from the people in my group in relationship with the project and editing the web page. I faced lots of difficulties but at the end everything was resolved.
For one of our lessons Mrs. Lindsey came to our class to let us that we have to send an outsourced video to other people and also post up our request for an outsourced video on a page where everyone would be posting up there request and that’s where we would be choosing what video we want to create and send to a person. I placed my request as soon as I learned about posting up the request that was on the 9th of November 2008, the next lesson and check if anyone has responded; it’s not that my request has not been responded to, but nowhere to be found. Someone has deleted it by accident or on purpose but that we don’t know, so I reposted it the second time. I come back the next lesson and again my request is not there, for a second I thought that I was doing it wrong so I asked Mr. Jones to post it up for me but he was busy so I asked Mrs. Lindsey instead and she reposted it on the spot, and the next lesson it was gone. Then I knew it was on purpose but I cannot do anything about it but tell Mr. Jones. So I reposted it up again and I also posted it up on the ning where I was sure no one our see but I had to. This time the request was not deleted (thank god) finally but no one reposed so I had to carry on filming. After I finished filming I posted my video up on the ning and the wikiAlthough I did not have an outsourced video since no one reposed to my request I was very happy with what I created and accomplished throughout this project. I learned a lot during this project, things that would help me in the future like never wait for anybody else and never give up, keep trying and maybe you we succeed. After completing my project all I have to do is thank Mr. Jones for his time and hard work helping me in completing my video, and wait for the teachers, the judges and the whole world to look at my video and see if it is good enough to be one of the top ten videos.
