The Setup

The reason being that the room had to be so dark, was to be able to see any other light such as a light bulb, be more visible. 

What was done to make sure that the room was completely dark was, the windows at the front of the room was covered up because on the other side of that window, there was light showing. Once that was done, we then proceeded to turn off the light.

Just A Red Light Bulb

When the red light bulb was turned on in the dark room, the nearby objects was also turning red because the light was reflecting upon it.

So because the nearby objects turned red because the red light was hitting it, what this is proving is that the light travels in any direction from a light source.  (Except down because in a light bulb, something is blocking it and preventing the light to go down.)

Single Red Light, Hole, And Screen Experiment

In this experiment, the 3 essential components were the smart board (screen), 1 hole, and light.

The thing that was capable of going through the hole was, light.

When the light was held on the top-left corner, the spot that light would appear on the screen was on the bottom right corner.

What this experiment proved about how light traveled was that, you are capable of controlling on where the light goes. I say this because, if you were to isolate the light but have only 3 holes, then that will allow the light travel through those holes only. 

Picture, Hole, And The Screen Experiment

In this experiment, the 3 essential components were the smart board (screen), 1 hole, and the picture that would show a letter.

The picture was of a letter F and since that was used, what I saw on screen behind the hole was light.

The picture was mirrored and that’s because, when the image would appear on the screen it would show the letter but upside down.

Size Of The Hole Experiment

Now we take it a bit step further and we increased the size of the hole and when doing so, the image got more blurry.

The image also got more brighter when the hole increased. 

Distance Between The Hole And The Screen Experiment 

Instead of doing an image, we did ars instead. When the screen was closest to the the hole, the amount of bars that I was able to see were about 3.

When the screen was farthest from the hole, I was able to see almost all of the bars.

Designing A Camera

Since we did these experiments, we will now be making a pinhole camera. Based on the experiments, I should be using a small hole in order to achieve the sharpest image.

Also, my camera should be able to capture everything that I want it to capture so, in order for this to happen I must put the film far back in order to have that wide-angle. 

          In our foundation design class, we did a small lesson where we did the gallery walk. The way that the gallery walk work was that, we were in a small group of 3 or 4 and we would go to our own design work and critique it. We were given a paper that had these four categories- Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Judgement.  Today, I will be looking at one of my classmates typeface design but as well as talking about my own feedback and how this will better help me in the future and help improve for MP3.

When critiquing my classmates work, I used this worksheet with four categories on it which are- Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Judgement. For description, In my classmates work, the way that he did his design had many sharp edges and as well as, had gaps for every letter. For analysis, His design did follow up every letter with the gaps and sharp edges as well as all the letters are fully completed. For Interpretation, The letters may have seem to be futuristic in a way because of the gaps. Finally for judgement, The letters in all were very good in my eyes and he really did a wonderful job in making sure to follow the design in each letter. 

For my feedback, The way it went was that my teammates just ask me a bunch of questions such as, How did you come up with your design? Is this how you wanted it to look? Are you completed? And many more great questions. Also just me explaining my design. My design was more based off a gothic theme and I tried my best to stick with it and there was a certain design that I made sure to follow up in every letter. 

The gallery walk lesson and just the feedback could help me improve in MP3 because the feedback that was said could be in MP3 and at least now I know how I could do it and use that feedback to help me in whatever case I’ll be working on in MP3. 

       During this unit we were working our way up to the final performance task. In order to complete this performance task we used the 5 D’s, our core values and even how our collaboration in this project helped us finish it.

How Did Our 5 D’s Help Us In Our Performance task?

    While working to make our way into the performance task, we used the 5 D’s to help us in order to complete this performance. How did it help us? You may ask. Well allow me to explain to you why and how it helped us complete this performance task.

Design Thinking Reflection–

Discover–

• The way that “Discover” was used during this process was by the fact that we noticed that many students don’t exactly know where the main office is or where Ashley is. So, we discovered that we must make a map of maker to help students find their way through the maker academy.

Define–

• During this process we were able to use “Define” to help us as well. The way it helped us was by identifying the criteria we need and describing them for some good map needs. 

Design–

• How did we proceed to make a maker map for anyone needs? Well, some of the things that we did to help us was identifying the knows and needs to know about the map. Then, we were able to explore the school and ask many questions to staff members to get any information we needed to be able to continue with the map. Next, we made a prototype that’ll help us in the future with making our final map. Lastly, we made a final project that we made of maker.

Develop–

• During this step of the design thinking process, from the first prototype, us as a group were able to discover any flaws or highlight to be able to meet our criteria even better. 

Deliver–

• This final step of design thinking process was our final map of maker which is the photo at the very top.

Core Values Reflection–

During this process in making of the maker map, I was able to use two core values which were Empathy & Curiosity. What do they mean? How did I use them? You may ask, well allow me to explain….

Empathy– Helping or disagreeing /agreeing to ideas to help one another out or feel for each other to understands one’s opinion or statement the other has claimed.

A time where I used Empathy was that I was able to assist Hayden in adding stuff and understanding her explanation on why it was needed to be added and whether I were to agree or disagree.

Another example can be used outside of class such as, when I was able to assist my sister in her project and we both shared off many opinions and why they should be added in her powerpoint. She nailed that project.

Curiosity– Exploring different ideas, options, or even opinions/statements. Its to also be open minded about any ideas that come to also explore those too.

A time where I used Curiosity was when I was able to look through my planner, and look at the staffs answer, and also the knows and needs to know and explore those ideas to see if there were anything that I could add that would be useful in the map.

This core value can be used outside as well and an example of these is when I learned about the LGBTQ community and was learning about the many things among it and I was pretty amazed about it.

Collaboration & Communication Reflection–

During the completion of this map, I was able to collaborate with others in my group to help complete the map of maker. An example of this moment was when we were helping/adding onto the “Pro Tips” Section of the map because we wanted to be able to add more information that’ll help any future maker.