Elderly_Reflection

Please do up a personal reflection for Semester 2 - The Elderly Challenge

1) What have you learnt?

2) What are the difficulties encountered?

3) How did you overcome the difficulties?

Link your reflection based on the 10 Cs.

Please post your work on your personal ADMT Blog latest by 16th Oct 2010.
Copy and paste the link of your post at the comment below.

T4WK2_Reflection

Answer the following questions on your personal ADMT Blog.
Name the title of the blog: Reflection - Prototype.
Copy and paste the link of your post in the comment below.

1. What are the difficulties that you have encountered during the process?
2. How do you overcome the difficulties encountered?
3. What are the 2 key takeaways for this lesson?

Model and Journal Rubrics

Please refer to Model and Journal Rubrics below.

Deadline: Term 4 Week 3.

Click on the following if you are not able to view the rubrics.

http://admts109.blogspot.com/2010/08/assessment-3-rubrics-for-journal-final.html

Multi - Media Presentation Rubrics

Please refer to the multimedia presentation rubrics. You are to start preparing for the multi - media presentation during the 1 week Sept Holidays. Take note that the presentation should be self run with the necessary recording , music, animation or any other forms of suitable medium. The purpose of the multi media presentation is to convince the audience of the need of the product, the situations in which the product is designed to be used, most importantly how is the product being used in the situation/various situations. It is up to your creativity how you want to present your work. Keep the duration of your work between 1-3 minutes.

ADMT Presentation

The first 5 students in the class register are to be prepared for presentation after the test on the 24th August 2010. Please refer to the following for the assessment rubrics as mentioned in class.

ADMT Sketching Test - Orthographic Projection

Reminder
First Angle Orthographic Projection test would be next Tuesday, 24th August. It would be similar to the trial test that you had this week.

Date: 24th August 2010
Time: 230pm (During ADMT lesson)

Things to bring
MacBook fully charged/enough to last for at least 20mins.
Mechanical Pencil, Ruler and Eraser.

T3WK7 - elearning week

Please click on the following link for the task.

http://admtelearning.blogspot.com/

T3Wk5 Ergonomics and Anthropometry (The Elderly Challenge)

After what have been discussed in class about Ergonomics and Anthropometry,
look at the Elderly Challenge Project that you are working on.

Ask yourself the following questions:

1) Who are you designing for? Give a brief description of the target group.
2) What is the product that you are designing?
3) What are the design considerations when designing products for the elderly?

Use the Step 1 -4 guide for Anthropometry to help you in your design.

Step 1: Decide who you are designing for
Step 2: Decide which body measurements are relevant
Step 3: Decide whether you are designing for the extreme or the average
Step 4: Think about other human factors.

How to submit:
i) Rename the file: Index number_Name_Erg&Anthropometry (Initially filename should be Index number_Name_Guiding questions)
ii) Submit the file to the submit folder by 4th Aug 2010

T3WK4 - Ergonomics (Product Description and Idea Trigger)

1) Take a picture of the product.

2) Post the picture and answer the questions as follows.

i) Describe the product. (Appearance, Color, Function, etc)

ii) What are the design considerations when designing this product?

iii) Would an elderly faced difficulty using this product? If yes, what are the difficulties that the elderly would face?

iv) What do you think can be done to improve on the design of the product to suit the elderly? (Sketch the improved design in your sketchbook and take a picture of it. Post the improved sketch at the end of your post.)

3) Once you have completed, comment on other student's post.

How to submit:
1) Name your title: Ergonomics (Product description and Idea Trigger)
2) Copy and paste your link in the comment below.

Practise (Google Sketch up)

Sketch the following in proportion using google sketchup within the shortest time.



How to submit:
1) Name the file: index no_Name_01, index no_Name_02, etc.
2) Submit into the submit folder.

HURRY! Prizes to be awarded on Wednesday! Only 3 prizes to be awarded.

T3WK3- Ergonomics II

Answer the following questions.
1. What is Ergonomics?
2. What are the 5 aspects of Ergonomics?
3. For each aspects of Ergonomics, explain with an example of a product that is designed for the elderly, how the product meet that particular aspect of Ergonomics.

How to submit:
1. Submit your answers in your Personal ADMT blog.
2. Name your post: Ergonomics II
3. Copy and paste the url in the comment below.

Deadline:
15th July 2010

T3WK3 - Ergonomics I

The above shows 2 different setup of a workplace.
1. Compare the 2 different workplaces, state your observations.
2. Which workplace is preferred? State with reasons why one workplace is preferred over the other.
3. What are the considerations that should be taken into account when designing a workplace that is suitable for the user?
4. Why do you think that Ergonomics is important when designing?

How to submit:
1. Submit your answers in your Personal ADMT blog.
2. Name your post: Ergonomics I
3. Copy and paste the url in the comment below.

Holiday work - Part 3: Tools to be learnt in Semester 2

There are primarily 2 key software tools that you would be learning in Semester 2, namely:

• Phun
• Google SketchUp

Please do try to self-learn the basics of the 2 software tools above. For Phun, there are tutorials already done up on their website. Please do have a look at them. You might also be able to pick up some completed examples from YouTube. For SketchUp, there are even more resources available for you. You might want to try to download some free video podcasts from your iTunes, or watch some tutorial videoclips from the SketchUp website, or to look at other tutorials done by other users on YouTube...the choice is really yours.

Submission:
Please do up a simple room or layout space that shows how you would consider planning to furnish a room so that they are more elderly-friendly. Do explain your submissions with some texts to explain. Submission deadline for this is on the 21st June 2010. Please name your files as follows:

SST_ADMT_ElderlyChallenge_YourClass_IndexNo_YourName.skp

(e.g. SST_ADMT_ElderlyChallenge_S104_07_TanAhKow.skp)

Holiday work - Part 2: Deepening your learning experiences

As part of your research into understanding the elderly, you are tasked to also take video clips, photographs, or any other forms of recordable media to show how the elderly cope with their daily routines. These could include, but not necessarily limited to, every day activities such as: cooking a simple meal, pouring water from a flask, going to the market to buy groceries, going down the stairs, exercising, etc.

As a follow up, each one of you would do a podcast or a writeup of your observations and interviews with the elderly, caretaker, nurses or anyone who work with the elderly. Find out from them what are the problems that the elderly faces. Look for opportunities to observe and interview them such as at the senior citizens corners, void decks, hawker centers, etc.

Note that you are highly encouraged to select a range of elderly folks to observe so as to give you a broader perspective of them.

Submission:
You are to post your work on your personal ADMT blog every Wednesday of the week during the June holidays. (2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd June 2010). Name your post: Elderly Challenge - Observation 1, Elderly Challenge - Observation 2, etc. You are also tasked to go to other students’ personal ADMT Blog to comment on their posts.

Holiday work - Part 1: Understanding the ‘The Elderly Challenge’

For your ADMT individual coursework in Semester 2 on the topic of ‘The Elderly Challenge’, you would be tasked to get a better understanding of the local context of the situation/challenge. A reading on the report done by the 'Committee on Ageing Issues (CAI)' is compulsory for you. The link to the report is here:
http://bit.ly/aKVZZC

Submission:
The following are guiding questions that may enable you to understand the report better. Please answer them in your own ADMT blogs, and post their links into the ‘Comments’ section of this post. You are to complete this by the 19th June 2010.

• Explain in your own words, the FOUR key recommendations of the report.
• State ONE way that the CAI report is recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly
• State TWO ways on how we can ensure that the quality of elderly care here in Singapore is affordable
• After reading the CAI report, what do you are the THREE things that you can do, as an SST student, to help overcome these elderly challenges

Animation - Assessment Rubrics

Animation - Story Creation

Each student is to come up with 3 stories.
Bring the hardcopy of the stories for discussion during the next lesson, 14th April 2010.

Some things that you might want to take note of are:

* Use the research information that you and your group have collated earlier in Term 1 to come out with some initial story ideas/seeds
* Do be mindful of your 5W+1H's (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How). For eg, who is your target audience, what is the message that you want to deliver, when would be an appropriate time for your clip to be shown, why do you think your clip would be most effective, etc
* The 4 key structures of a story, as mentioned in the last session on creating a story:
o PREMISE: (5W+1H, Protagonists, Antagonists, Goals)
o CONFLICT: Goals, Opposing Attributes, the Antagonists (Others, Self, the surrounding Environment)
o Crisis: Height of Conflict, Important Decision
o Climax: Resolution of Conflict, Achievement of Goals

Animation - Bouncing Ball

Please export your animation as quicktime.

Submitting your work...

1. upload the file onto your ADMT group blog that you created earlier. Give the title in your post: Animation Lesson 2 - Bouncing Ball
2. Copy and paste the hyperlink of this particular post to the Comments section in this post.

Deadline: 9th April 2010, 9pm.

Animation Lesson 3 - Flying Student

Flying Student. How do you think that this is animated?

Animation Lesson 3

Animation

Please be advised that the software that we are going to use is here: http://tinyurl.com/yjjh6sh. Please copy and paste the link to download. Its a zip file.

Please download prior to your next admt lesson.

LEAP Week - NEWater Visit

After your visit to the NEWater plant, please do follow up with your own reflection. You can use the following questions to guide your reflection:

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s visit?


2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today during the visit.


3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?


4. What are the things that you can do to help with water conservation in Singapore?

Submitting your work...

1. Post your response in the personal ADMT blog that you created earlier. Give the title in your post: Personal Reflection (NEwater visit)
2. Copy and paste the hyperlink of this particular post to the Comments section in this post.

Classwork - 10th Mar 2010

Task 1: Check the proposed solutions. Ask yourself the following questions.

1) Is this solution feasible?
If yes, how do you intend to implement it?
If no, how can we make it feasible? What are the constraints?

2) Are we doing what others are doing? How is it different from the current way of doing things? How can we make it different? Use SCAMPER to help you come up with better ideas.

NOTE: Don't do what others are doing.

Make changes to the proposed solution keynote and email to Ms Seah.

Task 2: Based on the area that the group have chosen e.g. recycling/pollution/deforestation. You are to promote/encourage e.g recycling to save the mother earth.

In your group,

1) Brainstorm on the messages that you want to bring across to the audience.
Among all the messages, decide on one message that you think is the most important.

2) Discuss how you want to bring the message across to the audience? What kind of a story that you want to tell in order to capture the interest of the audience. Think of interesting ways to send the message across. (Keep in mind that you would be using paper animation to tell the story)

Suggestion: You can choose to tell the story from different perspective, e.g. from the perspective of the future generations or from the perspective of a water droplet.

At the end of the lesson, come up with a story outline with storyboard and email to Ms Seah.

Classwork (Research on materials and sustainability)

In your environment group, research on materials and sustainability.

Use the following questions as your guide

1. What are the different types of materials in the market? Classify the materials into wood, metal, plastics and others.

2. What are the properties of the different materials?

3. How do the different materials come about? What are their compositions?

4. Give examples of the use of each material.

5. What is sustainability?

7. What does it mean when we say that a product is sustainable? Give an example of a sustainable product and explain why the product is sustainably.

8. What does it mean by a sustainable environment? Give an example of a sustainable environment.

Note: Make sure that you cite the source of the information.

At the end of the lesson, post your group findings on the group's admt blog.

Homework and Reminder (24th Feb 2010)

1) Journal on the theme - environment (At least 7 pages) - Group Work
- Definition
- Mindmap
- Questions
- Research and findings
- Identify the need using PIES
- Existing ways of solving the problem (Tabulated, good and bad points of existing solutions.)
Deadline: 26th Feb 2010

2) Photo comments
- Please view the personal admt blog of at least 5 students of the class. Comment on the photos posted. Take note of the technical aspects of the photo. Comment on the good and bad of each photos and suggest ways of improving the photo taken.
Deadline: 24th Feb 2010

Homework (10th Feb 2010)

1) Group Discussion on the theme - Environment. Please e mail to Ms Seah's SST email account.
Deadline: 16th Feb 2010

2) Group post on SCAMPER. For groups that have not done so.

3) Individual post on Photography on People.
Deadline: 10th Feb 2010

Photography (People)

Please upload 3-5 photos onto your personal ADMT blog.
Give a short write up on the photos taken.
Your photos should tell a story.

Please copy and paste the url under the comments section once you have uploaded the photos.
Make sure that you written your name on the comments.

You may refer to the following website for reference,
http://www.colorpilot.com/comp_rules.html
http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/140

P.I.E.S

Ms Seah this is the P.I.E.S work

Brandon

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More sketching practice (Isometric)

Sketch the following images onto your sketchbook.














Deadline: Thursday, 4th Feb 2010
Vice Chairman, please help to collect during lunch time.

ADMT Lesson 1-Environment (Personal Reflection)

The resources of the earth will be depleted completely if we do not make an effort to conserve them.
firstly we must conserve energy by using renewable sources to generate electricity. we should also use energy-saving bulbs.

Perspective Drawing

Click on the following and practice the sketches in your sketch book.
Follow the steps in your sketch.
You are allowed to use mechanical pencil and ruler in this exercise.

One point perspective
Two point perspective
Draw a 3D pyramid

For students who are faster, here's the challenge!
Draw a Brick Wall in Perspective

Your sketchbook is to be submitted at the end of the lesson. There should be at least 3 sketches at the end of the lesson.

Sketching Homework - Stationery

Sketch in your sketchbook one of the following stationery items, pen, mechanical pencil or stapler.

Bring your sketchbook to class on Tuesday, 26th Jan 2010.

Sketching Homework - Shapes

Sketch lines and 3 basic shapes, square, triangles, circle on a new page of your sketchbook. Expand the 3 basic shapes into cube, cuboid, prisms, sphere, etc.

Bring your sketchbook to class on
Tuesday, 26th Jan 2010.

Analysis of a need, problem or challenge (Group Discussion)

1. Identify a need, problem or challenge based on the mind map that have been created earlier.
2. Analyze the situation using the following questions as a guide.
a) What is the root cause of the problem?/Why is there a need to solve the problem?
b) What has been done to solve the problem?

The group is to formulate relevant questions when analyzing the situation.
This allows the group to be focus in their analysis and research.
Use 5W1H as a guide. What, Where, When, Who, Why and How.

E mail to Ms Seah's SST email account.

ADMT Lesson 1 Environment- Ong Kok Jin, Keith

I think that if the humans continue doing their own selfish acts, the whole Earth is doomed. I think we should start doing the 3 Rs(reduce, reuse and recycle) and start conserving natural resources such as trees. We should also start conserving electricity and not wasting it.

Define the Theme - Environment (Individual work)

You are to post the definition of the theme - Environment on your personal blog which you have created earlier. Please take note of the following:

1. The definition of the theme - Environment must be taken from the different sources.
2. You need to acknowledge the source - indicate the hyperlink.
3. The definition should not be only cut and paste. You are expected to highlight keywords in the definition and explained further by giving examples to show your understanding.
4. Towards the end, you are expected to summarize the definition and conclude with their own definition.

Submitting your work...

1. Post on the blog that you have created earlier. Blog name: ADMT-Environment.
   
2. You may post using a jpg. file exported from keynote. Give the title in your post: Definition of theme - Environment.
   
3. Copy and paste the hyperlink of this particular post to the Comments section in this post.

Deadline: 20th Jan 2010

ADMT Lesson 1 -Bandon

I think that human beings' selfish acts will bring upon Earth's doom unless we take the initiative to do something about it because if we are all selfish we will keep polluting the Earth.In order to save the Earth, we must use the 3Rs.(reuse, reduce and recycle) We can also conserve electricity by turning off all electrical appliances when not in use.we can also save water for example by repairing leaky pipes and taking shorter showers. Everyone must play a part in order to save Earth from a certain doom.

Brandon

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Define the Theme - Environment (Individual work)

You are to post the definition of the theme - Environment on your personal blog which you have created earlier. Please take note of the following:

1. The definition of the theme - Environment must be taken from the different sources.
2. You need to acknowledge the source - indicate the hyperlink.
3. The definition should not be only cut and paste. You are expected to highlight keywords in the definition and explained further by giving examples to show your understanding.
4. Towards the end, you are expected to summarize the definition and conclude with their own definition.

Submitting your work...

1. Post on the blog that you have created earlier. Blog name: ADMT-Environment.
   
2. You may post using a jpg. file exported from keynote. Give the title in your post: Definition of theme - Environment.
   
3. Copy and paste the hyperlink of this particular post to the Comments section in this post.

Deadline: 20th Jan 2010

ADMT Lesson 1 Environment - Iskandar B Dzulkarnain

I think that human's selfish act will bring doom upon us, as for our own needs, we're destroying the Earth and environment around us, once the Earth is gone, we're gone, along with any other species on this Earth.
We can help save the Earth by following the 3Rs, which is reduce, reuse and recycle. We can also help make a campaign to motivate more people to save the Earth.

ADMT Lesson 1 Environment - Goh Jin Hao

I think human beings would bring about the Earth's doom and we would all die. I think everybody should play a part and recycle or stop using things which cannot be recycled.

Combating Global Maps and Acknowledgement (Regarding the 2nd Question) / Pictures for Question 1-- Wei Chern S1-03

5 ways to save the planet 

[Source: Youtube]

: SOS LIVE EARTH SHORT FILM Director: SAM ARTHUR

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPkOFwaGKG0  

Awesome Green Innovations for Earth Day 2009 [Source: Youtube]

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPB1rTkPei4 

:http://www.trendhunter.com/tv - Garbage bag couture, Captain Planet and Wind Powered Racers, Today we hunt Eco Innovations to Celebrate Earth Day! Innovations of Earth could also be the modern rechargeable batteries as it saves energy and it could also be the energy-saving bulbs, etc, etc...

Must see this 2 videos...

Informative Combating Global Map

: greatmap.blogspot.com

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ADMT Lesson 1 Environment-- Ques 2-- Wei Chern S1-03

We live in a world where natural resources like air and water are being threatened by the onslaught of human activities. Pollution and industrialization have caused the depletion of Mother Nature's reserves at an alarming rate.

What we can we do to save the Earth?

Students may explore the following topics on this theme:

* Conservation

* Pollution (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

* Innovations for the Earth

Question 2:

1.­ Pay attention to how you use water. The little things can make a big difference. Every time you turn off the water while you're brushing your teeth, you're doing something good. Got a leaky toilet? You might be wasting 200 gallons of water a day [Source: EPA]. Try drinking tap water instead of bottled water, so you aren't wasting all that packaging as well. Wash your clothes in cold water when you can.

2. Leave your car at home. If you can stay off the road just two days a week, you'll reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 1,590 pounds per year [Source: EPA]. Combine your errands -- hit the post office, grocery store and shoe repair place in one trip. It will save you gas and time.

3. Walk or ride your bike to work, school and anywhere you can. You can reduce greenhouse gases while burning some calories and improving your health. If you can't walk or bike, use mass transit or carpool. Every car not on the road makes a difference.

If you must drink bottled water, recycle the bottle.

4. Recycle.You can help reduce pollution just by putting that soda can in a different bin. If you're trying to choose between two products, pick the one with the least packaging. If an office building of 7,000 workers recycled all of its office paper waste for a year, it would be the equivalent of taking almost 400 cars off the road [Source: EPA].

1. Compost. Think about how much trash you make in a year. Reducing the amount of solid waste you produce in a year means taking up less space in landfills, so your tax dollars can work somewhere else. Plus, compost makes a great natural fertilizer. Composting is easier than you think.

Compost means to use decayed organic material as a plant fertilizer.

Information found from : http://science.howstuffworks.com/save-earth-top-ten.htm 

                                                          

5 ways to save the planet 

[Source: Youtube]

: SOS LIVE EARTH SHORT FILM Director: SAM ARTHUR

Awesome Green Innovations for Earth Day 2009 [Source: Youtube]

:http://www.trendhunter.com/tv - Garbage bag couture, Captain Planet and Wind Powered Racers, Today we hunt Eco Innovations to Celebrate Earth Day! Innovations of Earth could also be the modern rechargeable batteries as it saves energy and it could also be the energy-saving bulbs, etc, etc...

Both videos are in .mov format (Mac).

Picture 1: pugetsoundblogs.com

Picture 2: buildbabybuild.com

Picture 3: chezsez.wordpress.com

Picture 4: angryconservative.com

Picture 5: mollymintz.com

Picture 6: 3danimation.e-spaces.com

Informative Combating Global Map

: greatmap.blogspot.com

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ADMT Lesson 1 Environment-- Ques 1-- Wei Chern S1-03

We live in a world where natural resources like air and water are being threatened by the onslaught of human activities. Pollution and industrialization have caused the depletion of Mother Nature's reserves at an alarming rate.

Will human beings' selfish acts bring about the Earth's doom?

Question 1: 

To me, human beings' selfish acts will bring about the Earth's doom because during our daily lives at home, we use up alot of Earth's natural resourses. (Eg, watching TV, bathing, driving a car, using air-con, etc, etc) The worse is that other than just wasting them at home, we also use lots of them at work. Some companies, once in a while will emits carb0n and other toxic gases which can cause global warming. (Greenhouse Gases)

ADMT Lesson 1 environment

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ADMT lesson 1 Environment-Niloy

The Earth would  be doomed if these human beings continue to do their selfish acts. We can save the Earth by growing more trees, use the 3Rs all the time and conserve our nature resources. With all this, it can be a happy and peaceful Earth.

ADMT Lesson 1 - Environment-Tan Kein Shuen

the most selfish act of human beings is the fact that they take others' resources for themselves. if this continues , the worlds o2 will diminish and suffocate us.we can save the earth by the three rs and all other means of green efforts

ADMT lesson 1-Environment Nadiah

Will human beings' selfish acts bring about the Earth's doom?

Ans: Don't you think the answer is so obvious. Of course, human beings' selfish acts  will DEFINITELY bring about the Earth's doom.

What we can we do to save the Earth?

There are many things you can do to save our precious Earth.

Ans: Conservation

We can save many things in our daily lives. The three r's are " reuse", "reduce" and "recycle".

Reuse-Use water collected from the washing machine to flush the toilet.

Reduce- go for a shower instead for a bath

Recycle-Use recycled plastic bags for next shopping trip to cut down on cutting trees.

    Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the eco-system  i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Nowadays, more cars are seen on the road. They emits harmful gases as a results. As there are new CNG cars being produced these days, drivers with their cars using petrol, can change to gas, saving both money and the environment.

   Innovation for the Earth

We can use CNG car more to reduce greenhouse effects as well save mother's Earth. We can invent something more useful in for our future to save both energy and power. By doing our part, i think we can make the world a better place to live in.

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ADMT Lesson 1 Environment-Koo Bing Han

I think human's being selfish acts will bring about the earth's doom as we are polluting the environment making the 'earth sick'. Even though we have already damaged earth, we still can mend it back. For example the 3 r, reduce, reuse and recycle. We can also use greener source of energy like the wind power, solar power, etc. Actually we can also help just by simply switch off the lights when you are not in the room or to make it better change the bulb to a energy saving fluorescent tube.