International Grades - Open Technologies

For my project I am going to make a source of information either a powerpoint or a website, on geometric prisms. I am goung to use a varied source for information, one of which will be Wikipedia because it is quite reliable and has what I need to find out. I will also use google to find images.All work that will be presented in my blog and on my website will be my own and available under the Creative commons share alike lisence.

Sadly I have had to delete my webpage on formulae, because I had some complications with my home network and uploading the text onto the website. when I uploaded it, it came out in code. therefore I decided it would just be easier to disclude it. Overall I have found this course very rewarding as I have learnt about copyright and copyleft, as well as the consequences. I have also learnt how to use the random number function in Excel, which I am familiar with. the hardest part of the course was learning how to do styles in word, because I have never done this before and there are many steps that you have to do.

I have now decided to add another page on formulae. I am going to include the formulae for: cubes, cuboids, pyramids, cones, spheres, and hemispheres. as well as including how to work out shapes that are made up of other shapes. I will include examples on how to find the surface area and volume. I am only going to do this for 3D shapes. However I might also include another page on how to find the same functions of 2D shapes. In addition to the previous comments, I have made all the possible files PDF documents and made links to the web pages that the pictures on my website originally came from

In my work I have managed to fulfill the following:
-Level 1 (e-mail) as I had to send to the owners of the pictures I am using.
-Level 2 (artwork and imaging software)as I have used pictures on my site that I have drawn with 2D design.
-Level 2 (Internates and intranets) as I have got information and pictures off of the internet and used the school intranet to save and send them.
-Level 2 (Evaluate the impact of IT) I am able to do this because I have researched the rights af people using It and copyrights and copyleft laws.
-Level 2 (IT maintenance for users) as I Have updated my firewall and virus protection software, I have AVG.I have also defragmented my computer to make it faster.

After reading the criteria and several rights acts I relised I had to declare that everything on my website and any of my work was my own, I relised that I had used pictures off of google. I asked my teacher what I should do to asure that I would do the right thing. Mr Dowling said that I should send e-mails to the people whose pictures I had lifted from Google, so I did, however I didn't recieve any e-mails back apart from one which said I could use their picture. When I presented this to my I.T teacher he said that it would be ok for me to use their pictures, and that it wouldn't really matter as long as I put the link to the page where I got it from underneath.

Well,none of it was particularly hard, once I knew what I was doing. The software I was using was very sophisticated, which made it easier than dream weaver or other programmes the same as it. The most difficult thing was proberly working out the formulae for the volumes. However the hardest computerised thing to do was managing to get pictures onto the website. At first i thought you could just copy and paste, but quite quickly i found this was not the case. I worked out that I had to save the picture I wanted to put on my site and then download it from my computer, onto the website.The backgrounds weren't as hard, as they already existed on the software, and all I had to do was adapt them.

I have various pages that can help students with the volume, area and names of prisms and 3D shapes. I have chosen from a range of different 3D shapes, including: Dodecahedron, icosahedron and more basic ones such as pyramids and cuboids. One page has even got the 'nets' for these shapes to help people picture them 2D.
I have tried to make my website sofisticated and visible to the whole world. I chose a colour range of blue, green and white, I thought this would be a good range because I didn't want colours such as yellow, because this would make it hard to read and see.
In all it took me

For my project I decided to sign up to piczo to create a website, that everyone can use. Although I was going to use a power pint presentation, i decided it would be more useful if my work was availbale to everyone. Using piczo also makes it easier for me and everyone else to use the information. The website is: www.prismsgeometry.piczo.com

I first started with research on prisms. For this I used www.wikipedia.org I then made diagrams using 2D design. After researching I decided to do prisms because numerous people where finding it difficult to understand prisms. I find it quite easy to calculate areas and volumes so I thought I would put my knowledge to good use and help others. My mathematics teacher Mr Melhuish said that most people knew the name of some prisms but found it difficult calculating their properties. I realised after starting this project that it was not going to be as easy as I first thought. I worked out that it would be better to start with background information that just diving straight in with surface area and volume. I also experienced technical difficulties when I tried to type this blog straight into my new entry. I found that due to our school system it was ‘playing up’. When I asked my teacher Mr Dowling he said it might be that there was a glitch in the system or that the two networks (the schools network and the ingot network) were incompatible. Thankfully this was not the case. I firstly made a title page I used eye-catching colours that weren’t to bright because the brighter ones made it harder to see the diagrams and text. I decided to use black on white as well as a bit of yellow to save time and make it easier to read. The next thing to decide was the layout and spacing, which was quite difficult, because I didn’t want my work to look messy, but I also wanted to make it look presentable. Unlike some of my friends I decided not to use animations, because I felt that this might only confuse the people viewing my work. With this I finished my first slide.