Our Future Homie :]

Our lovely home will control by just only 1 device. We will have robots for slaves who will do everything for us such as cleaning, washing, etc. We will use screen-touch appliances to control or touch something and we will have computer generated equipment in our house. It will make us save our time because they do all and we just need to sit there and feel the life. We don’t need to do anything because we have robot so that we save our energy.  It will be more convenient. Every day, we have to cook and eat; it will be a very long time. So the robot will help us, we just need to sit down and the food appear in front of us. We won’t late and finish our work faster and it will be more effective because we have lots of time to do and spend for it. All family members will be closer and share more feelings. But it has a bad side for it. We don’t do exercises or work some house works so we will getting fatter and it causes many diseases like diabetes. When technology does everything, human wont ‘develop and become less creative.

Our City script :]

Script

Me:  Chao Cac Ban! My name is Nhi, just call me Sarryna . I am in grade 8 and studying at American International School. Where I live is Vietnam, my beautiful country located in South East of Asia. Plz go on the trip to Vietnam in your imagination with my talk now.

Sound effect : Drum

Me: Do you know Cai Luong ? Is it a kind of food? ( Sound Effect : eating chips) Or a kind of animal? (Sound effect Elephant)  None of them. It is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam.  It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, a classical Chinese opera, and modern spoken drama. It originated in Southern Vietnam in the early 20th century and continues to develop till now.

Sound effect : Cai Luong song (Lan va Diep)

And when we talk about Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City is a promising place for tourists. Here, we can go to the theatre where they perform many Vietnamese’s style plays.  If you want to watch a movie, you can go to megastar or galaxy to watch many amazing block-busters or Vietnamese’s films with profound plot.  You can go shopping at Ben Thanh Market where people sell hand-made products which are very unique and traditional.

Me: What are you waiting for? Pack up your luggage and come here to enjoy such wonders

Theme song : Hello Vietnam – Quynh Anh

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ICT REFLECTION

I use design cycle for the project including making a poster, a leaflet, and a spreadsheet of Rollercoaster Tycoon. I find it saving my time when I break down work according to the design cycle. My overall objective is to attract visitors to come to my park while it still ensures the constant profit I will get.  Particularly, my aim for the poster is to advertise my park, for the leaflet is to give visitors more information, and for the spreadsheet is to balance the money I spend on the park.

To do the poster, I was brainstorming some ideas. Before doing that, I have searched on the internet to find the best way to build a poster. I found some more ideas to make my poster better. First, it is suggested that eye-catching things never fail to attract visitors’ attention (color, pictures, drawings, unusual shape, etc.). Second, it’s more attractive with colors. Third, you have to make sure that your spelling is correct and it is the most important idea . When I had collected information, I started to decide what I should do for my poster. Visitors I am in favor of are mostly children, so I made it colorful and simple.  Besides, I used some cute pictures even for my logo to attract their attention. I like this idea because it didn’t cost me a lot of money to do it. It is also suitable for my age, so I find it easy doing this. Then, I started to create the poster. I think I didn’t work hard because my poster doesn’t look very good. The colors don’t blend with each other and it’s not creative at all. I already gave it to my friends. They commented that it was ok but not good enough. They suggested me to use the color wheel to choose suitable colors.

What makes a good leaflet? technically, I think the leaflet size should not be too small or too big because we should make sure that it is easy to be carried around without feeling burden. Besides, I believe large pictures can hold visitors’ attention and prevent them from throwing it away. However, the most important thing is that the information in the poster must be concise and easy to understand to avoid the boredom. I put lots of pictures in there and it shows the information through the pictures. I wrote my information by using an easy fonts and colors. My friends gave me some ideas to make it more beautiful such as using green for the letters and purple for the background to make it suitable. I want visitors to understand more about my park so I give some information but not much. At first, I did it with Publisher but it couldn’t embed so I copied it to Power Point. This leaflet is not attractive and not very useful to young children even it’s colorful. If the adults read it, I think they will like it because they always want to know more information about the park like “save or not?”.

I had kept thinking for a while how to make a spreadsheet because apparently it’s totally new for me. As a result, I collected the information from both my family and internet. First, I was advised that all titles for columns and rows should be in bold font for it is easy to read. Certainly, the accuracy is the priority when doing this, so I was very careful to avoid any mistakes, though the smallest. This is

the first time I used Excel but I think it’s very helpful when we calculate. I am like the manager of this park who control the park. I had to calculate the total income of the park using the formula SUM and IF statement. Before I calculated the total, I had to predict the number of people would come to the park. This amount of people would change the number of foods or and drinks. Goal Seek is an example that could change this number. I plugged numbers into the spreadsheet and calculate. Besides, I can know that the park makes profit or loss.

            This is the first I did it, so I still have some troubles . I didn’t manage time well. I spent too much time in some unnecessary parts while spending less time in other ones. Next time, I think I should balance the time between each part. Moreover, sometimes my aims are not realistic enough and above my ability, so I couldn’t do well on what I intended. I think working on this project is helpful. It helps me solve problems I meet when doing other projects, though they might be difficult for me. Everything will be easier if I can break down work to do things step by step.