In ITC, we are working on making a game using Scratch program. We are also collaborating with students from other school. We use Google Presentation to carry out our collaboration after making the groups and choosing which game we are going to create.

My group members are Gina, Christabel, Jasmine and Marcel. We chose to make a simple maze game. Right now we have decided that we will make the sprites go through the maze under our control using key arrows until it reaches the square at the other end which will take the player to the next level.

We have created 3 different levels so far, and we will continue on.

This is our maze game:

“So what do you think? What type of games should we choose? Forever, or stage?” I said

“I prefer forever” Yeon Su answered with an excitement in his voice

“I don’t mind” said Lulu

The  project had brought all of my group’s ideas together. We all had different thoughts, we all likes different types of game, but we all had to agree on one game only. At first, we were stuck on which game too choose from  because there were so many options(i.e. ping pong, snake, pump, etc). However, we also had to think about how we are going create it scratch. It was a tough challenge . At first we thought about creating a ping pong game, but our teacher – Mr. Bertoia – said that it will be hard to created. As he explain, we started to understand that ping pong might not be the best type of game to make.

As the class went on, we went to many different game website to find example of the game that we will make. None of us thought that it would be so hard of a process. Personally, I thought that making game is as easy as making cereal for breakfast. But making game in scratch take a lot of process, which is not what I expected.

Next class, we finally agree on making “Snake” . It is a classic game that our group new from Nokia phone. We played it before so it will be easier to talk about it and it is not hard to make. We used the other work that others done before as an inspiration to what we are working on (we don’t copy!). Through the project so far, we laughs and a lot of talking, but  it was a fun experience and that will definitly help me in the future

In this blog post, I will be showing you how to add a Clustr Map to your wordpress blog. In case your are wondering what a Clustr Map is, it is a small widget that shows you how many people from different regions visit your blog. Adding this widget is simple and easy; just follow the instructions below:

1. Open firefox and on the address bar, type in the address shown below

2. Once you get to the website, it should look something like this

3. In the red box I’ve highlighted, enter your blog’s URL in the URL box, and your email address in the email box. Keep in mind that they will send you your Clustr Map account’s info there.

4. After filling in the boxes, click on the “Make my map” button on the right side of the boxes.

5. After clicking on “Make my map”, it should take you to your admin page. If you scroll down, the page should look like this:

*note* You do not have to do anything to the section above the red box.

6. Copy the HTML and go to the back end of your blog.

7.On the side, mouse over appearance and then click on the arrow pointing down.

8. click on the widgets button

9. Under available widgets, drag the Text box into the main sidebar

10. paste the code in, and give it a title

11. Click on the save button and tada~ ur finished.

For the past science classes, we have been experimenting with a Rolling DotCar. Every 0.5 seconds, this car makes a dot. My group was assigned to form a ramp 15cm from the ground and calculate for the average velocity of the run by measuring and calculating the distance of the dots. Before this, we were given 3 questions to write our predictions on this lab.

For the first question, I predicted that rolling a car downhill would produce Acceleration and not Constant Velocity. In conlusion, my prediction was correct. This theory is supported by the data we collected. The table shows that the velocity of the DotCar accelerated as it rolled down the ramp and decelerated as it reached an even level. Constant Velocity is when an objects’ speed is unchanging. In the graph, you can see the velocity increasing and decreasing over time.

Predictions for the second question were difficult. I predicted that the steepness of the ramp will affect how the car will move, depending on how high the elevation is. The higher the level, the faster the car will descend. In conclusion, my prediction was correct. This theory is supported by the different speeds for every elevation in the given table below. You can see that the higher the elevation, the average velocity of the lab (whether it is massed or un-massed) increases.

Finally, for the final question, you can see in the table above that for the first 2 elevations, the un-massed car’s speed was faster than the massed car, while in the last 2 elevations it was vice versa. This counters my prediction, which stated that a heavier mass will affect how the car will move down a ramp, believing that with more weight, gravity will pull it down faster. This contradiction is likely because, for the first 2 elevations, the weight had a bigger impact as it caused friction, causing the car to slow down. But because the elevation was greater and because the distance was longer in the last two elevations, gravity had a stronger influence on the free-fall of the car. The longer the car ran, the more time gravity had to exert a pull on it, causing it to move faster.

• first of all, log in to your word press.
• when you log in to your word press, click site admin.
• in left side of your site admin, there is a section call appearance.
• in appearance section, there is a widget section and click widgets.
• n lists of blogs, click text section and there will be a text section on your right side of your site admin and press edit.
• once you finish all the steps, go to http://www.clustrmaps.com/
• in clustermaps.com create your Id with Gmail id. type any of your email to get you password
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• when you log in to your site, on the right side of your clustermap site, there is a section called word press.
• after you click word press section, scroll down, and there is a bunch of numbers and letters.
• copy the code, and go to your widget and press text on the list.
• there will be a blue tag called text and press edit.
• type in your title and paste the code.  after you paste your code click done.
• go to your blog and there will be a cluster map on your blog

leave a comment when you have a question!

A week ago we did another lab.
Science lab involving physics. (I dislike physics personally, I’d prefer biology and environmental science). In our lab we had to use a dot car to find the velocity and the change in position, and study the acceleration.

Unmassedd

Massed

At the start of this lab, I predicted that:

1) Rolling a car down a hill will produce acceleration, because, the car starts off at a slow velocity. It will gradually increase in velocity, therefore accelerating.

2) The steepness of the ramp does affect how the car will move. This is because; if the ramp has a high steepness the car will have more momentum. Hence, the car will travel at a high velocity.

3) I think that the mass will affect the car because the weight will slow down the car which effects the acceleration.

Conclusion

In conclusion, rolling down a hill will produce acceleration. This does not counter my hypothesis, because I said that the car will start at a slow velocity then accelerate. This probably happened because, as the car was released from the top of the ramp, the car would be gaining momentum and gravity would be pulling it down causing it to go faster. However once it stopped gaining energy once it hits the ground, it decelerates because of the friction on the ground.

The steepness of the ramp does affect how the car will move. This does not counter my hypothesis because; before I said that the steepness will affect how it moves. This happens probably because of the increase of momentum as the car races down the ramp and the gravity pulling the car down. The more momentum the car has the faster the car will go. Also the table above clearly shows that, as the steepness of the ramp increases the distance traveled and the velocity will also increase no matter what.

The last prediction is hard to conclude because of the contradicting evidence. As seen in the table above, there are 2 tests that show that the mass will make the car go slower, and the other 2 makes the car go faster. However, in my opinion, I think the car should go slower. I think this because the weight of the car will increase the drag and the friction therefore decreasing the speed of the car.

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After you follow this tutorial. Ok?

1. First of all, your theme has to have a CUSTOMIZABLE IMAGE HEADER. To check, go to Themes which is under Appearance in your Site Admin. Choose a theme and read its description to check if it has a CUSTOMIZABLE IMAGE HEADER.

2. After you have selected the appropriate theme, under Appearances there should be a category called Custom Image Header. Click it!!

3. You will arrive to a page smartly titled : Your Image Header. Under the subheading named: Upload New Image Header, click Browse. A window will magically appear and you can browse for the image you want to set as your image header. Once you have navigated through your computer and found your image, click Open. Then click UPLOAD!!

4. After that, you will be on a new page and using the highlighted box, move it around your image to select the section of the image that you want to use as your IMAGE HEADER. Once you have made your decision, scroll down and there should be a button that is labeled: CROP IMAGE. Click it.

5. The page that you will arrive on will triumphantly state: HEADER COMPLETE. Aren’t you happy?

6. Go to your blog site and you should see your fabulous new header. If it does not show up, try refreshing. Or reading this tutorial again.

Good luck.

· First go to widgetbox.com

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Second go to the right click on a category

· Third is once you find something you like you go to the right CLICK on GET WIDGET

Fourth is copy the URL AND PASTE IT in text in apperance

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lastly is press SAVE CHANGES.