Sara Inoue

We started off by learning about a tool for color blind people. It calculated the background color and the font color, which then explains what changes were needed for the color blind people to be able to see better. I thought it was fascinating how there are so many tools that I didn’t know about. After listening for a bit, I thought of situations where such tools can be convenient!  Today is the last day to practice for our group presentation. Since we all understood what improvements we needed we decided to go through the presentation and make sure we wouldn’t make the same mistakes. I think it is important to practice at home with your own speech, however I realized how different it is when you actually practice as a group. It allows you to notice new problems of other group members as well as get advice from others.

Today we learned how to make a website using google sites. We are going to make a website for our group presentation about utilizing spaces around our school. To do this we will need to think of ourselves as educational designers and present the information and ideas we have researched about the problems in our school. Once I opened google sites I noticed that it wouldn’t be as hard as I thought it would be. We did a practice website and played around for the first part of the lesson. I thought it was fascinating how all the tools were on the website to make it easier to add other things. For example, there was a map tool and I could search up a place and add a map. I thought that it would be convenient to use it in other classes in the future!

On the first lesson back after our long Summer Holiday we learned about Crowd Sourcing. we started off by reaserching as team about "plagiraism".   It was my first time hearing this vocabulary an I was able to learn the meaning and the ways it was used in our society. As a whole "crowd" our class researched about one thing and put all our results on one page where everybody could see it. However, I noticed several things we need to be careful of since we were reaserching together rather than alone. I had to make sure that what I was about to write wasn't already written by someone else.  We were able to work together with numerous people without actually communicating, but being aware of the situation and making changes by ourselves.