Monday, August 6, 2012





 


STUDENT NAME : ARISHA KHAN


           TITLE OF PROJECT : LEARNING SPOT PORTAL



           MENTOR NAME : NAZIA CHOUDHRY



Day 1 

22- June-2012
It was my first meeting with my mentor and I was quite confuse to choose the topic so first of all I switch to internet and search for some personal project topics related to IT. Then I got that it is all about our choice,likes and the subject we are interested in.So my mentor suggest me to first think about my interest and the subjects as well as as the topic which I would like to do. Our personal project coordinator gave us some worksheets to fill and when I filled the first worksheet which was a KWL chart I got , what all i have to do in my personal project it was really helpful to me here is that chart :

Day 2 

23- June-2012

Today I finally decided my topic of personal project and I told my ideas to my mentor that I would like to create a portal which can help learners as well as teachers in different ways. My portal will focus on every age group but for this first of all I have to interview the people to know what are their wants because I think people enjoy visual learning rather than to read or write.Therefore my personal project will provide facility to learn and understand the things  in visualize way this will help students to better understand their studies related topics. Moreover there will be stuff for teachers to teach students with the help of videos,audios,animations etc.So after this I filled an idea map in which i wrote what area of interaction I am focusing on what is my central idea and what is my aim
  

Day 3 

29- June-2012
Today me and my mentor went to our personal project coordinator and told him about my project.We discussed these question:
  • What is my personal project all about?
  • What is my aim?
  • What is my area of interaction?
  • How my personal project is helpful to others?
  • What will be the outcome and how the product will look like?
Then I told him what is our aim what resources I will use and how it will be beneficial for others and when he approved it I decided to start working on it.



Day  4

30- June-2012
After deciding what will be my content of personal project I also decided to focus on the Design Cycle to make our work organized and easy. 
Investigate:



Plan:


Create:
Web Pages


Evaluate:



Day 5

6- July-2012
Now before starting I wanted to know how personal project is to be made what points I should focus on. So today I saw a power point presentation which was given by my mentor which helped me a lot and clear my doubts then focusing on those points I created a content of my Personal Project 


Day 6

27- July-2012
I have started with my personal project so first of all I thought to start with investigation. I searched educational videos related to my level students so that it can benefit me as well as my pals here is the link to that video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGCOmVQiRNY&feature=related  

Day 7
20 August-2012
I search some sample personal projects and I also visited some educational portals to know what should be included or not in a portal and what stuff will be beneficial and intresting for the people as I was bit confuse what topics should be included in this portal these portals helped me a lot to get the relevant topics one of them is:
http://www.educator.com/chemistry/


Day 10
19 September-2012
Today I did some coding of my HTML pages which was my first draft it is just a rough coding I added background image,Heading and change the font colour here is the coding and the page layout:
<html>
<body>
<body background="\\myp-ict\MYP-ICT-Students Documents\Personal Project-ICT\Arisha\School-Supplies-Education-Backgrounds.jpg">
<h1>
<font color="#ffffff">
<font size="200"><font face="Century Gothic"></font>
Learning Spot
</h1>
</body>
</html>















Day 11
21 September-2012
Today I searched some banner and pictures related to my portal and I told our Humanities teacher Mrs.Sabanz Sulaiman about my portal according her it is very useful for her she can make humanities subject more interesting through audios & videos which she will get easily on my Learning Portal

Day 12
26 September-2012
Today started with the java script.My mentor first introduced me what is javascript all about and where is being used so this time iam also going to use javascript in my webpages and today I learned how the starting of java script is being done here is the coding of my first page:
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello World")
</script>
</body>
</html>
Day 13
28 September-2012
I made an action plan of my portal and the content which it will be consisting of,what will be the polls and forums this will help me a lot in making my portal right now I have marked the things which are already done by me and the thing which are not done and I have to do are marked as cross.Here is my Action Plan



























Day 14
3 October-2012
Huh! Today was the hardest day of my personal project meeting with my mentor.She taught me what is java script and the codes used in it.The only question which was in my mind was what is so different in HTML and Java script but as I started Java script at starting it was just like HTML codes but gradually I came to know the difference between both the languages. So here is the first draft of my web page which was the starting of my Java script


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
       body {
padding:10px 50px;
font:normal 11px auto "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#E6EA9;
}
    caption{
padding:0 0 5px 0;
width: 700px;
font :normal 11px auto "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text align:right;
}
</style>
</head>
<h1>
<img src="\\myp-ict\MYP-ICT-Students Documents\Personal Project-ICT\Arisha\elearning_banner_1.png"width="1000" height="300"/>
</h1>
<body>
<p>
This portal is a Personal Project final product.The goal of this project is to promote e-learning and also to make studies a easy and enjoyable to change the way of leaning and making it much better for those students who face many problems while understanding what a teacher wants to explain and also for those who find studies boring.This portal uses different techniques to make studies much more interesting with the help of animations,videos,audios , quizzes and much more.This portal is also a helping hand for teachers as it provide guidelines worksheets,sample papers,educational videos,animations etc which give different ideas of teaching patterns.The Area of Interaction which is mainly focus is Community & Service.It is because the people which I interacted most of them like audio visual study patters instead of reading the books and copying down its text in mind focusing on these views and taking my personal experience drove me to choose this project which will help students as well as teachers to make an educated community and a peaceful world.
</p>
<table border="6">
<tr>
<td>
<a href="\\myp-ict\MYP-ICT-Students Documents\Personal Project-ICT\Arisha\Learning Portal\R_Students.html"><IMG SRC="">Student</a></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<a href="\\myp-ict\MYP-ICT-Students Documents\Personal Project-ICT\Arisha\Learning Portal\R_Teachers.html"><IMG SRC="">Teacher</a></td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td>
<a href="\\myp-ict\MYP-ICT-Students Documents\Personal Project-ICT\Arisha\Learning Portal\R_Extras.html"><IMG SRC="">Extras</a></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<a href="\\myp-ict\MYP-ICT-Students Documents\Personal Project-ICT\Arisha\Learning Portal\Contact Us.html"><IMG SRC="">Contact Us </a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>



Day 15
5 October-2012
Now going ahead towards other codes I learned some new codes like code for clock in website,codes to create a calculator,table codes,buttons codes etc. I took reference from the PD F pages of Java script and  
today I tried to create a calculator and how to make buttons


Day 16
6 October-2012
I collected more material which should be added to the portal for eg.some videos, banners, 
e-books and much more I also searched for some education websites which can be helpful to the users of this portal 

Day 17
17 October-2012
Today I made my first page of portal and now I am trying my best to do more additions to it to make it more better.As it was the first draft so there are many changes which I have to make so  I have not yet finalized this webpage.I will be finalizing the pages after the completion of all the pages.


Day 18
19 October-2012
Creating web pages and showing difference in each was quite difficult for me so today I made a design what will be the format of my web pages what options  and buttons will be there in it. This design will help me to work accordingly and for the formatting of these pages


Day 19
24 October-2012
Now I am ready with two webpages of my portal and side by side I am doing my evaluation today I have got some very helpful and useful websites for Java Scripts and I am trying to understand material other than pictures and videos are added in this Script.





Day 20
26 October-2012
Today I had a meeting with my mentor she told me what else I have to prepare for my personal project report in which I have to describe my personal project,its process, and also to justify the selection of Area of Interaction.We saw some sample reports also to get a general guideline how reports are being made.


Day 21
31 October-2012
Today I completed  4 pages of my portal.Though I have not done any editing in it but I have made the webpages and the material which it will be containing is saved by me .


Day 22
7 November-2012
Now my all the 6 pages of portal are completed now I started editing the webpages to draft final product today I edit the first page of my portal.


Day 23
9 November-2012
After editing the first page I linked a video of e-learning which is a sort of introduction of e-learning then I have written about the project in it. The first webpage is based on following questions:-

  • What is the importance of education?
  • What is e-learning? 
  • What is the goal of my project?
  • What AOI I have selected? 
  • Why I selected this AOI?
Day 24
14 November-2012
After I completed my second page which consist of different E-Books in PDF format for students and teachers.It includes some e-books like novels,science books etc.

Day 25
16 November-2012
Today I completed my third webpage which is the webpage for educational videos of different subject s like physics, chemistry, english etc.

Day 26
21 November-2012
The forth page is for students which includes learner profile this will tell students how to be a life long learner.


Day 27
23 November-2012
The fifth page  of my portal is for teachers which have some link of helpful websites for teacher.


Day 28
28 November-2012
Today the complete editing of sixth page is done which is the page for extra things like Google map etc with its help people can easily find their ways and destination.


Day 29
30 November-2012
Today I linked the e-books and videos with the portal and all other things which are suppose to be added to my webpages as per my planning of the product.

Day 30
5 December-2012
Today I analyzed my webpages and now they are finalized the changes which I thought should be done are now completed and in the next meeting with my mentor I will be showing her my project product.



Day 31
7 December-2012
Today I had another meeting with my mentor in this meeting my mentor saw the product and now she suggested me to start with my personal project report.We also discussed that we fail to make a website because of shortage of time but at least we made the webpages and my aim to learn Java and HTML is accomplished.



Day 31
12 December-2012
I started writing my report so first of all I decided the content of report and took some ideas from sample reports our Personal Project coordinator gave us an idea/sample how to start the report and what all it should consist of.This is the index of my report-

  • Introduction
  • The Process
  • Research & Sources
  • Area of Interaction
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
Day 32
14 December-2012
Today was the last meeting with my mentor as she had to leave tomorrow for some important piece of work.So we discussed how I have to complete my report what more changes are to  be done in product and how I will present it.She gave me some worksheets to fill and keep it as a evaluation record.

Day 33
19 December-2012
I have started writing the introduction of the report though it is not yet complete but I will try to complete the report within this week.

Day 34
21 December-2012
I completed my introduction part of the report and I have also done the entries  in the evaluation sheets which consist of the information about my personal project and the answers of the question on which personal project is based on.


Day 35
28 December-2012
Today I have written the Process in my report file and I have collected all the material to be shown at the end of  my project.


Day 36
2 January-2013
Today I completed my report and now it is ready to be presented I also filled all the other worksheets which I searched to add in my report of the product.


Day 37
4 January-2013
Now I have completed my project but still I am doing some or the other changes time to time which is necessary for my project.My product and report both are complete but product is still in process as I have to make changes again and again in script as it change the location of the images and videos.


Day 38
9 January-2013
Today was a very difficult day for me as I was editing my product I faced many problems in doing the coding of html & java and it was more difficult because there was no one to guide me.


Day 39
11 January-2013
I took reference of a JavaScript book from library this helped me to correct the errors and the problems I faced in coding.


Day 40
16 January-2013
I evaluate my project according to the design cycle of information technology and recorded all the things which were planned to do. I accomplished the goal which I set for my project.