Cyber Safety Presentation

Travel Brochure - Maldives

Criteria A - Analysis

Introduction:

This term I created a travel brochure/guide about the Maldives using the online software canvas, I chose this specific software because it provided me with a lot of different features, templates etc. I have travelled to a lot of places across the globe like Spain, HongKong, America, London etc. but one of my dream countries to travel to has always been Maldives so thats why I decided to do the travel brochure about it. This brochure is a guide for people who are going to or are planning to go to the Maldives.

Design Situation:

As a travel agent I want my clients to travel to unusual places that are still very enjoyable, I'd definitely prefer if they go to very tropical and natural places rather than cities although cities are also very enjoyable as well. Since the Maldives is very small I decided to focus on the Maldives as a whole and not a specific part. The Maldives are known for their beautiful beaches and their tropical islands and mind blowing resorts. My clients just like me would rather go to a tropical place or a place with sight seeings and wild life, the Maldives is full of sea animals that you can swim with like turtles, whale sharks, dolphins etc. The Maldives is an ideal place to visit for swimmers, beach, tropical and wild life lovers and surfers too. 

The Maldives is a South Asian island country, its a beautiful place to visit, every resort in the Maldives it on its own island. There are about 80 resorts at the moment and they have great facilities like sports, bars, restaurants etc. The population of the Maldives is 345,023 (data found in 2013). From December to April the weather is dryer season, which means it would be pretty humid and will barely rain, from May to November the weather will be wetter, it will rain and the wind will be a lot stronger. So you would decide when you want to go depending on what you prefer. For divers both seasons have their advantages (which will be talked about later).

Research / References:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g293953-c14574/Maldives:For.The.First.Time.Visitor.html

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/maldives

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g293953-Maldives-Vacations.html

http://visitmaldives.com/

Design Brief:
This brochure that I will be creating is basically a guide to Maldives. I will include when to go and what places to go to when you do visit and some activities that can be done (for both family and friends). I will also talk about the weather conditions, clothes to bring as well as what types of people would enjoy the Maldives the most. I decided to also add some fun facts about the Maldives so if someone is interested in going they can learn even more about the country and if some people are not interested in actually going they can still read a bit about the Maldives and expand their knowledge. Since 99% of the Maldives is water I decided to make my brochure a bright eye catching blue to resemble the water, beaches and oceans and because blue is a very visually pleasing colour. 

Criteria B - Developing Ideas

Attributes that I used and why I used them: 

Software: Canva, because it includes lots of different features like fonts, colours etc. and also has lots of different templates that I can use. Its very simple and easy to use and requires very little skills.

Font: Montserrat Light, Montserrat and Parisienne. I used Montserrat Light because its a very simplistic font that is easy to read but still pretty bold and I used it for the main bodies of text. Montserrat was used for mainly the titles for the bodies of text because just like Montserrat Light its very simplistic and easy to read except its bold so its better and more suitable for the titles. Parisienne is a beautiful cursive font that is pretty complex but not complex to the point where you cant read it, its very eye catching and was used for the main titles.

Font size: For the titles I used fonts between the size of 20-60 because it depended on how much space I had and how important the text was, the more important the bigger of course. The title for the whole brochure was size 57 whereas for some of the paragraphs the titles were only size 21-36 because either it wasn't very important or there wasn't much space for a big title.

Colours of the font: the colour of the fonts depended on the background colour, for the areas where the background was darker I made the font white and when the background colour was slightly lighter I used a light grey and when it was very dark I used a darker grey. The reason for this is so that it stands out more.

Colours of the brochure: Different shades of blue because its more eye catching and very visually pleasing and because the Maldives is mostly water and is known for its islands, beaches and oceans so the colour blue fits perfectly.

Shape: Rectangle because its very simply but still very eye catching and I prefer things that are more simplistic.

Reflection (incomplete): I think I could have coloured my planning so that it looks better but I think that its a pretty good outline of how it will look and will make the actual brochure a lot easier and quicker to make since I already know how it will look.

Criteria C - Creating the Solution 

Reflection:

The final brochure is very similar to my plan the only difference was that I changed the placement of the facts and moved the quotes. I changed the placement of the facts because I had extra space under the paragraph and places to visit and things to do so I put it there because I thought it looked a lot better. It was also very easy to overcome it digitally. I used Canva and learnt some new features, I discovered some new fonts that I like a lot and learnt how to use text boxes in a very easy way, it was very simple to make since all the feature are very easy to use. The process was easy but was a bit time consuming because I did create the plan quite a lot of times because I wasn't happy with it, I basically just shifted things around until I was happy with how it looked.

Criteria D - 

Making the survey:

Survey Questions:

Final Reflection: 
           The project to me was very interesting, it was probably my favourite one that we've done so far because I enjoy travelling a lot and because brochures are very simple and easy to make. I am most proud of the information, even though it is a bit too much information it is very useful and detailed and it took me quite a lot of time writing it and researching so I am very proud of that. If I were to redo this project then I would probably take more with the brochure for the visual aesthetic because I feel as though I focused more on the information and forgot about the looks and visual aesthetic which is just as important as the information to attract peoples attention. Miss did say that I had too much writing so I think next time I'd write a bit less so that I don't bore my audience. Also, next time I would probably make it more visually pleasing by adding more pictures and changing the colours probably.
           Most of the tasks were completed before the deadline the only one I didn't finish on time was planning but other than that I think I used my time very wisely and I'm happy that I managed to finish everything on time with still some spare time to check over my blog and make changes if needed. My aim for this assessment would probably be a 7 since I finished everything on time and put a lot of effort into it.

Microsoft Excel / Spreadsheets

Introduction to spreadsheets:
What is a spreadsheet? what are the various types of spreadsheets? Who would use 
spreadsheets? How is it beneficial to students, adults and businesses?
A spread sheet is an electronic document in which data is arranged in rows and columns of a grid and can be manipulated and used in calculations. Theres two dimensional spreadsheets, three dimensional spreadsheets, logical spreadsheets, arithmetic spreadsheets and object oriented spreadsheets. Spread sheets can be used by schools to keep track of student attendance or who paid, etc. It can be used by engineers because they need to make lots of calculation while working and it would take way too long to do each calculation on its own. It can also be used by sales people, supermarkets and market researchers to keep track of the items they have sold and to track their finances, loses etc. Its also used by scientists to keep track of their experiments. It can also be used by normal people who would like to keep track of their daily habits. It can also be used by teachers to track their detentions or the marks they've given their students.
It is beneficial to students because as I said they can track their habits and by that I mean they can track how many days they've been late, how many times they've don't their homework last minute etc. but they can also track their homework or their attendance. It would be useful for adults because then they can use it for their jobs and again just like the students they can use it for daily habits. It would be useful for all types of businesses, if its sales people they can use it to track their sales or if it was an accountant they can track their financials or the prophets and forecasts and the wages of the employees. Overall its useful for lots of people mainly adults tho and it saves time and paper.

What is the global context?
Globalisation and Sustainability

Tech Fair Project

Planning/Meetings: Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday
Tuesday: 
- start the paper mache (make at least 3 layers)
- at my house after school
- will need a beach ball
Saturday:
- spray paint
- poster
- continue the tech stuff
- at Lina's house at 1 o'clock
Sunday: 
- continue the tech stuff
- make sure everything is finished

Task 2 - 3 project ideas:
Idea 1: Hologram
Last year Lina and I were thinking of doing a hologram but we ended up changing it so this year we were thinking of making one. We didnt end up picking this because we though it wasn't creative or challenging enough and theres probably loads of people who have made this before are are going to make it.

Idea 2: BB8
This is the one Lina and I decided to do in the end, this BB8 would move and would have a body and a head although we then realised making a head wouldnt work so we had to just make a body. This idea seemed very interesting and creative and we haven't seen any one in our school make it yet and it is indeed very challenging. We also thought that lots of people would like this which would give us a very good chance in making it to the tech fair.

Idea 3: A Projector
We were also thinking of making a projector using a phone but then we realised that someone in the class was already doing it and some people had done it last year. This projector was also very easy to make so it wouldn't have been much of a challenge since all you needed really was a phone, a box and a lense and a few other small things.

Task 3 - Presentation to represent your chosen idea

Task 4 - Design Brief: 
We are designing a life size, phone controlled BB8 from star wars that will be able to move around and rotate. We are aiming this at star wars fans as well as kids, the star wars fans will obviously enjoy this a lot since BB8 is a star wars characters and since it is very big and moves it'll be very fun for kids to play with and watch. Our design will be used for entertainment purposes. The design is going to include a big beach ball with paper mache over it that will need to be spray painted orange and yellow.

Task 5 - Peer Evaluation:
(i was not in class this lesson as i had practices for international day so this will be done soon)

Task 6 - Reflection: 
Throughout the research I learnt how to advertise a product by making the poster. I do think I used appropriate website for research because it seemed reliable and it had lots of information and instructions and the materials were listed so it made it very easy. I didn't manage to follow everything and I didn't maintain the deadlines, I did miss a few things but I ended up catching up with everything in the end. I think it will be enough to enter the tech fair because we did work very hard on it and put a lot of effort but who knows because we haven't finished it so we don't know how it will look but if it goes as planned then we hopefully will end up making it to the tech fair. If I would redo this then I would add a head because we weren't able to add one because it wouldn't balance on the body but I think its fine the way we did it.

Criteria D:

Peer Evaluation done by Lina

Final Reflection: 

Criteria C: Creating the Solution

Creating the Solution: Exploring Tinker cad skills to Create my Chosen Design

Wednesday 16th November 2016 

 This is my tinker cad draft, I haven’t finished it yet I have to add more details but for this lesson this is what I did, ill probably need one more lesson to finish it, it wasn’t hard to make since I didn’t include that many details. The problem with my design is that it doesn’t need that much 3D effects but my other designs will.

Reflection of this lesson - november 22nd 2016:
In this lesson we had to finish and edit our design on tinker cad, we had a subsitute teacher also. It didnt take me that much time to finish it because I had already finished last lesson i just needed to add some details to make it more visually pleasing and so people can really understand what my product is.

Criteria A: Inquiry and Analasys

What is digital printing?

The process of transfering a document from a laptop to a printing substance.  It uses a color management to keep images the same no matter where they printed it. 

What is 3D printing? 

3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. It was with making a virtual design of the object you want to create.

Who uses them?

Companies: furniture, toys, jewelry, shoes, car, etc.

References:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/digital-printing

http://3dprinting.com/what-is-3d-printing/