T2W8: Rubrics on Group Presentations

This is the proposed rubrics for the evaluation of each individual member in the final group presentation:

T2W8: Rubrics on Group Work

This is the rubrics for group work, for your kind reference:

T2W8: GROUP Reflection of Semester 1's project work

Hi all, these are the guided questions that your GROUP can use to craft out and evaluate your group's work on the 'Environment' theme in Semester 1: 

What do we need to evaluate?

• The processes: What are the different stages of the process? Evaluate each stages. How do you think that you can improve on the various stages.
• The proposed solution: Is it an effective solution? 
• If yes, state the reason.
• If no, suggest an alternative solution/make improvement to the proposed solution

Please submit your completed group reflection documents in the ADMT's Submit folder. Please name your file as follows: 
GroupReflection_S106_Grp_GroupNumber 

T2W8: Personal Reflection of Semester 1's project work

Hi all, these are the guided questions that you can use to craft out your personal reflection on the 'Environment' theme and the group work done in Semester 1:

• How do you think you have contributed to the group?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses? 
• How do you think you could have done better?
• What are the problems faced during the process?
• How did you overcome the problems?
• What would you have done if you were given a second chance?

Please submit your completed personal reflection documents in the ADMT's Submit folder. Please name your file as follows: 

PersonalReflection_S106_IndexNumber_YourName

T2W1: Reflection on LEAPS to NeWater Plant

After your visit to the NeWater plant, please do follow up with your own reflection. You can use the following questions to guide your reflection:

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s visit?
2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today during the visit.
3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?
4. What are the things that you can do to help with water conservation in Singapore?

Submitting your work...

• Post your response in the personal ADMT blog that you created earlier. Give the title in your post: Personal Reflection (NEWater visit)
• Copy and paste the hyperlink of this particular post to the Comments section in this post. 

Week 10: An exemplar on the process flow for 'A Healthy Environment'

As presented during class:

Week 9: Discussions on the theme 'Environment'

There would be a need to consolidate all your research and discussions of the theme 'Environment' and of the particular problem or challenge that your group are tackling, in the form of a project journal. This should be done as a group activity. The things to look out for in this project journal are:

• Definition of the proposed theme or challenge; give details of what is the challenge that your group have originally looked into (Weeks 2 to 3)
• Mindmap of problems and ideas proposed (Week 4)
• Questions that have been restated (Week 6)
• Research and findings that have been done and collated
• Identify the need using PIES
• Existing ways of solving the problem (Tabulated, good and bad points of existing solutions, etc). Your group can also suggest solutions to the challenges using the Ideation techniques that have been taught in class, such as Morphological Analysis and SCAMPER.
• The report should be about 7 pages long (minus the cover page, if you are planning to do one; Font: Arial font type, Size 12 and 1.5 line spacing) and done on Pages or MS Word
• Please email me your report to my previously given email address. Do state your team members and class in your report.

Due date: Thursday, 11th March 2010

Week 7: Reminders

Just a gentle reminder on 2 things:

1. Upload your selected photos into your personal ADMT blogs, together with your selected theme, and the reasons why these photos are selected to be featured
2. Updates from week 6; for each group, please remember week 6's work on restating your problems as statements. I will follow up with each individual group during the next lesson this week!

The Living Climate Change Video Challenge

There is an interesting international video challenge competition that I find to be very interesting and relevant to our theme on 'Environment'. I thought that I might want to sound all of you out, in case you are interested. The deadline for this is also just nice for your ADMT project. Do take a look at the Under-18 category of the competition in the URL below. If you or your group are interested, do pass me your names.

http://www.design21sdn.com/challenges/24

Week 6: Your Environmental Challenge - Brainstorming/Ideation

Restating your problems
In week 4, your group would have worked on coming out with 2 key problems and 3 key areas that you would want to work on as your environmental challenge. Before you start to brainstorm on ideas for probable solutions to these problems, please restate your problems as a challenge or a question. For example, if your problem is:

'To encourage students to recycle', 

you can restate your problem as 

'How can we encourage SST students to recycle 

their water bottles?'

The idea here is to be as specific as you can on the intended challenge. This will then allow you and your team to be more focused on your challenges, and your intended solutions.

Ideation

By using any of the ideation methods that have been taught in class, ideate as many possible solutions as you can to each of your problems. Tabulate these solutions if you can.

Week 5: Sustainable Design...a wow idea!

The clip below is taken from TED.com, an annual seminar of sorts where great people with great ideas come together and present their ideas and perhaps even solutions for almost every single problem known to Man. Here is a clip that I find suitable in presenting an example that may deepen our understanding on the topic of 'Sustainable Design', one of the relatively newer areas of Design. Enjoy the clip and answer the following questions below:

• Based on the clip, what is your understanding of the term 'Sustainable Design'?
• Can you think of other possible situations where sustainable design can be incorporated? 
• What do you think inspire him to come out with such a solution?
• How would such a contraption benefit Mankind?

An interesting message from Foo Ming Yong & his team

At this rate mankind is going, i tell you, we're doomed. We're cutting down trees like mad, wasting water, polluting the air, land and sea. We're doomed to one day destroy our own mother earth and by then, its too late to regret it. This is a short animation i made to explain that, although what happens in the animation is not true, we will still destroy earth in a similar way.

Week 4: Consolidating your Research

Now that the individual team members have done their own individual researches, as a group, do consolidate your research. Take some time (about 20 to 30 mins) during class to consolidate and answer the following questions as a group:

1. State 2 major problems that you have identified on the given topic on 'Environment'
2. State 3 potential areas or problems that you think, as a group, you would like to work on for the next 10 or so weeks. Note that you would NOT need to work on all 3 later on, most probably just 1 or 2 only!
   
3. Think of how you can incorporate these sub-lessons for the problem/s that you are going to solve:
• Photography
• Animation
• Models and/or prototypes . Do give some suggestions for this too if possible and relevant.

Note that the deadline for this exercise is next Fri, 5th Feb 2010 by 1700 hrs

Week 4: Making Your Research Clearer

There are many ways to ensure that that your research information is presented in a clear, concise and more targeted manner. Two methods that you can adopt are the '5W+1H' method and the P.I.E.S. method. Do a search on these to know what they are.

Week 3: Doing 'Research' (part 2)

Based on the given 5 different topics on Environment (shown below according to your assigned numbering within your group) that has been given to you in class, do a more in-depth research individually. Ensure that the context of your research is localized, i.e. in Singapore's context. Put up your research work in your ADMT personal blog, and put the URL/link in the comments section below.

FYI, the 5 given topics are:
#1: Sustainable Design
#2: Conserving Water Resources
#3: Alternative Energy Sources
#4: Singapore Environmental Policies/Campaigns
#5: Reducing, Reusing & Recycling@SST

Deadline: Monday, 25th Jan 2010 @ 5pm

Week 3: Understanding 'Research' (part 1)

After your presentations on your initial findings and research on the theme 'Environment', I would like to gauge your understanding on the topic of 'Research'. On your own and during class curriculum time, answer the following questions in your personal ADMT blogs (estimated lesson time: 30 min.).

1. What is RESEARCH? (Please use your own definition/s!)
2. Why do you think research is important?
3. How can we conduct good research?

Post the URL links of your answers to these questions in the Comment section of this post below. Your comment format should look like this:

• Your Name
• Your URL
• Any other comments/remarks that you might want to include

Deadline: By Monday, 25th Jan (6 pm)

Week 2 - Lesson 2 (Part 1) - Environment

We live in a world where natural resources like air and water are being threatened by the onslaught of human activities. Pollution and industrialization have caused the depletion of Mother Nature’s reserves at an alarming rate.

• Will Man's selfish acts bring about the Earth’s doom?  
• What can we do to save the Earth?
• What are some of the problems that we can realistically and effectively be engaged in?
  

Submitting your work as a group:

• You are going to submit your thoughts to this ADMT class blog via email.
  
• You may include text, image(s) and/or videoclip(s).
  
• Put your name as the title of the email so that we know who submitted the post. e.g. ADMT Lesson 2 (Part 1) Environment - your name
  
• Send the email to irfandarian.admt2010s106@blogger.com
• Your work will be posted to this ADMT class blog.

Deadline: 18th Jan 2010, 5pm

For the 2nd section part of this part, each group is to brainstorm and do an initial research on either one of the following sub-themes, or create new ones where relevant:

• Conservation
• Pollution (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
• Innovative solutions for saving the Earth

One or 2 team members from each group will do a 5 to 7 min presentation on their initial findings and research on the given sub-theme/s above. Presentations will be done on Thur, 21st Jan 2010.