Design Cycle

Investigate:

For my photo journal, I have decided to do my topic on how television effects our children today? I did some research and found out some negative effects on television like that television can make children lazier and fat because they watch television too much which makes them do less physical activity outside with friends during their free time or weekend and not doing their homework. Violence on television causes children to be more aggressive and think its fun and acceptable to hurt or kill someone in real life. Swearing in television teaches children to swear all the time which isn't appropriate for their age. Socializing with family members will not effect children to socialize because they will be more interested in watching television than spending more time with the family or helping them with chores. Watching too much television can damage our eyesight which will make it harder for us to see well.
Links:
http://www.articleswave.com/articles/negative-effects-of-television.html
http://www.raw-food-health.net/NegativeEffectsOfTelevision.html
http://www.personal.psu.edu/afr3/blogs/SIOW/2011/10/does-watching-tv-ruin-our-eyesight.html


Design:

I will provide a photo journal explaining my topic, which is how does television effect our children today? I will provide 10 photos in my photo journal that will show my audience the negative effects television can do to children in our society today. These photos will also each have a written sentence explaining the aspect of these photos.For example, I will show a picture of a fat child watching television because i want to explain how television is making him or her lazier from watching television so much instead of doing more important stuff.


Plan:

Since the beginning of this project, I planned on doing some research on what technology I wanted to do it on. I then researched some pictures on technology to give me better ideas on my topic.Then I decided what my topic will be about for this project, so I researched some information on what positive or negative impacts this technology effects on our environment to talk about in my photo journal. Then I decided that I will put a few pictures that will explain my topic.


Create:

I will create 10 photos showing how television can effect our environment. I will show pictures of what television can do to children. For example I will show a picture of a child beating up another child because television shows a lot of violence which isn't good to teach children. Also a picture of a person starring to close to the television because watching too much TV can cause you to have a bad eyesight. Why am I going to show photos that are bad things about television? Because television has a lot of negative effects on alot of people especially children.


Evaluate:

If I could evaluate myself for this project I would probably give myself a 4 because at first, i didn't really understand what to do for this project.It was very confusing! Also because I am answering the guiding question. I explained how the technology I picked effects our environment today.If I would have more time to improve on my project, I would probably show a video about my topic because I think the audience would be more interested into watching a video of photos than me explaining the meaning of these photos and also it would be more fun and easier for me to work on because I love making videos.