Monday, January 31, 2011

Energy Conservation video...Messaging for Kids

1. I think kids are the target audience of this clip.
2. I think it is trying to convey a message hat CFL bulbs are better than incandescent bulbs because they use less energy and last longer.
3. I think it is effective on kids only because it is a little too childish. It is effective because it not only tells you that CFL bulbs are better, they explain why.
4. I think they should make a documentary version for adults

Energy Conservation video...

1. The limitations of using renewable energy are that it affects people. Like when they build huge wind machines that are used to renew energy too close to people's houses and the people start having opinions like there is too much noise coming from the machines.
2. They try to build smaller wind machines near houses and bigger ones further away from residential areas.
3. The school can have some talks on how to conserve energy and why it is important.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

3 things I have learnt today

Today, we did a lot of research on different views of drawings.
Our group did research on Exploded Views. It is basically a picture showing a dismantled product or object and the parts are all labelled precisely. I thought this is very useful.
I also learnt from another group about first-angle orthographic projection. It is useful as you are able to look at objects at different angles.
I think that isometric projection is very interesting because an object must be very special and angles must be fixed in order to form an isometric projection.