Global Contexts

Global Contexts

I believe that my project can be set under the identities and relationships global context due to that context meaning Identity, beliefs and values, personal, physical, mental, social and spritual health, human relationships including families, friends, communities and cultures which can fit under cyber bullying which affects all of these things. One of the definitions under the Identities and Relationships contexts has to do with mental health and social health and cyber bullying greatly relates to these things, this type of bullying greatly affects your mental and social health in the way that you started to feel in very bad moods and depressed due to feeling like the world hates you and it has to do with social health because cyber bullying can destroy your relationships with others. My topic and global context relates to present day life because due to the great use of social media and the large amount of people who use it and rely on it for jobs, cyber bullying is a lot more frequent and the likelihood of it happening is quite high especially if you're well known on any of the social media apps. I applied the ATL, Information Literacy, when I had to research on the topic of cyber bullying and see how it affects people, how to stop it, etc. I also had to use my prior knowledge of last year when I had researched on cyber bullying to help me with my story idea. I applied the second ATL, Creative Thinking, when I was creating my scratch project as I applied my knowledge and creativity of creating projects on scratch and I used many coding blocks such as motion, looks, etc. and you can see a wide variety of coding blocks applied to my scratch project. I also used storyboard to develop my idea and plan out the scenes and what they will contain and how my story and plot will develop. 

My Story - Cyber Bullying Scratch Project

Self Evaluation

Peer Evaluation

Storyboard

The following is my storyboard that I plan to convert into Scratch. It is focused on the topic, cyber bullying and how to stop it.

Reflection

1. What did I do?

My storyboard focused on the topic of cyberbullying, a form of bullying that happens on online from people that are either anonymous or someone you know, as this is a growing issue for people around the world as more and more people use social media, I thought that it would be a good topic for my storyline to focus on. It's about a girl called Matilda, who was cyber bullied for many years until she got the courage to talk to someone and end the torment she had been facing. My story also features ways to solve the growing issue. 

2. What did I enjoy?

I enjoyed designing the storyboard, such as figuring out how my characters would look like, their colors, their personality, etc. It was also nice to pick out the speech that they would say and design my character in their speech and how their attitude towards the other would be like. The girls who cyber-bullied Matilda were obviously shown as snotty, cruel people whereas Matilda's friend, Clarissa, the one she talks to encourages her to speak out and stop them. Another thing I enjoyed was the range of backgrounds I could pick from, I could have just stuck with the same background of Matilda talking to Sarah in one room but decided to demonstrate a possible technique I could use whilst using Scratch to create my story, which is the change of backgrounds. 

3. What did I find difficult?

It was difficult to find the topic I wanted to do as I had first wanted to use my passion in creative writing and demonstrate it through IT and scratch but I thought better of it because I did not think of a good enough idea that could be portrayed in Scratch, as well as that I suffered from writer's block as I could not think of a decent idea. However after taking inspiration from the various scratch projects miss had shown us of international issues, I decided to do cyber-bullying. As well as that, this school is an international school so I thought it would be better fitting to do cyber bullying. 

4. What worked well?

The background story of Matilda, the victim of cyber bullying in my story, I think worked well as it let you in deeper of how a person reacts to cyber bullying. As most websites talk about the facts of it and how it happens, etc. However, I decided to branch out and try and look through a victim's mind and see how they would react to it and how they would get the confidence to fight back. 

5. What would I do differently?

If I could repeat my storyboard, I would add in more movements and more sign of action. As they are mostly either sitting or standing, I am going to add more motion scripts when I convert this into a Scratch project, other than the lack of action happening throughout the story, I am quite proud of how my plan of my story turned out. 

Scratch Project - Conversation

Scratch Project - Morning Routine

Scratch Project - The Ocean

The following is the scratch project I created, that follows the instructions of the task to be able to move the mouse cursor so it labels ever object that I have put the coding in. My project is about the ocean.


   

Art Theme

The following is the scratch project I created using shapes and motions, along with it are the sprites and scripts I used to create the motions.