SDT 12

Yesterday, we finally finished our task 4 which was the oral presentation. Doris did all the speaking and I just showed our resort in front of the class. I found that bit weird because every one spoke. I have listened to every others, and it made me tensed because their presentation seemed really good. Much better than what I wrote for us. They talked about the grey water and FSC wood which I didn't included parts about inside and wall because I thought I can't say something that is invisible. Because when Mr Ward showed us example with the harry porter resort, he told us about things that you can actually observe. (You can't see what the walls are made of or what systems are inside) That was the reason why I only wrote about the window and designs. I really did watch all the videos in the blackboard, but I didn't used it. Everyone had their own smart ideas of designs and sustainability of the building. I especially liked the grey water and Lauren and Silvana's solar panel that treks sun. I took a photos of our finished resort, but somehow my email doesn't work and the battery is flat bu I promise to post that someday this week. 

SDT11

Today we started to work on designing our buildings. I will try to upload the photo on the next post but today I have no photos. For the oral, I'll do the write up and Doris's going to do the presentation. I don't know whether she will make the powerpoint or not. I recommended her to do that way. Because if we mix each others speech I guess, will massed up. And because I got better mark for task 2, I just decided to write the whole thing by myself and let Doris do the speaking because sometimes people don't understand my pronunciation. I wrote it during the weekend and Doris will make the powerpoint. I think I would be finished if I worked by myself because there were some conflicts in our ideas. I know this is the hard thing about the group work. Anyway, because I thought we don't have much time to waste, I just thought of the name, 'The Sun' (resort) because the main thing of our resort is that big arc shaped solar panel (Although it seemed bit random and ugly...) We wanted to colour our resort in green, but because we couldn't find any green papers or buy them during the weekend, (I tried but I couldn't buy anything) I related the colour of the building to its name so I decided to do it in a red, orange and yellow papers. What I think is that the colour is not the main thing in our work.

T2 SDT 10

This is my first post of the term. I had 2 lessons before it and we have another lesson today. I haven't take any photos this term. We made some changes recently that was not on our plan. We found a great material to construct the forest but we used sand to do our background. I didn't quite get the idea why Doris wants to it with the sand and the benefits but so many people wanted to use it, Mr Ward said sand will be better and Doris want to use the sand, so I just go with it. It looked okay, and I'm happy with it. But I'm guessing we won't be having wind turbines. But I think it is okay still without the wind turbines. But I wonder what's the benefit to have the cemented ground for our resort. But I think this will be okay for there are still a lot more to talk about uniqueness of our building. We are planing to buy some figures of fountain and people. we might do some shopping during the weekend.