ILE
My ILE plan:
In my ILE, I will be able to create a calculator on weebly for a website using HTML and the embedded code function on weebly. I will learn HTML from Codecrawl. In my ILE, I will be able to create a simple calculator in weebly. The functions it will include are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It will also include the numbers 0 through 9. Finally, it will have an equal sign to signal the end of equation. I will know that I have completed my goal when I am able to take any two numbers, and add/subtract/multiply/divide them to get the correct output. I should also be able to create any number on the calculator. I will indeed have enough time to finish this goal. I will only need a site to learn HTML (Code Crawl) and a place to input the code to make a calculator (Weebly). If necessary, I will also be able to work on this outside of the classroom, and also school. I can easily log on to weebly to create the code, or log onto Code Crawl at my house to learn the code. I am willing to work at this code. I have seen some of my friends use HTML before and I found it interesting. I am willing to work on this outside of the classroom. This code is interesting to me and I will enjoy learning it. In week one, I will learn the code. In week twelve, I will have learned HTML from code crawl. In week sixteen, I will have completed the code for the calculator and input it to weebly. I will then have week seventeen to edit and revise the code.
Challenges:
Some of the challenges that I encountered were as follows. One of the challenges I encountered was making the code and importing it to internet explorer to make it view-able. It took me a little bit of time to realize that to import the html from notepad to internet explorer I needed to put the file location into the URL of internet explorer.
Another challenge was trying not to duplicate a calculator that was not already on the internet. There are lots of calculators on the internet and I tried to make mine stand out from all the rest. I tried to make this calculator unique and I believe that I accomplished this goal.
I also used different online websites to learn HTML because I found that some free online websites were easier to use and were more applicable to my ILE. Some websites showed me to make the buttons that I was looking for while others taught me normal HTML.
A final challenge that I was presented with was how to get it from my house to the classroom. I thought about copying and pasting it from the Notepad and sending it to myself via email. I realized that it would be easiest if I were to just put it on the Weebly website under embedded code. You can find this down below.
Presentation:
I have worked on my ILE a lot in the past few months and I believe that by the time finals rolls around I will have it ready to be presented. I am going to make a power point presentation so that I have a visual aid. There is a guideline on the northgatehelpdesk.weebly.com website that gives all of the information that I need to know about what needs to be on the power point presentation. I.E. the first page should be about how I decided on the topic of my ILE. I have made part of this presentation in the middle of the semester so the presentation should be fairly easy to make and finish. I am making the presentation on Google Drive Slides so that I can access it from both my home computer and the computer at school.
In my ILE, I will be able to create a calculator on weebly for a website using HTML and the embedded code function on weebly. I will learn HTML from Codecrawl. In my ILE, I will be able to create a simple calculator in weebly. The functions it will include are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It will also include the numbers 0 through 9. Finally, it will have an equal sign to signal the end of equation. I will know that I have completed my goal when I am able to take any two numbers, and add/subtract/multiply/divide them to get the correct output. I should also be able to create any number on the calculator. I will indeed have enough time to finish this goal. I will only need a site to learn HTML (Code Crawl) and a place to input the code to make a calculator (Weebly). If necessary, I will also be able to work on this outside of the classroom, and also school. I can easily log on to weebly to create the code, or log onto Code Crawl at my house to learn the code. I am willing to work at this code. I have seen some of my friends use HTML before and I found it interesting. I am willing to work on this outside of the classroom. This code is interesting to me and I will enjoy learning it. In week one, I will learn the code. In week twelve, I will have learned HTML from code crawl. In week sixteen, I will have completed the code for the calculator and input it to weebly. I will then have week seventeen to edit and revise the code.
Challenges:
Some of the challenges that I encountered were as follows. One of the challenges I encountered was making the code and importing it to internet explorer to make it view-able. It took me a little bit of time to realize that to import the html from notepad to internet explorer I needed to put the file location into the URL of internet explorer.
Another challenge was trying not to duplicate a calculator that was not already on the internet. There are lots of calculators on the internet and I tried to make mine stand out from all the rest. I tried to make this calculator unique and I believe that I accomplished this goal.
I also used different online websites to learn HTML because I found that some free online websites were easier to use and were more applicable to my ILE. Some websites showed me to make the buttons that I was looking for while others taught me normal HTML.
A final challenge that I was presented with was how to get it from my house to the classroom. I thought about copying and pasting it from the Notepad and sending it to myself via email. I realized that it would be easiest if I were to just put it on the Weebly website under embedded code. You can find this down below.
Presentation:
I have worked on my ILE a lot in the past few months and I believe that by the time finals rolls around I will have it ready to be presented. I am going to make a power point presentation so that I have a visual aid. There is a guideline on the northgatehelpdesk.weebly.com website that gives all of the information that I need to know about what needs to be on the power point presentation. I.E. the first page should be about how I decided on the topic of my ILE. I have made part of this presentation in the middle of the semester so the presentation should be fairly easy to make and finish. I am making the presentation on Google Drive Slides so that I can access it from both my home computer and the computer at school.
Semester II
For my second semester ILE, I am using the Zepp Baseball Sensor to track the swings of numerous baseball swings of the Northgate Junior Varsity Baseball Team. I am going to compare those swings to those of other players on the team, and decide which of those swings works out the best, and why those swings work better than other ones.
So far, I have done a bit of swinging with a couple other players on JV. I have about 430 swings tracked on the Zepp sensor. I received a lab report from Zepp that told me that I need to change my swing from a medium to medium to a short to long. The next step that I am going to take is to go and find some more of the players on JV and record more of their swings.
I have made a video for my second semester ILE. It mostly entails what I have done and what I plan to do in the future. It also outlines what the ILE is. It is supposed to be about 90 seconds, but I could not fit all of what I needed in that short time, so I made it about 150 seconds.
Once again, I have recorded more swings under the Zepp Sensor app. We have been notified that we will be presenting this project as an eight minute video explaining what the ILE is and showing what we did. I am currently sitting at about 500 swings. I plan to record some more players' swings before the end of the quarter. Currently, I believe that I have more than enough swings to be able to make a video that takes about eight minutes. I also plan to record people swinging with a camera so that I can add that into the video. Another part of my ILE that shows that I have been working is the app Zepp. It shows the days that I recorded swings, so I can show which days I had someone swing.
Challenges:
So far, I have faced several different challenges. Some of these include being able to get several different people to meet me at the cages at the same time so that I would be able to record their swings. Everyone's schedules had to add up for it to work out.
So far, I have done a bit of swinging with a couple other players on JV. I have about 430 swings tracked on the Zepp sensor. I received a lab report from Zepp that told me that I need to change my swing from a medium to medium to a short to long. The next step that I am going to take is to go and find some more of the players on JV and record more of their swings.
I have made a video for my second semester ILE. It mostly entails what I have done and what I plan to do in the future. It also outlines what the ILE is. It is supposed to be about 90 seconds, but I could not fit all of what I needed in that short time, so I made it about 150 seconds.
Once again, I have recorded more swings under the Zepp Sensor app. We have been notified that we will be presenting this project as an eight minute video explaining what the ILE is and showing what we did. I am currently sitting at about 500 swings. I plan to record some more players' swings before the end of the quarter. Currently, I believe that I have more than enough swings to be able to make a video that takes about eight minutes. I also plan to record people swinging with a camera so that I can add that into the video. Another part of my ILE that shows that I have been working is the app Zepp. It shows the days that I recorded swings, so I can show which days I had someone swing.
Challenges:
So far, I have faced several different challenges. Some of these include being able to get several different people to meet me at the cages at the same time so that I would be able to record their swings. Everyone's schedules had to add up for it to work out.