Title: The Demon King
Author: Cinda Williams

Page: I forgot, but around 70 ish

Response questions:
Does Han know the danger he is in, after talking to Lucius about the amulet?
What is the Breaking?

In this unit of product design, we made light boxes of our favorite places, or our most memorable places. For this unit, I made a light box of my most memorable place, Cypress mountain. I started this unit by picking out an image for my light box. Although other images stuck out to me, Cypress mountain stuck out to me the most because it was so close to my home, and we would go there every day in the winter to ski. Once I had picked out my image, I decided to go and pick out how much layers there should be and what layer is what. Once that is done, I moved onto making the design in Illustrator. It turns out, Illustrator is very hard to use. I couldn’t cut the box the way I wanted, and it was pretty hard for me to find the tools I wanted to find. Once, I had to take a screenshot, edit it in preview, and edit it back in! But in the end, I managed to pull through.

One regret I had while making this was being a bit behind on schedule, and because of that I wasn’t quick enough to grab myself some yellow lights. In the third picture of my lights, I feel like it would work even better with yellow ones.
Another regret is that I should have used blue lines to make an indent instead of black lines. Apparently, Black lines cut really really deep, and they don’t look very good on my light box too.
One final regret I have is painting the mountain black instead of dark brown. I also wish that my painting was a little better, as my shadows aren’t very good.

On march 13th, I was tasked with an assignment that I think is rather fun. The task is this: your partner and you tell each other about your favorite foods, and tell each other about how it might be ruined. You then have to design a product that solves your partner’s problem. For me, here is my design process.

Design:

I first had to sketch out a design, and I came up with something like this:

I planned to make this out of cardboard some tape, and hot glue.

Production:

I first took out a cardboard box and cut it into many pieces. I then glued it together into a box without the front and top. I then attached a platform near then top, around 3 cm from the top of the box. Then, I built the tube for the water to come down. I had to put the reservoir on the top, and I then put on the roof of the box. I added the control panel last.

Complications: 

I had a few complications during the production of my invention.

– The reservoir was going to be too small if I put it on the inside of the machine. So, I had to put it on the outside.

– the tubing would collapse without any support if the glue was not dry or had too much weight on it, I learned that the hard way.

– Some of the cardboard half a centimeter off, so I had to recut.

Feedback: 

my partner posted this on my invention:

“Really creative making pipe thing inside the box.”

A) Describe how you feel and act when your mental health is thriving in the Green Zone. (Don’t just say ‘normal’ – what does that look like? What does it feel like?)

I can control myself to stop at any time, any I can communicate with others while using technology without any problems.

B) What are some tech habits and strategies that are keeping you thriving in the Green Zone? Describe them in detail. Also include people who help you with this. How else does using technology have a positive effect on your well-being?

If I was to ever wonder away from the green zone, I would force myself to stop, and sit in my room reading a book. Once I feel like that I am back in the green zone, I come out again. Usually no one helps me with this. Sometimes technology doesn’t throw me into a pothole, and instead has a positive effect on me. When I am not in the green zone for some other reason than technology, I sometimes look towards video games to bring me back into the green zone.

C) Think about your tech use and habits (social media and/or gaming and/or E-learning). What are the triggers/challenges that take you out of thriving in the Green Zone and into the unsettled/struggling feelings of the Yellow/Orange Zones? Use what you know about the brain, sleep and the effects of tech on mental health as you answer this question.

When nothing goes my way and someone is trying to talk to me. I had one of those moments yesterday when I tried a whole 2 hours trying to get a mod installed on Minecraft. All of it wasn’t working, and my brother came to me trying to tell me something. Luckily I controlled myself and told him to go away calmly. Constantly losing in gaming does not bother me, as I am very used to losing(I am not a very good gamer, even though I have played video games for more than 7 years now).

D) Describe how you feel and act when you are unsettled or struggling in the Yellow/Orange Zones.

when something just isn’t going your way, you feel like trying to punch a brick wall, because no matter how hard you try, you can’t break it.

E) What are some strategies that you have used to help you get back to the Green Zone? Describe a time when you have used it. Or, if you currently don’t have any strategies, think about the Mindfulness strategies from the previous post. Describe a time when you could have used one of those strategies or habits and how it would have made you feel. Also include people who could help you with this.

My strategy is to sit in my room and read a book. It takes my attention away from whatever is happening, and I get back to the green zone in no time.