Cellular Respiration: 2

This past week I finished researching the subject and have looked at quite a few different illustrations gathering ideas to put together the animation. Some of the illustrations we might even be able to use in the animation, that I believe will help give a big picture of things in a better way than I thought we could do by ourselves. I have also put together a list of the main steps in cellular respiration that are necessary to cover at any level, I tried to keep things simple enough for a large target area to understand the information provided. I haven't and won't be able to meet with the rest of my group until next week, due to work conflicts, but I will be trying to sending an e-mail to them so that they can use the information I have gathered to start working on a story board....which the last I knew will be the basis for the animation.

Cellular Respiration On Track

This week we acquired a new teamster to help out with the service learning project. Steph will now be apart of our Cellular Respiration project and we are happy to have the addition. The past two weeks have been spent doing more specific research on the steps of cellular respiration in hopes of finding difinitive stages that are clear-cut and easy to understand. Stephen and Liz are mapping out how to animate these steps by making each slide a PDF file. Since we now have another group member we will meet next week again to make sure everyone is on track with their assigned work. Our goal is to have the steps planned out by next week as accurately and efficient as we can and continue work on steps to animation. Once we have an outline of exactly what we are showing on the slideshow, we will be able to come up with a script for the educational component of the animation. This is definitely going to be a lot of work but the end product is going to be great!

Cellular Respiration-new group

I just switched groups due to a problem with volunteering at the humane society. I will now be working with Cody, Liz, and Steven. We have not meet yet but plan on meeting this week to catch me up in what they have already started. We will be doing a animation video of cellular respiration. We will be using video and photo shop to create this presentation. The presentation can be used to help many people of all ages to better understand how the process works. We hope this will help teacher so they can use it in there classes to present to the students. I am starting to look up information and diagrams on cellular respiration to help the group. I hope I learn and master how this processes works myself. I also hope I learn some more technology of computers so I can make more videos. This should be very interesting and helpful to many.

Cellular Respiration

I am collaborating with Cody Linjer and Liz Westberg for this service learning project. The plan for this project is to create an animation video of cellular respiration, taking it step by step in an entertaining presentation complete with voiceovers from the three of us and using Photoshop along with a video player. This animation will be used to help students at various ages to understand cellular respiration and to help teachers with an easy to use presentation to help explain the process. I will learn several things by the end of this project: understand more about cellular respiration, gain the ability to use a few new computer programs and the ability to make a useful presentation that will more likely than not help me in the future.

This week I have been researching cellular respiration more in depth and have been going over the basic functions and uses of the programs we will be using during development. Also, I have been thinking about the different ways in which we could present the information….thinking about different animations and ways to keep everyone’s attention.

Cellular Respiration Project

For my service-learning project I am collaborating with Liz Westberg and Steven Thompson to create a visual animation of cellular respiration. We are going to create a presentation that can enhance learning and understanding for students. Our hope is that teachers will use this tool in class with ease and that students will gain a better understanding for the process of cellular respiration. I am looking forward to this project not only for the community and group element but to learn more about cellular respiration myself. I have already begun to research more specific information on the topic to ensure that our presentation is accurate and appropriate. There’s no better way to learn something than to teach somebody else. When the animation project is finished, it will be available via the Internet as a learning source for student’s school projects or class discussions. Liz, Steven, and I have started to take roles in collectively adding information to the project through research, information, and computer programming.

Cellular Respiration Animation

I am working in a group with the very awesome Cody Linjer... and Steven Thompson. The three of us are going to create an animation depicting the process of cellular respiration. We will write and record the voiceovers ourselves, as well as plan out and animate it using photoshop and most likely iMovie (as none of us know how to make a flash animation, and we haven’t got the time to learn). The finished animation is projected to be between 3 and 5 minutes long, and will be posted on youtube, where the link will be forwarded to the whole Biology department, and all the bio teacher’s we have had, asking for feed back, and for them to pass it on.

For now we are all just researching cellular metabolism, and trying to gather ideas on how we want to present this. Cody knows her way around photoshop, but earlier, I gave a crash course on photoshop and imovie to Steven, so he can help with the grunt work. We made a seven second loop of a potassium ion entering a cell with the help of a protein pump. It took us 45 minutes. I am looking into better software I may have at home to eliminate the need for about half the stills.