Week 6 Report

Capstone Discussion w/ Gigabit Goon Squad

For Eddie, he has an internal conflict because everything he writes about is related to education. Because he is a teacher, all of his capstone ideas are about education. His first idea is to create a grading and management system, allowing people to create different groups and seating charts, size of groups. It can integrate student's individual education plans. The goal is to create the perfect seating chart. His second idea is to create an all in one school environment, where students don't have to go to different apps. Sort of like google classroom, but more involved such as with deadlines and homework assignments. It allows teachers to observe student's position in many regards. His third idea is a video game like Kahoot!, a quiz game with four options that is also timed.

For Victoria, first idea: an app that helps parents see children's current grades and also be able to communicate with teachers, among many other features. Second idea: an app that helps people scan food and/or food products and it can tell you if any ingredients may be toxic or carcinogenic. Third idea: a fitness app that enables more in-depth customization and has reminders for vitamin and medication regimens. The app can also include exercises that help with the user's age or condition. Another idea that Victoria has is a book app that can help reading enthusiasts to connect and form clubs. It can have a rating system for users to review books.

For Guillermo, his first idea is something simple, like a pantry storage app. With a phone, one is able to scan items that they have in their pantry and manage grocery inventory. People can have different profiles. His second idea is to make an app that takes a recording and turns it into music sheets or tabs. Third idea: weather app that can form air quality maps from existing APIs. A cool re-creation of features that many weather platforms have.  

 

Weekly Learning Summary

This week was overall fairly challenging but also rewarding. This is mostly because Gigabit Goon Squad decided to get ahead with the video project, and therefore there was considerably more work condensed into this week. However, now that most of the project has been handled, things will feel a bit more downhill from here on out. We learned how to compose video scripts, advance our video editing knowledge, and even gain some more audio editing experience which is great since I am an amateur musician. 

The ethics paper was surprisingly smooth to complete once I understood the gist of each section. Critical thinking is truthfully easy for me, so getting into the nitty gritty of each argument from stakeholders was sort of fun. Creating our website shells for ILP portfolios was also a good experience, and a cool brief look into web development (I think, or rather hope). Another good experience was creating our cover letters and resumes, which will no doubt prove useful in the near future when we graduate and enter the workforce.