Blooper Reel

Here it is, our blooper reel!!!

The Youtube Issue

Uploading eps3 was one of our biggest set backs with this project. We tried uploading the episode onto youtube numerous of times, each taking about 2 hours. However, the video only had the time span of five seconds. (Five seconds of course, was not the original length of our eps.) This was when we started to freaked out, and overused the CAPS on msn. We honestly felt like youtube had some kind of a conspiracy against us, because nothing worked. We then decided to upload the eps onto different video sharing site, motionbox. And thus, began my weekend...



As a result, the eps was still only 5 seconds! our efforts were in vain ;__;
http://www.motionbox.com/video/show/7a9fdbbd131debcaf5/332d79dd743d4eff
Dion eventually found the problem. It was eps3 itself all along.
too bad it look us 5+ hours to figure that one out. D:

Credits

Group Members

PJ, Mary, Dion

Cast Members

Mary as Mary Haddalittle/Agent Double Oh 3.14
PJ as Dr. Clang Chang Ping
Dion as Chef PiRsquared
Mary's Dad as Mary's Dad
Matthew as Mary's Dad's voice
James as S.A.C. Leader's voice
Ryan as Mailman
Mr. K as Mr. K
Ms. L. as Ping Pong Fiend
Anthony as Hooded Bandito
John as S.A.C. Undercover Classroom Agent

Crew Members

Cameraman
Dion

Script Writers
Mary, PJ

Editor
Dion

Question Creator
Mary, Dion, PJ

Question Digitizer
PJ

Question Annotator
PJ

Prop Creator
Mary

Stress Reliever
Mary

Random Stats

Hours Spent Filming
50+

Hours Spent Editing
150+

Hours Spent Question Digitzing and Annotating
150+

Number of Times Mary had to do the Roll for the Intro
6

Number of Times Mary had to Run
75+

Number of Times we've Misplaced the Camera
2

Number of Times YouTube had Failed Us
3

Hours of Fun We Had
400+

Number of Questions
7 (1 is Bonus)

Number of Injuries During Filming
1 (Punch to Anthony's Nose)

Special Thanks
Mr.K
Benchman
Ryan
Anthony
Ms.L
Matthew
James
pc40sw09 math class
mathbits.com
slideshare.net
youtube.com
blogger.com
bloggertricks.com

and you for viewing our project! (:

Until next time....peace out!

Now that it's all over and done....

OMG!!! It's finally done! Haah! Mission Accomplished!!!!

Man, am I ever happy. I personally think that we did awesome on this project. Our project is in the form of a videos series. Each episode has a slideshare presentation inbetween with fully explained solutions. We decided to do our presentation this way because we felt that having an exciting storyline with appropriate questions would attract people. In a way, it's like they are Agent Double Oh 3.14 (and that's quite a clever name don't you think? Props to Mary and Dion for that one!)

I think our problems were pretty diverse and they were helped our storyline flow. The actual videos are quite funny I think, but then again, who am I to put words into your mouths? After hours and hours of working on this project, there's only one thing I can say now. I'M SO GLAD IT'S OVER AND CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!! LOL. Yea that's right. I said it. I can't wait. Now let's move on to the more important parts of this reflection.

• Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?

Well this one is easy. We basically tried to pick the problems in each unit that we had some trouble on and we combined them in a way that would make sense in our storyline. We had many different problems queued up but in the end, we trashed a few of them because they just didn't fit in.

One of the most important things that we kept in our heads was that we wanted to make questions that were hard enough to pose a challenge and make you think but easy enough so that when you see the question people don't go "This looks waaaaaay too complicated!" and they end up just looking at the answer and moving on. If we made the questions too hard, people might not really absorb anything because they would do just that : look at the answer and move on. Especially with our project having a storyline, it was really important to keep that balance between question difficulty and storyline interesting-ness. On the other hand, if we made the questions too easy, people would lose interest fast and what we made would just be a short 1-minute per question review. Maintaining a good balance was definitely quite difficult and stress inducing.

We also chose these questions because we thought it they would provide a diverse enough set of questions that a great deal of questions would be answered. We knew it wouldn't be possible to answer every single question out there about math in one project. I think that's the reason we all have to do one. It's so that as many questions, comments, complaints, concerns, anxieties, inquiries and uncertainties any person might have get answered or touched upon. I think that as we've worked through this, I have seen and fully understood the true meaning of this project.

• How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?

These problems show that when we all work hard together, we can tackle any math problem that comes our way. We started all these questions from scratch and tweaked them around so that the numbers worked. And if they didn't, well then we just picked new numbers or even changed the question entirely just so it does! Also by picking and fully explaining a wide variety of questions, it shows how much we know about the subject. It's just as Mr.K quoted, "You can't say you've learned something until you've taught it to someone else and they can do it." Hopefully the way we have explained it is sufficient enough for people to understand and really know what they are reading. That was really my main goal as the annotator.

• Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.)

I learned a lot from this assignment. I learned how to create my own questions, answer and annotate them all from scratch. I've helped plenty of people before and explained my answer to them and how I got it but never like this. This was definitely a challenge for me and it helped me to dig deeper into my abilities in math to be able to explain it digitally in a way that is still as effective as me verbally explaining it to someone. I also learned how to use various digital tools for presentations. I got to learn how to use Prezi which I have already used before in English and History class. However, I had to find a new media to use for Math. As I was trying out new tools, I got a chacne to learn how they work. In the end, I decided that slideshare would be the best.

As for educational value, yes it was valuable to me. While I was going through the questions and having Mary and Dion edit them for me, I got to see the little mistakes that I made. One of the most obvious ones was from the first question with the hyperbola. I kept drawing the hyperbola opening in the wrong direction. I never would have caught that if Mary hadn't pointed that out. Thanks so much Mary. I think that these DEV presentations are educationally valueable to many of us because it gives us a chance to see the little mistakes we make. It also gives us a chance to learn from others and to obtain solutions to our questions. All in all, I think this project is more educationally valueable than any other project I've done because what we have created is able to be viewed by everyone around the world. It's not just limited to those in our classroom. Instead of having only 20 or so people helping you out, you now have a whole world of tutors. Sure you won't be able to ask for their help 24/7 but it's great to know that there's always someone there to answer your questions.

In conclusion, I would just like to say that I could not have wished to be in a better group. Mary, Dion and I worked superb together and the project came together beautifully. Thanks so much to everyone who helped us out. Props to Dion for the fantastic editing job and to Mary for the great acting job. (: You two made this project a lot less painful and a lot more fun! Thank you Mr. K for giving us this opportunity. We may have never even thought about doing this if it weren't for you.Thanks also to our Pre-Cal 40S Winter '09 class for making this an awesome year! I seriously can't wait until next year so that we can........well we'll just let you guys find out next year. I hope you guys has plenty of fun reading about what we had to say about this project and I especially hope you enjoyed following the adventures of Agnet Double Oh 3.14!

Here's to a finished DEV!

KANPAI!!! lol. xD

~jayp~
A.K.A. Dr. Clang Chang Ping xD

Reflection

Alright! My bad.. Take 2! Many late nights, extra takes, problem solving and miles of footage we're done! What an amazing job! :O We need a 3 way secret agent group handshake......





Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?

We chose/made our questions according to what would work and help our story line (which was tough) and then jazzed them up and created questions involving more than unit. We used the units that were more challenging to us to create the questions so we could better our understanding of those units. With the exam coming up and this taking up much of our study time, this was the one way I could study because of late nights of editing. We also wanted to make sure we had a variety of material that touched upon all the units we've covered to fully cover and prepare ourselves for the exam and give the audience a good taste of what we learned.





How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?

It was a good review and team effort and prooves what hard work can do. Not only does this project show we know how to solve but we know what goes into a problem and how to create them ourselves. Teaching something is the best way to show you know something and this project was a great way to do this as it pitted all of our knowledge to come up with and solve the problems. We used the problems we were struggling the most on and used those units to teach ourselves and re-inforce what we know.





Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.)

Overall, this project has been very fun to make and it's been quite an honour to work with PJ and Mary on this! This project has really helped me a lot not only as a huge refresher to everything we've learned so far but has shown me a lot of how many things are related to eachother and can work together. Although it was very time consuming (and youtube was VERY frustrating at times) it was fun and very helpful. I feel confident going into the exam now that I see what goes into math problems and how even the most complicated looking things can end up being very simple. I think that this project has helped me most in remebering and re-learning the trig identites and logs.






I thank you PJ and Mary, you two have taught me so much math in this past week! It's been fun and I look forward to next years DEV and making a sequel perhaps, or is that giving away to much? :O (Are we still going to make a DEV next year?!?!?!?!........ :(

Relection

"hey, guess what! :D"
"...what?"
"WE'RE DOOOONEE~!"

( how my evening went. )

I knew from the stat, that this project was going to be a toughy. Tears were to be shed, friendships tested and emotions reaching their limits...but this was ridiculous! I didn't think it was going to be this stressful. XD We had to go through two "misplacing"s of the camera, a problem with uploading of eps3, (pictures will be shared), and with time itching closer to the due date, wouldn't you be losing sleep too?? Plus, this DEV project required a huge amount of organization, discipline, and time management....all of which i don't have. Bluntly said, this project was some heavy duty work. But with all the mishaves and troubles our group faced, it feels really good to know that "WE'RE DOOOONEE~!". I'm glad that i had you guys with me, because with out you two, pj and dion, who knows where i could've ended up. Asylum,Asylum,Asylum.

• Why did you choose the concepts you did to create your problem set?

There were probably numerous among numerous of reasons to why we chose the type of questions that we did. But for me, and im pretty sure pj and dion would agree too, it was based on two main concepts;
a)Problems that we had trouble from previous encounterment, and
b)problems that we thought would best flow with our storyline.
We did this, not out of sheer random, but because we knew it would benefit us later on. (especially with that provincial exam lingering around the corner). By creating problems with the units that we lacked confidence in, gave us a chance to change that. When developing those questions, we not only had to know how to achieve the answer, but we had to understand it, and explain the process in detail too. Ultimately, this meant mastering our worse technique. Plus, complications like; not using correct methods or altering certain terms to make the consistent answer look pretty, (pj's specialty. Seriously, the kid has a talent. He was able to make math that looked like "aljsoinovijkdlkfjs" translate/equal to one's and zeros. It was beautiful. XD Question 5, if you dont take my word for it),was very time consuming. And keep in mind, these questions were the type that we had the most trouble with, meaning frustration hung heavy on our shoulders.


• How do these problems provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far?

Im not sure if im interpreting this question correctly,but the fact that i was able to create questions from units i was iffy about, means a lot. It shows that i went from not firmly grasping the concepts, to understanding them enough to do wonders. These questions are proof that we were able to learn from our mistakes, either if they were from dreaded tests(exaggeration), or horrid quizzes(exaggeration). If that doesn't show our progress,what else could?


• Did you learn anything from this assignment? Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.)

First and foremost, this project allowed me to learn an abundance amount of pre-cal knowledge. This project to me, was like concrete to potholes. It patched up the holes in my understanding of pre-cal40s, and helped pave a smoother road in life. (of course, this feeling was not until after the project was done.) And yes, if it wasn't obvious enough, this project was educationally valuable to me. (:


Dion, Pj, thank you for making this project funner than it should have been. (:
-Mary

Episode 6: "The Final Showdown?"

Here it is! The last episode! Enjoy~!



Question Time!!!

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Question 6

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Well I guess this project is over! From here, you can go on to the credits, our bloopers, our reflections (Dion, Mary, jayp) or you can go to other places and breathe deeply knowing you just helped Agent Double Oh 3.14 save the school! For other "extra" things to see, check out our sidebar!