{"id":39,"date":"2015-01-23T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/?p=39"},"modified":"2015-01-31T02:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T02:34:06","slug":"newsletter-2-january-23rd-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter 2: January 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletter 23rd January 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second week of the project and where we continued the early phases of<\/p>\n<p>pre\u00adproduction.<\/p>\n<p>Over the week we spent time furnishing out some the ideas that we had thought over from<\/p>\n<p>last week and began prototyping some of the core mechanics from these ideas to see what<\/p>\n<p>we liked and what didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>We ended up using what we learnt along with some further ideation to come out with a list of<\/p>\n<p>ideas that we would present to the client.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B61FeDSwwr4uMjR4ZGpoZUZqdGs\/view?usp=sharing<\/p>\n<p>The team finally got to go to Mountainview Elementary School, today, to meet our client<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Smith along with all the teachers and students there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10945155_10155236617940602_1332460160_n2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10945155_10155236617940602_1332460160_n2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"10945155_10155236617940602_1332460160_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10945155_10155236617940602_1332460160_n2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10945155_10155236617940602_1332460160_n2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We presented to the client the list of ideas to find out what mechanics she liked and what her<\/p>\n<p>thoughts were on what could be exposed to the children. The notes from this exciting trip can<\/p>\n<p>be found in the meeting notes below (copy the link into the browser if it doesn\u2019t work it was<\/p>\n<p>giving me some issues earlier):<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Oc2rTo9FPffci\u00adAs2byUBRCrKOfI8EfWkxmaYTbXZfI\/ed<\/p>\n<p>it?usp=sharing<\/p>\n<p>We also got to meet the teachers and students. We asked a lot questions about how the app<\/p>\n<p>would be used within the teaching space and what types of mechanics they find preferable<\/p>\n<p>compared to others such as realistic exploration vs cartoon side scrolling.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer was also able to procure for us some textbooks which we can use to tailor our<\/p>\n<p>content towards. We hope to use these books to figure out grade\u00adappropriate content. It also<\/p>\n<p>serves as a reference to choose what plants and animals we want as the rainforest has far<\/p>\n<p>too many of living things and this can helps limit us to the ones that are important for the<\/p>\n<p>teachers and children.<\/p>\n<p>With this information in hand, next week we will start working on focusing on the content and<\/p>\n<p>also to pick an idea to start developing an initial working prototype for in order to figure out<\/p>\n<p>what works for us and what doesn\u2019t. We will also start updating our website and push to get<\/p>\n<p>these newsletters up there in a neatly formatted style along with a lot of the documentation of<\/p>\n<p>our ideation process so far.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly kudos to our artists on giving our team an amazing initial poster design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10500584_1619321751629640_4260619801964916389_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10500584_1619321751629640_4260619801964916389_n1-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"10500584_1619321751629640_4260619801964916389_n\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10500584_1619321751629640_4260619801964916389_n1-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10500584_1619321751629640_4260619801964916389_n1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletter 23rd January 23rd. This was the second week of the project and where we continued the early phases of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-button read_more_btn_text\"><a class=\"read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/?p=39\">Read Now<span class=\"arrow_readm\"> &#x25BA;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/gaia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}