Personal Reflection (NEWater visit)

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s visit?

I learned about the 3 main taps of Singapore, how the processes of cleaning water in the NEWater plants work, and how much water is consumed or wasted by Singaporeans everyday.

2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today during the visit.
I learned about how Singapore's water supply is not everlasting if we do not do anything about it and that how foreign particles are separated from water molecules.

3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?
The 1 interesting thing I have learned today is that NEWater has three different methods of cleaning water to make sure that no or very few bacteria, viruses or foreign particles are left in the water.

4. What are the things that you can do to help with water conservation in Singapore?

I can help by using less and waste less water to help in water conservation.

Personal Reflection(9th March)

1. What are the 3 key takeaways from today’s lesson?

The three key things I learnt in this lesson were that we have to start thinking early in order to get good ideas, or we will end up with bad ideas, so we should never leave things to be done at the last minute. I also learned that everyone should help to save the environment, and we must know what the current situation very well before creating a proposal.

2. Name 2 concepts that you have learnt today pertaining to design and describe why is it important in design?
I learned that we should always come up with a few sketches and designs before we start making a certain thing to reduce mistakes. We must also make sure that it is a design which will work and be useful.

3. What is the 1 interesting thing that you have learnt today?

The 1 interesting I learnt today is that we should come up with a plan before we do anything.

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The first picture is Pasakorn, the second one is Arthur posing and the last one is wei kang

The different types of photography are sports photography, underwater photography, landscape photography, animal photography, aerial photography, architecture photography, advertising photography, documentary photography etc.

Source: http://www.shotaddict.com/wordpress/2006/10/18/1382.html

The main types of equipments for photography are the camera, tripod, lens, flashes and camera cases. Source:http://photography.about.com/od/photographyequipment/Photography_Equipment.htm

Aperture is a hole which allows us to focus on the image, and determines the sharpness of the image. It also controls the speed of the shutter. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture

The focus is for adjusting the clearness of the objects taken in the picture.

Shutter speed is the time used to take a picture. It can halve or double the amount of light the picture has. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed

ISO speed controls the fineness and number of pixels in the picture taken.

Source: My Father

In photography, metering mode determines the exposure of the items in the picture. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metering_mode

The white balance in photography is for getting the colours of the images to be as clear as possible.

Composition of photography is the most important item in photography. It is for increasing the expressiveness of the picture.

Isometric drawing is using the thing you are drawing's exact length and size to draw the picture of it.Image URL:iso3.gif

Perspective drawing is drawing from your perspective, with a vanishing point where parallel lines end at, and figures further away would be much

smaller.

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An oblique drawing is a 3 dimensional image of an object, with width as a horizontal line, but depth drawn back at any angle.

...... URL:http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0310106/oblique.html

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An orthographic drawing is a drawing with only a view of one of the object's sides shown, such as house plans.

URL:http://www.cdli.ca/depted/g7/ortho.htm

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1.ADMT means using arts, design, media and technology to create new things.

2.The attitude and ADMT student must have is perseverance.

3.My aspiration of an ADMT student is to create something useful and make things easier for others.

4.I can achieve my aspiration by working hard and thinking creatively to find out ways to create things.