Projects

- Product -

The product of this project will generate a well designed app that will allow the user to practice reading faster. The user will either pick one of the already made short stories, or they would paste a paragraph of their choice into the console. Once the written text that the user would like to practice with is recorded, the app will generate the selected quantity of words at a time at the selected speed. Over time, the app will train readers to read faster by displaying the words in the text.

- Recourses -

My initial resources in order to get the project going would be to learn the specific codes that will allow me to have the computer read the words to the user at different quantities and at different speeds. I will also have to understand how to make an app, which I have never done before. My plan, as of right now, is to make a Google Website, title it and make it presentable, and then turn it into an app using an application called Thunkable. Thunkable is both a website and an app that you can download in order to turn your website into an app. I researched and played around with the controls on the application and I understand the steps I need to take in order to turn the Google Website into an application. I am going to use Thunkable because its seems like an easy and efficient way to make an app. Originally, I was simply going to make a website, and I would just have to learn how to code the part that tells the computer to switch between the words; However, I have always wanted to learn how to make an app so I looked into it and realized that you can turn your website into an app easily.

Thunkable - App making website

Thunkable Help - Thunkable help website

Domhnall O' Hanlon - A great youtube channel that has multiple videos about Thunkable

- Learner Outcomes -

Resilient, Persistent, and Adaptable Achiever

I am choosing the resilient, persistent, and adaptable achiever as one of my learner outcomes. Being able to adapt and be resilient with your learning will allow you to learn how to overcome and take control of the area that you are trying to learn. I want to be able to be persistent with my learning. I want to see something that I really don’t understand, and actively try to overcome it. For the evidence of my growth I will be screen recording my process of learning how to insert my code with Thunkable. In the past I haven’t been so persistent with my learning, and if I wouldn’t understand a topic I would simply give up on it. So far I barely understand how Thunkable works, so if I’m able to be persistent with the application and learn how to use it, and well, then I think it will show an immense amount of persistence on my part.

Insightful and Strategic Researcher

I also plan to learn how to be an insightful and strategic researcher. I am choosing this LO to focus on because if you can successfully research alone, without help, you will be able to accomplish almost anything alone. I want to be able to be a successful independent learner and I’m going to need it when having to research new codes for my project. Because my project requires me to write a few lines of code so the computer will be able to display the words I want on the user’s screen, I will have to learn those specific codes. Also, because my previous background with coding isn’t very thorough I am hoping that actively researching ways to write and improve my code during this project will help me grow. In order to prove my growth over the project as an insightful and strategic researcher I am going to be taking screenshots of my search history. These pictures will allow people to see how long it is taking me to research new code, and how far I’ve come with my understand of code.