Sustainable+Housing+Website

__Website Design Day__
Williamstown Primary School – August 13 & 14, 2007.


 * Focus Question**

What are the challenges to making a truly sustainable home?
===How can we keep development of new home as sustainable as possible? Can current homes be retro fitted with new technologies to make them green? What is the importance of green building materials? What strategies and new technologies can be used in the home to save water, waste and energy? What future technologies could be used to in home to allow for more efficient water and energy use? Can you design a completely sustainable home from the bottom up?===

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Monday August 13th 2007 We started work on our website on sustainable housing today and the home page is coming along nicely the comic is nearly finished and the movies are just editing. We have some posters being made on "Comic Life" about things like the waterwall and electricity and also other things. The podcast is about halfway through and is sounding really good. Another update soon.
 * Journal**

Tuesday August 14th 2007 Over the past two days, Amy and Hannah have been working on a podcast. Amy and Hannah already knew how to use garageband but they needed reminding on how to make a podcast so then all that they really needed to do next was the script. It took them about two hours to make a good script and one hour to record and put in photos for the podcast. They learnt how to put photos on the podcast for when someone is talking and about how to not use as much energy and appliances as we do. Doing little things like using door seals and not using as many lights can help save the environment and make the world a better place.
 * Journal**

Hi, my name is Daniel and I am from Williamstown High School. I have been working on the front cover using iWeb which I found fun to use and quite easy. I made the main website and designed the layout. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot about iWeb. I would definitely do it again. I also made a poster using Comic Life which I also enjoyed.
 * Journal**

Hi I’m Julian from Williamstown High and for the past two days I’ve been working on a podcast on sustainable living it’s been great fun to learn how to make a podcast using garageband that was really fun then I also made the water wall poster using comic life that was cool it’s a really fun program well the both were I’m so glad I was chosen for this program and hopefully my podcast won't come back to haunt me.
 * Journal**

Well Zoe, Eddie and Sanjeev have made 2 movies, one is about a person who doesn't want to sit on a chair because its made from wood. and the other is a interview of sustainibility. They have also created a poster about how you can be more sustainable. We discovered a lot in the past two days and its been really fun. We needed some reminding on how to do a movie on iMovie and now they do.
 * Journal**

Hi I'm Eliot I have enjoyed this program very much. I made a house plan. It is not very complicated like other designs. I also made a comic about changing lightbulbs. This program is really good. I leaned more I.C.T. skills than I would have without this program
 * Journal**

Hi, I'm Eddie. Over the past two days I've been coming here to make a website. I've been involved with all the movies. I made the movie about sustainable gardens and composed music for it using GarageBand. We were all impressed with Comic Life.
 * Journal**