Thursday, February 26, 2009

Progress 7

Today, I was supposed to research my topic and create more index cards. I did just that. I researched through many sites and created 4 index cards. This will help me with my project by furthering my knowledge of the topic so I can give a more accurate final product. My next action is to continue to research and create index cards.

Index 18

This site portrays one of the most common and biggest skateboarding corporations in the world.

Index 17

This site allows you to look over and purchase old school skateboards.

Index 16

This site allows you to design your own custom skateboard with countless possibilities.

Index 15

This site allows you to design your own custom skateboard.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Progress 6

So today, I was supposed to research my topic some more. I did exactly that. I continued to research and I also found 2 videos that portrayed some of my information visually and turned them into index cards. This will help me complete my project in the long run because first it gives me more information on my topic and second because it will help me to figure out how I want to do the visual aspect of my presentation. My next step is to continue to research and create index cards.

Index 14

This video portrays what different skateboarding tricks and stunts look like using a mixture of parkway north and central kids.

Index 13

This is a demonstration of what the dangers of skating can be and it is using a parkway north student.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Progress 5

My next action entering the day was to research and create index cards. I have done them both. I went through many sites and created 6 index cards. This will help me in the end because it just brings me a couple steps closer to having the knowledge to be able to successfully make my project. My next action is to continue researching and creating index cards.

Index 12

This website goes over the science factor of skateboarding.

Index 11

Another timeline over the events of the lifespan of skateboards.

Index 10

It is a timeline of the life of skateboards from there beginning until the present.

Index 9

It shows an image of what long boards look like.

Index 8

It tells us the dynamics behind skating.

Index 7

Skateboards started out as just wooden boxes on roller skate wheels and then evolved.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Progress 4

So today, my next action was to continue researching and creating index cards. I researched and created 3 index cards. This will help me in my project because it will allow to present the best presentation possible because it gave me more information about my topic to work with and it also gave me a video example of my topic. My next action is to continue researching and creating index cards.

Index 6

It is a video portraying skateboarding and demonstrating how it looks with kids from both parkway north and central skating, participating, and filming it.

Index 5

It is an overview of how tricks evolved and based on tricks of the time changed the shape of boards many times.

Index 4

It is the evolution of skateboarding for everything from the way the boards are built to media to tricks.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Progress 3

My next action entering the day was to research my topic and create index cards. I researched my topic. I went through many websites and made 3 index cards. What I did today will help to answer my question by giving information that I didn't otherwise know, so I can answer it to the best of my ability. My next action is to continue to research and make index cards.

Index 3

This site explains skateboarding and its progression through the eyes of actual skaters.

Index 2

It goes over the design of skateboards from the begging until the present.

Index 1

It basically tells you the timeline of skateboarding and how it has changed over time step by step.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Progress 2

My next action entering the day was to pick my research topic and question. Today, I decided my research topic would be skateboarding and the specific question would be how did skateboards evolve over time? It helped answer my research question because if I didn't do it then there wouldn't be a research question. My next action is to start researching.

Product Prospectus

1.How did skateboards evolve over time? 2.A series of skateboards in different styles. 3.It shows the chain of how they evolved. 4.A line of skateboards with notecards on top explaining each step in the evolutionary track of skateboards. 5.It shows in depth knowledge of how they evolved over time. 6.I need to research from the begginning of skateboarding until now to look at each model of skateboards in order to put into an evolutionary pattern. 7.I need to research the evolutionary pattern of skateboards next.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Progress 1

Today, I was supposed to setup a blogger and delicious account. I did both of those things. Those two things helped with answering my research question by making a blog so Mr. Nilsen can check up on me and help me and by making a delicious account will help with saving sources to use for my project. My next action is to pick my topic and define a specific question within it.