Almost there...

So today we finalized the idea with Mr. Blake to send out a survey to all the homeroom teachers and if they  don't respond then as a team we decided to walk around physically and pass out the surveys. The surveys consist of about four questions asking like how many students are watching, what's they're favorite part, and so on. The idea is for this survey to be sent out weekly to all the homerooms from one main computer source and with this feedback the video productions people can see if their ratings went up or down from the week prior. So today the survey was finished and tomorrow we have to go ask the Student Center if we can put it in the bulletin as well as ask for a list with all of the homeroom teachers e-mail addresses.

Continuation with no photo but that's all right

So today we finalized the basics for our program. What it will do is that after every time the daily announcement is shown, it will immediately send an e-mail that the teacher will have to confirm how many students were watching the show and a comment or two. This way if the teacher lies he/she will have to provide some type of verification to prove that he/she did make the homeroom watch the newscast. This will also help the video productions crew improve the quality because now they can receive immediate feedback on the day's show positives and negatives. So overall our program will be similar to a survey that would be sent out automatically to each teacher immediately after the show's closure.

Work in Progress

As the weekend as come we have made progress on our detailed design. Knowing and having a plan has helped us now get past this speed bump and move forward in our project. We now have to make sure we know how to get this program up and running. So, now we have to use Austin's knowledge and start to research the codes we need to make to help us get our project going. As this week is coming up we have to start to really make some serious damage and get our program going. This is a critical week but I believe we are perfectly capable of doing this.

Following Thru

Today we talked to Mr. Blake about our idea and how it could be related to physics. Well it's a little bit of a stretch but it does relate, also since it'll be a computer program instead of an actual box, we'll be saving materials, which saves Pauahi money and helps the environment. We decided that the program would be connected to one main computer and what it would do is that it would connect to the televisions on campus and it will then check to see if the televisions are tuning in to Puka Mai Ka La. This is also good because since every TV will have its own address, if a TV is absent then the program will detect precisely which TV isn't tuning in and then the video productions teacher can talk to the teacher assigned to that television and slowly by slowly every homeroom will be tuned into Puka Mai Ka La. : )

New Idea Possibly

Today we thought of a new idea since we couldn't figure out how to build this little black box. So instead we thought of a way to create a computer program that would do this instead. A group member of ours is in AP Computer Science so we are going to talk to his teacher about creating a program that counts the TVs tuning it tomorrow or within the next couple of days. This idea seems more realistic than our last because creating a computer program is something we already know how to do and with a science teacher helping us we should find a way to create this.

Dilemma

So today we had the largest problem, how to build this black box. We tried to do research on the internet but the only thing that was a little helpful was that it was a part of the Nielsen company and it was a little black box installed next to the television sets to keep count of what was being shown. We also e-mailed the KHON 2 News people hoping that they had some ideas to help us but we haven't heard back from them yet. So right now we have a solution but its not realistic in the literally making of it.

Here's a link that brought us the closest:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question433.htm

Blog Journal

As we ended the weekend our group started to really think about serious solutions that could be possible for this great feat. We are working diligently on a design to help with the Puka Mai Ka La broadcasting issue. We have gone over many times about the Nielson Company, but that is not really the solution we were looking for. We were looking more for something that could transmit a signal or something to the broadcasting station to determine how many tv's are live and watching at that time. Maybe we have to invent something or maybe there is something out there in the world that is similar and that we can add to and evolve. But we are in the process at the time of figuring it all out.