Thursday, September 13, 2007

Decoding the probe


With the clay, we found that the children really interested in making their favourite characters. These inspired us to make the character that related to traffic sign. So we decide to make the GREEN MAN & RED MAN CLAY ANIMATION.



From these drawing(Imagine when you are on the road), we found that some of them did not think about where the road is. So we claim that they did not beaware when they are on the road. According to that we would like to use design to get them to beawear of the traffic safety.


From the traffic sign cards, we found that most of children well understand about image traffic sign cards, especailly colourful sign cards. So we suggest that the message that we would like to communicate with the children should be not too much TEXT. Then we decide to make the traffic sign toy to infrom the children about traffic signs which is based on playful learning concept.


From the books, we found that they really like colorful 2D&3D books. So these inspire us to design the animation and toy with colorful design style.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Moorabbin Children Traffic School


We obsearved the Moorabbin Children Traffic School at Bentleigh.






Unfortunately they were closed because thay had no money to run their business.

Kew Traffic School


We went to Kew Traffic School.





The school was set up as the model of real live traffic situation.

Vicroads


We went to vicroads Kew office for observation and interviewing them about Road Safety Education that they provide for many school in Victoria.


At Vicroads they have a book shop and open general library to infrom people about Road Safety also include Road Safety Education for Pre and primary school.
We interviewed their staff about what information that vicroads send to primary school for traffic education.













These are the Kits that they provide in the library, some for free but some for sale.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Road Safty Education


http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/RoadSafety/RoadSafetyEducation/

This is the vicroads website that infrom you about how to be safety for road user.

Responding





Fieldwork with children

We went to the school to do the probe with the children. They are 5-10 year olds.

Preparing the probe






Firstly, we would like to do five activities with the children. Then, we bought the equipment for doing our activities.