Weekly Progress

These past weeks have been the hardest part of our project by far. Integrating my good pal Jordan into the mix was tough because I had already accomplished a lot of the research. However he will still be of great use to this cause. Last week we were figuring out what type of software we will use for recording and presenting in front of people. I think we'll use Audacity for recording and use Sony Vegas for screen capturing. All that's left to do is bring Jordan over to my house and start recording.

Weekly Progress

This has been kind of a whirlwind week. I've got the blue print layout for the video and I need to get the actual software to record what I'm saying. I think that I'm going to download Audacity because I've used it before and it works really well with recording whats happening externally and whats coming through my headphones.I'm still deciding whether to use Fraps or another screen sharing software because when you record with Fraps it advertises it's name at the bottom of whatever your recording so I don't know if that would look too pretty. This week I got the layout and part of the script for what I'm saying done, and in the next week ill I'll be choosing software and starting to record!

Weekly Progress

This past week I've been undergoing the making of the final project video and this is going to take a little longer than a week. If it only took a week then the video would be composed of terrible editing and content. I want to make this video the best it can possibly be and I have about a month and a half to do it. That's obviously more time than I need to make a video. So i'll be using the other time to prepare for my presentation in the PAC trying to explain my video without showing a majority of it due to the time we have to present and how long my video will be.

Weekly Progress

This week I'm going to be doing some of my final research for the video. I've come to the point where I've researched almost everything I wanted to teach people through my video. The research I still need is how broken bones affect you at older ages. Well it's pretty simple, it's possible to get arthritis and worst case, osteoporosis. Now I want to go into construction with my video and get things actually on display.

Weekly Progress

Last week I wanted to figure out the best possible way to heal a broken while recovering. From my experience and the internet i found out that the best way is to keep the fracture elevated as much as possible, stay away from any sugar at all whatsoever, and take in as much calcium as you possibly can. The sugar is a big no no... When you take in sugar it inhibits calcium absorption that should be going to into your bones instead of the sugar. My sources are my personal experience and http://www.wikihow.com/Heal-Broken-Bones

Weekly progress

This week has been one of the biggest challenges i have faced so far. Simply because I'm at a hockey tournament up north and didn't really prioritize solid concentration on school. This is a learning lesson for me and I'll have to catch up on Monday for my failure this week. ):

Weekly Progress

This week I wanted to find out all about the surgery involved when you're in the hospital with a broken bone. First, they put you under an anesthesia to kill the pain, a cut is made over the fractured bone. Then the bone is placed in the proper position. Screws, pins, or plates are attached to or placed in the bone temporarily or permanently. Long bones may be fixed with nails placed in the bone cavity.

Any disrupted blood vessels are tied off or burned which is called cauterizing. My sources are http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/jun11/cover2.asp , and http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/otherfractures/a/fracture_2.htm My next goal is to explain the recovery of broken bones and how you should recover to get back on track quicker.