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Team Energy Sharing, results from the 27.03.2020, calculations

Hello Together

Here can you find our results and calculations from the 27.03.2020:

Für unsere Berechnungen haben wir uns ein virtuelles Quartier ausgedacht. Es handelt sich dabei um 20 Einfamilienhäuser mit durchschnittlich 3 Personen pro Haushalt. Für dieses Quartier werden wir im nächsten Schritt auch noch eine Skizze/Quartierplan machen. Mit den Ergebnissen unseres letzten Posts gerechnet bedeutet das, dass dieses Quartier ca. 104'000 kWh Energie im Jahr verbraucht (Stromverbrauch Einfamilienhaus)

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Results Game-Sharing

Hello Everyone

Last week, we forgot to show you our results of our gamesharing tasks. We want to apologise for that

We thought of a way of how people can share games efficiently. We found out, that there are two options (if you have more, feel free to inspire us in the comments!)

Option 1 : Sharing function on the PS4. The PS4 is the most popular console in this world and luckily, it has some sort of sharing functions, where two players can share all of their games together. It works like that. Every player has an own account and own console. Now, the two player need to log in to the other players console and mark their PS4 as their own PS4.  Like that, the original owner, can download all the games the other player bought. It is some sort of tricking around the system. The problem with this method is, that you can only share downloaded games and not the ones bought on a cd. But that's why we thought of a different method.

Option 2 : Share the Gaming CD's. First of all we thought of sharing the whole console. But not all of us live together with their gaming partner and that's why this method would have taken away a lot of fun. In addition to that, the gamers wouldn't be able to play at the same time.

So, we thought about of buying and sharing games together. This method would save a massive amount of CD's and a lot of energy would be spared. The only disadvantage would be, that the gamers cannot play the same games at the same time. But if they're anyway only storygame-players, this wouldn't cause any problems.

Either way, both methods would save a lot of energy, as downloading games and burning CD's uses a huge amount of energy.

So what did we do? We tried out the sharing function on the PS4 and started to play together. To be honest, we where very impressed and overwhelmed. We gave each other our log-in informations and started to play games TOGETHER, while only one of us bought the games. It didn't have any disadvantages, as we both only buy games online and not per CD. The only thing you need here is trust, because you give away each other your informations.

Then we asked some friends of ours, if they use this function too. And, impressingly, they don't. A lot of us don't even know about this function. So we started to inspire our friends to use this function while saving money, energy and downloads.

Today, we want to send out a survey to all the gamers we know. Stay tuned!

Best regards,

Rezon and Deia

M17a - Special: Lectures will be held as a distance learning experiment II

Dear M17a students, please check out your program & tasks and get in contact via Office365 Teams as indicated here: https://2020.the-horse.education/page/m17a-program-and-tasks

Meetings via Office365 Teams at least to the following hours with me (all class members), you have to be online during this time for teacher's questions and discussions:
Start of lecture 1: 13:20
     Teacher's talk with teams and accessible for questions
     Have a break 14:00
Start of lecture 2: 14:10
     Teacher's talk with teams and accessible for questions
Class meeting end of lectures: 14:55

 

=>Note reg. your project steps and research tasks: You must post your content and results of the steps directly on The Horse (e.g. research step with links and media you found regarding your Sharing topic!), all steps and material so far should be transparent on The Horse, provided with the corresponding team category!

Step 5 - Reflection

Hello everyone

We tend to consider it a given that sharing is a good thing. As children, we're taught (and made) to share our toys, our crayons, and our rooms. As we age, our toys and our personal space become larger and more expensive, and we share them less and less, but we still value the idea of sharing. There are lots of ways to share resources as adults, including shared gardens, food, meals, jobs and many more. More...

End of first T&U distance learning

Your progress of project work should be visible on The Horse, as well as the research links, media & material and all Befter steps!

=>Please add the appropriate Team Category to all your team posts! Inform your teacher if they are missing.

Additional material in Program & Tasks

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20.03.2020

Hello together

Today I made some research about existing Projects in future carsharing systems. I did also research, how much energy you can save by doing carsharing.

 Best regards

Nathan

Step 1 imagination - book sharing

Hello everyone,

We decided to change our topic. The new topic is "book sharing". The focus will be on textbooks.

  • Can we share or exchange textbooks between generations?
  • Would there also be disadvantages?
  • What other books can we share?
  • Will there be no more books at some point?
  • Could e-books then also be shared?

These are the main questions that Maria and I would like to answer and thus start our research.

We are looking forward to the results!

 

Best regards,

Maria and Deniz

 

Step 3 - Experience

Hello everyone

We would like to share with you our experience that we had during working on this project. First of all, we really enjoyed working on this project because it was a new challenge for us to create an app. We struggled a bit to find the right tool to create an app. The main problem was that most tools were not free. So that's why we decided to create the app SHARE-it on Powerpoint. We spent a lot of time on this because we wanted to finish this project so quick as possible.

with kind regards

Lars & Dharany