Have you always wanted to know more about how gaming affects our environment?
Then check out our article about video games and the environment in Switzerland and India!
https://dontwastemy.energy/2023/05/23/video-games-and-the-environment-how-are-they-related/
By Damian & Christian
- Start planing what we want to publish exactly on DWME
- Post an update to our IDAF
- Do the tasks
Our project is on a good way. We have everything we need and the only thing that is left, is the text that we want to publish on DWME. We have pictures for the project, from me and Damian but unfortunately the students from Kerala dont want to send us pictures of them. Only Advaith did send us one of him and his laptop. The others do not want a picture of them to be published.
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Every end product of our IDAF
Below you can find all our end products related to IDAF. Our article as well as the German assignments are in the attachment. Damian and I are very happy with our work and that we finished it.
Der Reichste Mensch aller Zeiten - Damian.pdf (177.42 kb)
Glosse - Christian.pdf (83.52 kb)
Grafiken.pptx (96.66 kb)
Videospiele und Umwelt - von Damian Koelliker & Christian Schepperle.pdf (107.55 kb)
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Articel ready for publishing
On Wednesday afternoon Damian and I finished writing our article and had a quick look at it with Mrs. Mittelholzer. We then sent it to the newspaper and are waiting for their response. Below you can find our finished article.
Videospiele und Umwelt - Wie hängt das zusammen?
Videospiele sind bei vielen Menschen sehr beliebt und werden gerne in der Freizeit gespielt. Die
durch das Spielen erhitzten Computer können sogar ein Zimmer ohne Heizung auf kuschelige
Temperaturen aufheizen. Da eröffnet sich uns die Frage: Wie umweltschädlich sind Videospiele
tatsächlich? Um das herauszufinden haben wir uns in einer Zusammenarbeit mit Schülern aus Indien
dieser Frage gewidmet und ein Experiment durchgeführt.
Die Schüler aus Indien berichten, dass Gaming-Hardware in ihrem Land unverhältnismäßig teuer ist
und deshalb viele Inder nur auf Smartphones oder Laptops spielen. Einige von ihnen nutzen ihre
elektronischen Geräte so lange wie möglich und kaufen beispielsweise nur alle 10 Jahre ein neues
Smartphone. Dies ist ein wichtiger Ansatzpunkt für mehr Nachhaltigkeit im Umgang mit
elektronischen Geräten und sollte auch bei uns in der Schweiz zur Vorbildfunktion werden. More...
We have received a response from a newspaper! They seem interested and want us to send them our article. They want to see the article first and then decide whether to publish it.
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Last week we started writing our article and composing an E-Mail to send to various media channels. Together we first wrote a summary of the interview and the results of the experiment in a document.
Today we created graphics for the article, showing the numbers of the results of the experiment. We have sent the summary and the graphs to our Indian colleagues by E-Mail with the question if they can ever send us a picture of themselves and we can publish this as well as their names.
We also emailed several newspapers asking if they would be interested in our article. We have sent everyone the same mail. We have written to the following newspapers: More...
We have written a draft of a possible article and included it below. Of course, this is still being revised and there may be further additions.
Videospiele und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt
Wir interessieren uns schon lange für Videospiele und lieben es, diese zu spielen. Als wir uns in der Schule intensiv mit dem Klimawandel auseinandergesetzt haben, stellten wir uns die Frage, wie umweltschädlich Videospiele tatsächlich sind. Deshalb wollten wir mehr über dieses Thema erfahren. über unsere Lehrerin bekamen wir den Kontakt zu drei Schülern aus Indien, Advaith, Fadil und Manas. Sie spielen auch sehr gerne diverse Videospiele und daher dachten wir es wäre eine gute Gelegenheit ihre Sicht zum Zusammenhang zwischen Videospielen und der Umwelt zu erfahren. Sie haben uns erzählt, dass Computerspiele in Indien sehr weit verbreitet sind, jedoch spielen viele Inder nur auf ihren Smartphones oder Laptops. More...
Status:
Two weeks ago Damian and I made a list of different games and sent it to our colleagues in India. We, as well as our friends abroad, played these games and wrote down the energy consumption. Last Sunday we had a second meeting with the students from India. This was rather short as we only collected the results of our experiment and discussed the next steps.
Next steps:
- Calculate the results
- Write an E-Mail to the Indians with the next steps
- Evaluate the results of the first interview
- Come up with more questions to ask the stundents from India
- Set the next date for the third meeting
- Write an article to publish it
- more to come...
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Hello guys! Our project is about how gaming effects the environment. Have you ever thought that this is possible at all? If you are interested in how firmly gaming harms our environment, this would be the project for you.
There are many different ways to use media. In our project we needed Zoom for the meetings with the students from India and Outlook for the communication as well as Whats App.
For publishing following possibilities are considered:
- Interview: Audio or Video
- Results: Calculations
- Numbers to calculate the results: World Wide Web
- The whole documentation: Article and evt. visit to a radio station
We already have some of the results of the experiment and are now calculating them. Our friends from India are eventually writing a small article as well.
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Status:
Before the sports vacations we presented our project idea at the Zoom meeting. In the Zoom meeting were our class of BMVZ 22 and a school class from India. During the sports vacations Damian and I were busy elsewhere. We saw only at the end of the vacations that people were interested in our project. They wrote their mail and name in the mural. We plan to contact these people and tell them more about our project. We haven't arranged a meeting yet. We are still discussing how we want to do the experiment(s).
Interested participants from India:
Manas
E-Mail: manasjishith@gmail.com
Advaith
E-Mail: advaithnair28@gmail.com
Next Steps:
- Discuss whether collaboration is an option
(- if a collaboration is in question, establish contact)
- Final decision which games to take and how exactly we want to measure/do it
(- explain the further procedure to the collaboration partner)
- Write down and compare our results
- Summarize and document everything
- more to come...
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