Weekly post for 12/17

Find a .swf file you like from another Globaloria team in your Knowledge Community and embed it on your blog (check out Blogging Tips if you don't know how). Be sure to properly credit the team or user who created the .swf by naming them and hyperlinking back to their page.

How do you plan to use sound in your game? How will it help enhance the game play and learning experience of your game? 

Weekly Blog Post 12/10/11

I would like you to think about your game and answer the following question:  Can your game be both a Civics and Stem Game? In order for you to make an informed decision and answer the above question, I have added links to the definition of Civis (Civics Definition) and Stem (Stem Definition). In addition, please list five game ideas that could be both Civics and Stem Games.

weekly Blog 12/3

Reflect on the class so far. Do you like working in flash? Why or why not?
Respond to one of your classmates

Weekly Blob for 11/15 to 11/19

Explore your Knowledge Community and find a research link you find helpful from another student's blog. Write a post explaining why this is a useful resource, link back to the blog of the student who originally posted it, and add the link to your blogroll. If you can't find anything of use from your peers' blogrolls, do some research and suggest a new resource that you found on your own.


Comment on the blog of another Globaloria student in your Knowledge Community!

Weekly Blog for 11/8 to 11/12

Creating scenes in a sequence helps game designers tell the "story" of their game through a narrative. How are you using visual storytelling through your sequence of scenes to help players learn about your topic? What are examples of games you played in the Playing to Learn topic that use storytelling to teach a concept well? How have other narrative games influenced your game?


Comment on the blog of another Globaloria student in your Knowledge Community!

**** Be sure to change the date to automatic in the posting  date and time options section.  (If you do not you will receive a 0 for this post.)

Update your Individual Weekly Blog

Answer the questions below in complete sentences using correct grammar and punctuation.

• Why would you use folders to organize your scenes?
• What function do keyframes have?

Weekly Blog Post for 10/29

Update your individual Blog


List a new idea or concept (not just a "fact") you've learned about your game topic since you started this course. How did you come to learn this? What sources where helpful to you in gaining this understanding? What makes these news or research sources especially informative and trustworthy?

Comment on the blog your assigned Globaloria student in your Knowledge Community!

Special Video Blogging Assignment (REQUIRED and due by Wednesday 10/27/10)

Please respond to this blog post to let me know you have read and understand the instructions.

1. Create a Video Blog (Vlog) with your teammates

• Work together to make a video where you answer these questions about your process so far. Every team member should participate in the video, then you can ALL upload the SAME video on each of your individual blogs.
• The Big Idea: Describe your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn?
• Making Decisions as a Team: How did your individual ideas from "Imagining Your Game" come together for your team game topic? How did your team decide the topic?
• Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together.
• Research: What kind of research went into the way you will express the game topic?
• The User Experience: Explain the game play. What actions does the player take in the game? Has this changed since you first started planning your game? Why? Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources?
• Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty?

2. Comment on another Vlog

Watch the video blog of another Globaloria student, as assigned below in your Knowledge Area and leave them a comment! From now until the end of the year; you will communicate with the person assigned to you; make sure they are added to your blogroll.
Bart: mattsglobaloriaobservaions.blogspot.com
Dakota: noah2hhs2010.blogspot.com
BrentS: acarter5.blogspot.com
Matt: tanner3805.blogspot.com
BrentA: tyler1hhs2010.blogspot.com
Daniel: nickboy334.blogspot.com
JacobF: jaredhhs.2010.blogspot.com
Joshia: jordanhhs2010.blogspot.com
Drew: katim.1994.blogspot.com
Raymond: shannonmarie2011.blogspot.com
Brandan: leppem.blogspot.com
Zane:  harrisonhhs2010.blogspot.com
Roger:  kenny5289.blogspot.com
Shane: daniel1492.blogspot.com
Isaac:  seanhhs2010.blogspot.com
Travis: 2brany95.blogspot.com
Brandan H: ashley0894.blogspot.com
JacobS:mastersensei010-anything.blogspot.com

Internet Security

Internet Security is a paramount concern of educators and the Globaloria staff.  To assure that students understand why Internet Security is so important you will need to answer the questions below:

• Should you respond or talk to people you do not know, on line, outside the Globaloria Community?
• Can you be sure the person you are talking to has actually represented themselves accurately?
• Why do we ask you to hide  your personal information?
• Why must you never give your Social Security Number or bank account number to anyone online?

Team Picture

This is to be accomplished by Wednesday:

 Post a picture of your team and complete the following tasks

• Name the team roles.
• What is your role in the team?
• Why are you good at this job?  
• What is the hardest part about working in teams?

 

Wekly post for 10/4 to 10/7

1. Copy these questions and answer ALL of these questions about your Game Idea, that you discussed in the Imagining Your Game section, in a blog post, on your blog in complete sentences:

•  WHO are you designing your game for? (Include the player's age, abilities, and prior knowledge of your topic.)
• WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic? (Be specific!)
• WHERE does your game happen?
• Describe to the to the world how you will design your game.
• How will this setting add to the learning experience?
• HOW does your game teach the player about your topic?
• What happens in the  game world that helps the player learn?
• How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game?
• WHY is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz?

2. Comment on the blog of another Globaloria student in your Knowledge Community!

Weekly Blog

Please post on your blog the answers to the following questions or complete the criteria (Be sure to answer in complete sentences with correct grammar and spelling):

• What topic and sub-category you would like to design a game for and why?
• What genre does your game fit into?
• Give a brief description of your game
• What is the educational value (what will students learn)?

You will find two people in your Knowledge area (stem) and post to their blog.  Let me know on your wiki talk page which two people, in what school, you have blogged with, add a digital signature to your wiki talk page.  Also please add those two people to your blog roll.

Weekly Blog Post

On Thursday you should have uploaded between 4 and 7 steps of your game and placed them on the wiki


You need to now place each one of the steps on your projects page by using the code found on your Mini Game Project Page under "embed them here."

First, make sure you have uploaded your Flash .SWF file to the Wiki successfully. Just remember what filename it is called (example: FILENAME.swf) and plug it into the wik tag that you will find on the MiniGame Project Page under the category of "How to Publish your game.

Please answer the following question which are to posted on your blog.
Do you play games in your free time? Which ones do you play and why are they your favorite? Does this topic give you a new perspective about playing games? Why or why not?


Comment on one of your classmate's blogs or the blog of a student in your Knowledge Community!

Games

The assignment for this week is for each student to find an educational game dealing with Technology and post it, as a link,  on your blog.  Be be sure to review the game to insure that the language, video, and graphics are appropriate and adhere to school rules.  Please play the game and write a short review of the game using correct sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and word usage.

Choosing a Topic

Write a blog post introducing yourself, your topic and why you think these links (for the games you played, stem page, and for other schools) will help you research your topic.

Explore your Knowledge Community.

Find at least three other students in the Globaloria community beyond your classroom with a similar or related topic.

Comment on their blog and add them to your blogroll.

Pictures and Video

Picture and Video Editing Assignment

1. Please find an appropriate video relating to flash and upload it to your blog.

2. Try using the blogger video button, by going to design, then gadgets, and add the button to upload videos to your blog.

3. Respond to my post to let me know you have viewed the assignment.

4. Respond to two students in the class by positively commenting on their video upload.

Welcome

Welcome to South Harrison's High School Globaloria Class for 2010/2011.

I am so excited to start the new year off with new students, and exciting game ideas. During the year we will be learning how to construct educational games using Flash. This class will be collaborating with an online community and each other, as well as, learning from and teaching new ideas and concepts to the Globaloria community.

During the first two weeks you will be completing the necessary forms in order to participate in this class, set up a Gmail account, Google account, blog, and wiki page. After that we will start on the Globaloria Curriculum and game construction.

Your assignments will be posted on the South Harrison Wiki.Please check the wiki (click here to go to the wiki) daily to complete the assigned work.

Respond to this post with at least four sentences for points: Use complete sentences, grammar, word usage, and spelling.

My Civics Engagment

This site has many links to resources on the bottom of your Community's page. Please use these links as they are valuable tools in the further development of your civis games.

Week of March 8

The blog prompt on the Civics Engagement Site for this week is available. Please make sure that you answer the question, from your category and respond to at least two students in your category. Students teams, in Multimedia Digital Imaging II, will need to submit a Blog Prompt on the above Website, as well. Don't forget to register for the new Globaloria Contest from the handouts distributed today. Your demo for the Civics contest is due on Friday March 12.

Blog Prompt for February 23

Please be sure to go The Civics Engagement and complete your blog post according to the Ideals, Functions, or Citizenship Category you have been assigned to. Respond to two blog posts, for students, in your category, from another school. Remember to write a blog prompt for next week and post in by choosing either the Ideals, Function or Citizenship Blog Prompt Submission Form. In addiditon, post something to the Globaloria Spotlight.

Assignment for February 15

Please complete the following assignments:

1. Upon completion of your commercial, on Monday, March 1, 2010, providing there are no more snow days; please post it on your individual projects page; with an explanation of the process in completing the assignment. Please let me know through the blog if you have any problems.

2. You all have completed "Playing to Learn" and need to indicate this on your projects page.

3. Globaloria told me to "Remind your students to upload fla when they upload swf and a good thing is to place it as a link under the fla"

Code solutions

In the New Year, we will solve the code glitches. Upon contacting Meridith, at Globaloria; she indicated that students were to ask code questions on her talk page. This can be accomplished by going to the user gallery and selecting Meredith's picture. This will bring you to her wiki; click the talk page, ask a question, and hyperlink your fla game file. Meredith indicated that she will respond to all questions to the best of her ability.