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!