Weekly Blog 12/15/11

You have registered for the Globaloria game contest.  How did you find the process?  Did you experience any problems?  Answer the questions in complete sentences.

Your Learning Log Category is Scenes.

Weekly Blog for 12/9/11

While working on your Primary Game scene this week, what problems, if any, did you encounter? Discuss your primary game scene and the action you added to a Symbol so it could move up and down, or right and left using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Finally, indicate if you will use this scene in your game.  Use the Primary Scene category in your Learning Log.

Weekly Blog Post for 12/2/11

In the past couple of  weeks we have completed  tutorials that teach, star shapes, drawing tools, and a character who walks using Blank Key Frames.  Please discuss each one of the tutorials and tell me which  one you will use in your game?

Weekly Blog Post for 11/18/11

You have completed tutorials that demonstrated Using the Pen, Brush and Fill tools: As well as completing a star with different fills.  You also traced an object, recolored it and saved it as a flash file.   Choose one of the tutorials you completed this week and tell me how you will use it in your game?

Have a nice Thanksgiving Break

Weekly Blog for November 3, 2011

Answer the questions in complete sentences.

Did you enjoy making the paper prototype?
If yes what was the best part?
If you did not like making the paper prototype tell me why?

Your learning log entry will be Paper Prototype for 3 hours.  In the comment section tell what you did this week.

Weekly Post for 10/27/11

We have started the paper Prototype and gone over the requirements.  Please answer the following questions concerning your paper Prototype:

1. What kind of game is it?
2. What social issues does the game discuss?
3. What is the main goal of the game?
4. What is the main activity of the game? (e.g., platforming, puzzle solving, or others)
5. Are there any problems with how the game works?

In your learning log use the Paper Prototype category, the hours are 3, and the description should indicate how far you have come on the paper prototype.

Weekly Blog for 10/21/11

Blog about your Team game idea. How did your team work together to come up with the idea and all the details of the game? What excites you most about your game idea?

• Comment on the blog of another Globaloria student!
• Let me know the name of the persons blog you commented on.

Weekly Blog for 11/14/11

Now that your have worked in the Choosing Your Topic, and Imagining your Game; has your game plan changed?  List one interesting fact you uncovered in the researching your game.  Which game in your stem or civics category did you like best? Indicate the name of the game and add a the link in your blog post.   Respond to one of your classmates blogs and tell me who you responded to in your blog post for this week.

Weekly Blog for 10/7/11-Choosing your topic

Copy and answer ALL of these questions about your Game Idea in your blog post:

• 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 the world you will design for your game.
  • How will this setting add to the learning experience?

• HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic?
  • What happens in the 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!

• Paste the link to your comment here!

Weekly Blog for 10/30/11-Mini Game

Check your grades on Live Grades as the six weeks ends on Friday.

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 another student's blog on this topic.

Weekly Blog for 9/22/11

Write a Blog post to reflect on which of these genre(s) are you most interested in using for your own game idea. What did you learn from your choice of games and genres to review?
Name any game features that stood out to you, either because they were interesting or because they could be improved.
Write down any questions you have about the game or genre you chose. You might answer them yourself later!

Comment on another student's blog on this topic and let me know in your blog post which student you commented on?

Weekly Blog for 9/16/11

Today we worked in the Meet Flash Category.
Please tell me about what you learned today.

Joining the Community- blog for the week of 9/12/11

Answer these questions on your blog:From the Joining the Community category on the left side of your wiki page.

1. What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?
2. Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?
3. Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?
4. How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?

Weekly Blog Post

This week you learned how to add a gadget in your blog. You also added your classmates to your blog list. Your assignment this week is to add another gadget to your blog; Tell me in your post what gadget you added and why. Also visit someone in your class and tell me their name and what gadget they added. Also tell if you liked the gadget your classmate added.

Weekly Blog for 4/15/11

Last week we filmed our game demo's, uploaded and converted those demos on viddler, posted the film on our wiki and submitted our entries to the stem game competition. Please answer the questions concerning the process:

Should you have practiced your script more?

Did you feel prepared to film?

Overall how do you feel about the finished demo film?

Blog Post for 4/1/11

This week we have been working on the Team Pages, combining our games, fixing the code and adding scenes to the team games. In two to three complete sentences write a post about your experiences for this weeks assignment. Respond to one of your classmates.

Weekly Blog for 3/18/11

This week we spent working on our games. Tell me what progress you have made? Some of you expressed an interest in demonstrating tutorials, if so have you made any progress, in this area? Please list at least three sites you have accessed for help in your game.

Weekly Blog for 3/10/11

This week we had a demonstration on how to use buttons to stop and start sounds. Did you find this demonstration useful. Explain why you might want viewers to be able to turn on or turn off music in your game.

Think about a demonstration you would like to have shown in the class room. Tell me whether or not you would be willing to find the information for and demonstrate how to complete the category of your choice.

On Monday when you return to school respond to my comment on your blog.

Weekly Blog for 3/5/11

We completed the Artifiical Intelligence section of the curriculum. How did you like this section? Did you have any problems, if so explain what section you had the problem in? Do you think that this session had useful tutorials and demonstrations that you might use in your game?

Weekly Post 2/25/11

Write a Blog post about the Jumping and Platform topic, share your learning experience! Were the instructions clear? Were their any instructions you felt were missing. Were you able to finish the tutorial? Will you use this tutorial in your game? If you will use Jumping and Platforms, please describe how you will use it.

Weekly Blog 2/18

Write a blog about the timer category that we went over on the Globaloria curriculum. Tell me how you would use this in your team game. How could you make the timer go faster? How would you rate this tutorial using a number from 1 to 10; 10 being the best and 1 being the lowest rating. Tell me why you gave it the rate you used.

Weekly Blog 2/11/11

What tricks did you complete in the Custom Cursor category. What type of custom cursor did you make, and how did you like the category?

Weekly Blog 2/4/11

Write a Blog post about the Preloader and Status Bar categories in the Action Script section of your curriculum. Share your learning experience and respond to one person in your class.

Weekly Blog Prompt Post for 1/21/11

Since you have started working on your team games, you have completed independent learning, by going to either the Globaloria curriculum or sites on the Internet to help you in developing code for your games. In at least three sentences, tell me where you went to gain additional knowledge, what you learned, and insert in your blog post a link to the site.

Weekly blog for 1/6/11

Write a Blog post, on your individual blog, about this the Collision Detection topic, share your learning experience!
Answer the following questions in a complete sentence:

• Did you find the Collision Detection tutorial useful?
• Will you use some of the codes provided in the ball and platform sample as well as, the keeping objects from flying off the stage code on the wiki?
• Did you like the Fly Catcher game?
• Will you be able to use the code from fly catcher game in your team Stem games?