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.

Weekly Review Questions for 12/18/09

Have you completed any additional Civics Research for your games?

Have you changed your games, if so what educational value does the game possess?


What problems, if any did you encounter this week?

Answer these questions for your weekly review

For your weekly review you need to answer the following questions, to determine if your games are following the civics track. Please be sure to use correct grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, agreement, word usage, and capitalization in your posts.

1. What is your game topic?
2. How does your game relate to civics?
3. Being specific, with step-by-step instructions, describe your game in no less than 150 words.
4. Describe how the player will learn more about civics when playing this game in no less than 150 words.
5. Where does your game fit into the Civics knowledge framework?
6. Does your game teach about an ideal of government, a function of government, or about citizenship? Please explain

Monday 10/26

Try this site as an example of a triva game that might be fun. www.kineticcity.com/missions/nutrition/

Students want me to spoon feed the code for each and every step in the design of their game. I demonstrated how, I learn the code by watching the tutorial video, as an example I used the video in the Animation Section, on buttons; and then pausing the video, completing the steps demonstrated, restarting the video, and so on. Some of the students understood the process and were able to complete the tasks; however others just gave up. I will demonstrate one more time in hopes of having students learn the concept of self-teaching.

Your Games

Tell me the name of your team, the members and the subject of your game. Research sites that pertain to your chosen topic; each member of the team must list at least three differing sites and the URL links in your blog roll. Let me know three interesting facts, that you did not previously know, about your subject.