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?