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?

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?