Globaloria-Game Concepts

Students are working on refining their game concepts. One team went out and interviewed faculty/staff for information to incoporate into their games. The other team is moving a little slower but have set a goal to have concept refined enough to begin paper prototype next time. They came up with team names today. Good for creating team unity and getting them thinking as game designers rather than individual students. Good day today.

Globaloria-the latest

After 15 minutes of waiting for my computer to open up the blog page, I am finally on. Only now My blood pressure is up and I have to very soon race off to my daughter's socceer practice. Next week we are having statellite installed (big, long, drawn out persuasive argument with my husband-he finally caved). Globaloria I think is off to a good start. Kids are getting their ideas into focus for their games. We have our computers now, and next week we'll have flash installed. Jimmy has been leading kids through code to update wiki, user gallery, getting them set up on blogs, etc. and I've understood what he's done so far, so that's a good sign. All kids are showing a willingess to work. One has been out for a week due to illness-that concerns me. I can catch him up though. Been superbusy between yearbook and my English classes. Have been focusing most energy getting those things off the ground first. Hope to turn more energy to this program now, especially now that everyone has his/her own computer and is not constantly on mine.

Playing to Learn day 2

Students seem very enthusiastic and had insightful things to say about the games they evaluated (we had them present at the Smartboard). They are starting to formulate ideas about what they would like to create. It's exciting to see them excited. Jimmy and I have created our own lesson plans for them, which have worked well, but we need to make sure they cover the assignments under course topics also --just to make sure we cover all bases.

sept 8

Ok. Mr. Allder noticed that I haven't been blogging so I figured I better get on it. I actually have been "blogging" in my curriculum notebook on paper, but obviously that doesn't count. It is a habit deeply etched habit, however. Blogging on the internet is a strange feeling--it kinda makes me paranoid. My thoughts are out there for everyone to see--scary. I feel class is going well. All my classes are starting to settle into a routine, so I will get into a flow with this class shrotly, and we will take off. It's been great team teaching. I think this set up will prove very successful.