Thoughts...

The first thing to pop into my head? Well, that's a tough one. I'm constantly thinking and changing my mind about absolutely everything. It's really quite confusing at times. So I guess I'll do the best I can to fish something out.



Right now, I've got Friday on the brain, I suppose. I've got Christmas breakfast and present opening at my Nina and Pawpaw's, and then I'm going to my Nawnie's so that I can help her make dinner. I'm making baked ziti, and she's making steaks, I think. I'll also help her get the house ready for the evening. We're having dinner and opening presents there, and then I'll finally go home to get ready for Christmas day.

Oh, another thought I have! The cheerleaders have to sing at the assembly we have today. Great. Just what I really want to do, sing in front of the rest of our school. Yeahh, lovely. Can you see my excitement? Didn't think so. :)

Goals..

Some goals I have in this class would be...

• Understanding computers better.
• Learning computer codes for some things.
• Actually improving on some skills I could need for other classes.

Some of the bad habits I would like to break would be-

• Remembering to update my learning log, I always forget!
• Remembering to do my blogging for the week. Well, when Blogger actually works, that is. :)

Back To School

My Thanksgiving break was pretty bad, so I'm pretty glad to be back to school. Although today has been pretty bad, as well. So, I'm not sure I want to be here, now either. Everything lately has been so confusing, but I guess that's life for you and it'll eventually even out. Or, I hope it does, anyways.

Thanksgiving Break

It's the last day of school before Thanksgiving Break, and I couldn't be more excited. For one thing, I'm excited for sleeping in next week and not having school, and I'm excited to see my family on Thanksgiving. That will be the busiest day for me next week. Monday through Wednesday, I have to babysit, and then Thursday, I go to around 3 different houses visiting people. It'll be exhausting, but fun.

Mini Game Assigment

So, we're supposed to be doing the mini game assignment, but some of the laptops won't work with Flash. We're trying to find out which ones do and which ones don't work, so that we can fix that problem and move on. I guess once I finish this blog, I'll find out if mine works or not.

3 Time Regional Champions!

So, we won the cheerleading competition, and now we go on to States! This is the third year in a row we've won regionals, and we are so excited. We're hoping to take a title in states this year. South Harrison took second place, followed by Charleston Catholic, and then Valley Fayette. However, only us and South Harrison go to States.




As for football, we beat Independence on Friday, and now we travel to Williamstown this Friday to start playoffs. So, we'll see how we do.

Fayetteville Football/ Cheerleading Competition.

Tonight's our final game against Independence, and I think we're going to win. Then, we have playoffs and we'll see how far we advance. I hope we don't have to play Wheeling Central, because that ride would be terrible.

Tomorrow is regionals for our cheerleading competition. I'm not competing, but as a part of the team, I'm going to support my girls. I believe we'll do pretty well. We definitely are capable of winning and getting our "3 peat." Wish us luck! :)

Globaloria

Globaloria is definitely not what I expected it to be. I didn't expect to have to keep up with so much, and doing so much planning for a game. I guess its all in making sure everything will be right for the finished game. I think I'm going to have difficulty with keeping up with things the most. I forget to blog twice a week (hence why I'm doing it now), and I always forget to do my learning log. I guess I'll eventually do better, but for now, I've got to keep working on it.

Game topic.

I switched groups recently, and now the topic for the game my group is doing now is bullying.

Game Reviews

GAME REVIEW #1: MOST EFFECTIVE Learning Game

• Name of the game that taught you the MOST about its learning topic: Medical Mysteries
• What social issue or educational topic does the game explore? Diseases and how some of them are cured.
• What can you learn from this game? How different diseases react with medicines.
• What game genre is it? Do you think this genre is a good choice for creating a learning game? Why or why not? Adventure, yes. It helps learn through viewing.
• Design Analysis (Does it look good? Does it clearly illustrate the issue or learning concept?) Yes, it explains the issue very well.
• Usability Analysis (Is it clear what you need to do as a player? Does it work well?) It gives the instructions very well and explains what you need to do.
• Suggestions for improvement. How would you change the gameplay to make the learning and play experience work together better? I would make it a less boring game before you have to fight the diseases.
• List 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do (in terms of functionality, design or content)Make things move, make the buttons, and make the background look semi-professional.

GAME REVIEW #2: LEAST EFFECTIVE Learning Game

• Name of the game that taught you the LEAST about its learning topic: Bullseye.
• What social issue or educational topic does the game explore? It doesn't.
• What can you learn from this game? How to shoot an arrow on a computer, nothing educational at all.
• What game genre is it? Do you think this genre is a good choice for creating a learning game? Why or why not? Sports. Yes, but only if it has some type of educational content.
• Design Analysis (Does it look good? Does it clearly illustrate the issue or learning concept?) It looks good, but it doesn't illustrate an issue.
• Usability Analysis (Is it clear what you need to do as a player? Does it work well?) Yes, yes.
• Suggestions for improvement. How would you change the gameplay to make the learning and play experience work together better? I would have some type of questions included in the game.
• List 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do (in terms of functionality, design or content) Make things move, make the buttons, and make the background look semi-professional.

Game Topic

I'm Jacey. I'm a cheerleader and sophmore in high school. Ever since I was born, animals have been in my life and I am definitely an animal person. I think anyone who hurts an animal should be put in jail. I'm a very opinionated person, especially when it comes to the safety of people and animals. So that is why I chose my topic to be Animal Abuse Prevention. I think it will be a good thing for people to learn about.

Game Type

The type of game I'm most interesting in using, is adventure. I think using that for an animal abuse prevention game would be the best option, so that you could go up against obsticles, and things like that. Of course action could be a possible option as well, but I think adventure would be the best.

Protecting Yourself On the Internet

Protecting yourself on the internet is very important, especially because you never know looking at what. If you put the wrong thing on websites, you could be putting yourself in harm's way. For example, putting your email adress, IM names, or personal numbers on your sites, means anybody can see this. You don't know who's looking up something and just happens to come across your page.
Most of the people who need to be careful on the internet is teens and children. They don't really have the best judgement on what's safe or not. So they're the ones who are the most vulnerable when it comes to the internet.

September 14, 2010

Globaloria has been an interesting class so far. I've had some issues with the coding and such with the computers, but I'm beginning to get the hang of it. I think this class will be very good for me considering how much technology has grown recently. I can't wait to see what else this class holds for me.
Clearly, I'm no good at blogging, but I guess I'll get better at it.
This year, I hope to get better with using computers and  programs on the computer. For our social issue game, we are using animal abuse as our topic. Mostly I'm excited to find new things about computers, including coding, and how to create games. I'm mostly scared about messing up and the deadlines for everything, considering I don't work well against the clock.