Friday, April 30, 2010

Last week of april

This week we made a commerical on a Food Bank. It had to be at least one minute long.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

4-22-10 Blog post

The hardest thing to teach in our game is the different types of governments and how they differ. We have created many questions and games to show how there are different types of governments in different areas of the world. We believe that we have taught this successfully and that people will learn about government.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Blog prompt 3-15-10

Information can be altered in many ways to make sure that no one is copyrighting. The news does this all the time. There are so many different news stations that they can't all say the same information about the same stories. In the kids games, many people will talk about the same things, but they will all tweak it in their own ways.

4-12-10

This week we worked on Team Presentation and team pages. We adjusted our presentation to the way our game has changed along with updating the team page.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

March 31 Blog Assignment

Well I looked at the SHAUNDYE! game from Greenbrier East High School. I like the paper prototype but when I went to the demo it wasn't finished and one of the scenes didn't have a stop on it so it ran through the demo after the third or fourth scene. I didn't see much differnece between the paper prototype and the demo.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

function prompt march 25

Select one team game or game idea in your knowledge community that you feel will do an effective job teaching players about civic function. List the selected team's school, name and game title. Describe specifically what the game aims to teach and why its design plan or game demo succeeds in achieving this aim. Please write a minimum of 4 sentences. Greenbrier East High School,The Cheese Wizards, the three branches game helps understand the billing process within the government. Their first question shows the way a bill is processed. The second question does a good job of showing how a bill gets passed by a majority vote.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

function prompt

Our game demo,will have mini games for example one has books flying at a picture of Hitler. This shows the freedoms he took away from the people in Europe. We worked together finding the information for the freedoms and we thought of it together because of the question before it. It has to deal with Hitler's type of government and freedoms of the people.