Bloggers-R-Us!

Good Morning Bloggers! Welcome to our lesson.



Since we do not have access to Flash today, we are going to use our time to become intimately familiar with our blogs! Today you have three assignments which need to be completed by the end of the period.

1. Review blogging tutorials on how to customize your blog to include links, photos, video, and more.

2. Complete 2 blog entries: using the following prompts
A. The Imagining Your Game Blog Prompt.
B. The Planning Your Game Blog Prompt. For this one, find a picture online that represents your game idea and display it in your post. Since most of you are working on individual games, discuss your strengths and weaknesses in flash, etc. How will you use your strengths to help others in class. How will you depend on others (both in class and online) to overcome your weaknesses in order to have a successful game?

Make sure in both posts that you are finding ways to include links, photos, and/or other rich media content.

3. Don't forget that part of blogging is to comment on other students' blogs. Go to the state map at www.myglife.org/usa/wv. Click on another school's link and find students' blogs in their user gallery. Comment on AT LEAST one other student's blog. Keep it positive and related to their topic. This is part of the blogging assignment and must be completed.

After you complete your assignments, make sure you update your learning log for the day.

Have a great blogging day!

Narrowing the Gap!

It's been a crazy start to the school year with lapses in functioning technology, delays for the sake of "online safety" and various other obstacles. But after coming slow out of the gate, our class is definitely narrowing the gap and catching up to where we need to be!

In order for this to continue we have to keep our eyes on a couple of key targets:

1. Everyone should be completing the Choosing a Topic assignment today. This includes all four subtopics and the final blog post.

2. We must be prepared to work efficiently on our mini-game project over the next few classes. Flash can be tricky, but if we stay focused I have complete faith that we will do great!

So, to my students I pose the following question:

What can YOU do outside of class time to make these goals become reality? How can you prepare to make sure our class time is used as efficiently as possible?

Here are some suggestions. Read over the topics and become familiar with the terminology prior to the class. Look at some tutorials so that you understand what we will be shooting for in the mini-game project.

HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th:

Write a blog post about your thoughts regarding learning to use flash and creating your first mini-game. What do you think the challenges will be, what do you think you will do well.

With determination we can accomplish our goals and continue to narrow the gap - heck, we may even be able to take the lead before long! Keep up the great work guys!

Taking the next step!!! (photos)

Students -

Now that you all know how to make a blog post with links. Let's take our blogging a step further. For today's assignment, you are to write a post about what genre of game you would like to make, and why. To make it more interesting for your reader let's add some interactivity.

First, find a site (it can be one of the games you reviewed today, or another game example) that demonstrates the genre you are discussing. Link to this site within your post.

Second, find a photo online that relates to your post and embed it using the photo icon at the top of your blog editor. Here is a photo of an action game: