Week in Review 4/26 - 4/30

This week was spent mostly working on finishing our Powerpoints and such. Next week we will be recording our final videos for our games. We only have about 11 days left so things are begining to taper off very much so.

Ideals Blog Prompt (April 30)

Comment on Two students blogs.

Ideals Blog Prompt (April 23)

The hardest ideals to teach would have to be trying to convey information about the amendments. The amendments are worded in a manner that makes them somewhat difficult to understand. We tried to base the mini-games around what we believed were the main point of them. This way it would be easy for the person to understand what it meant without being confused by the language used.

April 18 (Powerpoint Revisions)

Yesterday, we put the rest of the information we needed into our PowerPoint's. We also put sample game scenes as well as the code we used. We did this as the deadline is coming up and we need to make sure we have everything we need done!

Ideals Blog Prompts and Assignments (April 15)

News sources generally leave out some facts about civic incident. Facts that could put a different spin on a story. The Internet has been improved fact wise, if you look and are not totally obvlious, you can find the correct information without to much trouble.

Ideals Blog Prompts and Assignments

1. Game Title: The Smelly Closets: What are They Thinkin'?
2. School: Randolph Technical Center

The game aims to teach about the parties in our goverment. This is importatn becaucse people need to understand each of the parties goals so that they can vote or align with the ones that have the same morals as them. The game uses a format that makes it easier to remember by putting the information into a fun and managable way.

Ideals Blog Prompts and Assignments

This is a picture of our original paper prototype for our game. It's kind of funny how much different it is now. Overall, we must have went through about 5 different versions to get to the one we are working on now. We talked to our teacher about how we could make it more civic related and such. This was mostly our collaboration. This relates to civics because its shows where we began and how we got to the point were at.