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Welcome to MyGLife Eastern Greenbrier MS Wiki
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Eastern Greenbrier Middle School is proud to immerse students in Globaloria: an industry-realistic "Game Making" learning experience delivered on the MyGLife Network using Websites, Wikis, Blogs, and other social media technology tools.
This wiki is YOUR space for learning and working together "virtually" as you design, develop, present and publish original games about important social issues. Go to Course Overview to get started.
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Eastern Greenbrier Middle School Course News
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| Date | News / Updates | Posted by | ||||
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| 8/19/08 | Students, please take this survey on your FIRST day of class! | WikiTech | ||||
| 1-26-09 | Introduction | WikiTech | ||||
| 1-27-09 | no school - snow day | User:Dolan | ||||
| 1-28-09 | 2 hour delay students looked at wiki page | User:Dolan | ||||
| 1-29-09 | Class will review social, educational and student games | |||||
| 1-30-09 | student review course outline and terms/conditions | |||||
| 2-2-09 | provide teacher with e-mail account, if you do not have account create one in gmail | |||||
| 2-3-09 | no school | |||||
| 2-4-09 | no school | |||||
| 2-5-09 | no school | |||||
| 2-6-09 | begin requesting account and making gmail accounts | |||||
| 2-9-09 | students complete survey that missed on day one, work with logging onto their profiles | |||||
| 2-10-09 | cont. getting onto accounts fix problem accounts | |||||
| 2-11-09 | introduce WIKI TIPS as a resource, student work on updating wiki and profiles | |||||
| 2-12-09 | NAEP testing not classes | |||||
| 2-13-09 | no 3rd period, 4th period classes, change font color, add background and add pictures to your wiki pages | |||||
| 2-16-09 | Begin creating Blog account and making them personal | |||||
| 2-17-09 | Cont. on Blogs and updating wiki accounts. | |||||
| 2-18-09 | Begin Game Design Topics and make posting on blog/wiki on your work | |||||
| 2-19-09 | if not finished with 2/18 work finish that and then begin social issue games. Be sure to add your assignment to the projects page on yor wiki. Please write in complete sentences and complete thoughts | |||||
| 2-20-09 | Make sure work from 2-18 and 2-19 are completed and that you have updates on your accounts | |||||
| 2-23-09 | no school | |||||
| 2-24-09 | 2 hour delay, students to post updates and finish projects from friday | |||||
| 2-25-09 | social game assignment and post work on wiki under projects | |||||
| 2-26-09 | begin imagining your game, we will get into groups of three and start brainstorming ideas of their games. | |||||
| 2-27-09 | continue with game brainstorming | |||||
| 3-2-09 | divide into teams and begin working on game idea, watch paper prototype video | |||||
| 3-3-09 | Worked on the home screen of the game on paper | |||||
| 3-4-09 | Finished working on the home screen and started on the instructions | |||||
| 3-5-09 | Finished working on the Instructions and completed the about page | |||||
| 3-6-09 | Arrange ideas of paper prototypes. | |||||
| 3-9 | we will be looking at flash and seeing how to use it with our projects | |||||
| 3-10 | read tutorial on motion tween and created a motion tween with different shapes | |||||
| 3-11 | looked at tutoral on Shape tween and created objects that did change shape | |||||
| 3-12 | combined both shape tweens and motions tweens on our stages | |||||
| 3-13 | began creating our first page to the games. Each member of the teams are creating the main page and then will decide as a group which one to use. | |||||
| 3-16 | continue to finish main page of game | |||||
| 3-17 | teams need to decide on which pages they will use to begin their games | |||||
| 3-18 | teams watched tutorial on adding navigation to their pages. | |||||
| 3-19 | no lab work, discuss game design template | |||||
| 3-23 | teams work on game template in answering question as to what will be in thier games, who is responsible for which part of the games. | |||||
| 3-24 | work on game pages in completing the template | |||||
| 3-25 | teams should have game template completed as of today. You will be able to make changes and updates as we go along. | |||||
| 3-26 | work on flash again getting navigation and buttons on our main screen | |||||
| 3-27 | finish from the 26th on navigation and buttons | |||||
| 3-30 and 3-31 | paper prototypes need to be completed so that we can video tape games and put on our game pages | |||||
| 4-1 | video tape games | |||||
| 4-2 and 4-3 | watch videos and games of other school and their games | |||||
| 4-6 | no class because of 9th grade registration | |||||
| 4-7 | finish all video taping of games to be posted on the team pages | |||||
| 4-8 | begin first page of game | |||||
| 4-23 to 4-27 | were out of our lab worked in classroom on items that need to be placed on our game pages | |||||
| 4-28 | teams are to update their games pages adding any pictures they want but making sure that all updates to their games are done. | |||||
| 4-29 | ||||||
| 4-30 | scenes are to be linked together forming a time line. You should be working on your scenes past the intro and help.... | |||||
| 5-1 | We will add titles to our scence and then work on action script to link the buttons | |||||
| 5-4 | work on making a new layer to add scene names and stops between frames | |||||
| 5-5 | introduce action script to activate buttons | |||||
| 5-6 | continue to work on action script | |||||
| 5-7 | upload fla and swf files to game pages | |||||
| 5-8 | unable to use lab so studnets will contunie to work on games pages | |||||
| 5-11 | continue to work on action script and adding game pages to current game | |||||
| 5-12 | add action script to make buttons control pages | |||||
| 5-13 | Take year end survey | |||||
| 5-14 | continue working on games and action script | |||||
| 5-15 | continue | |||||
| 5-18 to 5-22 | WESTEST WEEK students need to contiue with their work when in class. will only meet once this week | |||||
| 5-20 | look at game gallary to see if links to your games are working | |||||
| 5-26 to 5-29 | students should be putting final touches on all their pages and have their power point presentation done by Friday | |||||
| 6-1 | you will present your game to teachers and students | |||||
| 6-3 | Present games to Globaloria |
| Score Keeping | (WikiTech | 22:33, 18 June 2009) | ||||
| User talk:Tdunbar | (Tdunbar | 06:26, 18 June 2009) | ||||
| User talk:Edickinson | (Edickinson | 17:19, 16 June 2009) |
Last 3 Discussion Topics on the Wiki
| User talk:Tdunbar | (Tdunbar | 06:26, 18 June 2009) |
| User talk:Edickinson | (Edickinson | 17:19, 16 June 2009) |
| User talk:SMalcom | (SMalcom | 23:55, 13 June 2009) |
