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Welcome to MyGLife Greenbrier West High School Wiki
*Greenbrier West High 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 our students' space for learning and working together "virtually" as they design, develop, present and publish original games about important social issues. Students: go to Course Overview to get started.*Want to see what our students have been working on so far? Check out the GAME PROTOTYPES using the TEAM PAGE Links:
[[1]]Link to Team Page: "The_Grape_Jukebox" [[2]Link to Team Page: "CHAOS" [[3]]Link to Team Page: "Team_SEE"
Greenbrier West High School Course News
STEM Competition
*Reminder to all students/teams registered for the STEM competition: Make sure you understand the competition and post regularly to your Team Pages! Progress and Completion is IMPERATIVE!
Go here to register for STEM Competition:File:Stemflyer.pdf
Student Assignments
| Topic | Date(s) | Time Spent | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progress on Games! | March 16-19, 2010 | Classtime and Homework | Students are to update their wikis/team pages to denote their schedules for completing their games. Assets, dialog, flash files need to be uploaded and posted as they progress! Students should also post to their blogs AT LEAST ONCE PER WEEK!! |
| Student PowerPoints/Tutorials | March 15, 2010 | Classtime | Students presented their Flash/Wiki tutorials (PowerPoints) |
| Videography | March 8-12, 2010 | Classtime and during school | Students are creating a video to be used at the upcoming BOE/LSIC Presentation. The theme is "Learning..." Students will be filming classes and activities in order to show a representation of West's assets. |
| Are you paying attention? | March 3, 2010 | Homework | On the website for "Games for Change", http://www.gamesforchange.org/ there is a posting about a conference. The posting by Hsing Wei on 02-14-10 said ' The conversation around the impact of games often focuses on how much transfer there is between a player’s game experience and his/her real life beliefs and behaviors. ARGs (alternative reality games) are often designed to jump that step and move players into real world action during game play.' Please comment on this and how it pertains to your game design on your blog by next Tuesday. |
| Tutorials | February -March 2, 2010 | Classtime and Snowdays Homework | Students should be finishing up their assigned FLASH tutorials. This means powerpoints and FLASH uploads to student wikis (and updating learning logs) |
| Hey you guys! | February 10, 2010 | Homework | Students: During your break at home, please do the following: Post a blog about the snow; Post your progress pertaining to your Flash tutorials; THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT--Impress us with your progress!!! Also: Send Ms. Neal and Ms. Leef notes telling us how great we really are...LOL! |
| Flash Tutorials | February 8-12, 2010 | ClassTime | Students are still trying to finish Flash Tutorials; Snowdays Monday and Tuesday...AND Wednesday. |
| Flash Tutorials | January 26-February 5,2010 | ClassTime | Students will work on creating the following tutorials: sarahn - Layers and folders; Alively94 - Tweening / keyframes; EJB -Scoring/buttons; DerekH - How to publish , upload and post files; CEkeener - Animation; EricJ - Graphic Design/html; EllieC - Bitmap tracing; CaitlynB - ?; ShaunT - Drag and Drop; XavierG - Action Script Basics; SheenaP - User viewpoint/perspective |
| Flash! | Thursday-Friday, January 14-15, 2010 | ClassTime | Post scene plans to wiki; Begin doing scenes of games in Flash |
| Clean-up! | Monday-Wednesday, January 11-13, 2010 | ClassTime | Finish videos; Burn videos; Update wikis, profiles, and blogs!!! |
| Back to School!...or not! | Mon-Fri, January 4-8, 2010 | snow days | BUT, most of you have not done the following: Update your wiki pages, post a blog entry (comment on other's blogs), and update/upload the work you have done in FLASH to your projects pages...work, work, work! |
| Homework! | Christmas Break Assignments | hours and hours | Update your wiki pages, post a blog entry (comment on other's blogs), and update/upload the work you have done in FLASH to your projects pages...work, work, work! |
| Snow! | Monday (Dec21-22, 2009) | --- | Snow days! As you all know, Greenbrier County got buried in the snow...Early Christmas present? |
| Visitor! | Thursday (Dec17, 2009) | --- | If you are good boys and girls, you will have a visitor on Thursday...NO, Derek, it is not Santa Claus! |
| Putting Everything Together | Monday-Friday (Dec14-18, 2009) | Classtime | Students are multi-tasking by alternating Flash programming for their games and editing the two videos they have created. |
| Visitor! | Wednesday (Dec9, 2009) | --- | David Lowenstein will be dropping by to visit with students. Drat! He had to reschedule due to nasty weather! |
| Videography (cont'd) | Monday-Friday (Dec7-11, 2009) | --- | This week students are finishing filming then editing their video footage. |
| Videography | Monday-Friday (Nov 30 - Dec 4) | --- | This week students are working on videos requested by school administrators |
| Break! | Monday-Friday (Nov.23-27, 2009) | --- | Turkey time! |
| Prototypes | This week on "As the Globaloria World Turns at GWHS"/ Monday-Friday | 6hrs+ | Students are finalizing their paper prototypes to be filmed. By Friday students are to film,upload, and embed their paper prototypes to their team pages!!! |
| webex and NovAcademy | Thursday evening @5:00PM/ Friday-Sunday | --- | webex (attended by Mrs.Neal while Mrs.Leef on way to Charleston; November Academy (Mrs.Leef attended) Friday-Saturday 8:30AMto8:30PM; Sunday 8:30AMto4:30PM |
| Prototyping the Game! | Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday 11/09-13/09 | 6hrs | Students re-worked their game ideas and presented to the class and Mr. Auvil last Friday. This week students should be viewing paper-prototyping examples from other schools and work toward their own paper-prototypes to be ready for videography on Monday November 16, 2009. |
| Action Script, New Games, and Videography | Wednesday-Friday 11/04-06/09 | 4.5hrs | Students will be given time to work on ActionScript individually and also work in their groups toward beginning their approved game prototpyes. Students will also be given time to further develop thier proposed videos on "Dress Code" and "Cell Phones". |
| Game Idea Presentations | Tuesday 11/03/09 | 1.5hrs | Students will practice their presentations at the beginning of the block then present their (3) chosen game prototype ideas. Good luck teams! |
| Showcasing GWHS! | Monday 11/02/09 | 1.5hrs | Students will "artfully" re-design the display cabinets to showcase school accomplishments. (Students will be given the project of showcasing school accomplishments for school and community to see and enjoy.) |
| Game Prototypes | Tuesday-Friday 10/27-30/09 | 6hr | Students are working in their teams to brainstorm at least (3) ideas to present to the class as their game projects. Students will present their ideas to the class. |
| MiniGame | Monday 10/26/09 | 1.5hrs | Verifying progress/completion of MiniGame so students can proceed to next assignments in Globaloria Course Schedule, students will work on this until basics of the game is complete and students have full working knowledge of Flash so they can design their games. |
| Team pages and "Housekeeping" cont'd | Monday 10/19/09 | ---- | Students were instructed to do some catch up work on Friday. Some of this work has not been completed. Incomplete tasks will be discussed and "shored-up" in class on Monday. |
| team pages and "Housekeeping" | Friday 10/16/09 | 1.5hrs | Students created team pages, updated wikis, profiles, and blogs today; All were instructed to work on their "dood" status by updating all Globaloria components covered to date; A little competition was started to see how many "top 10" updates to the wiki edits could be logged by Monday....go...go...go Globaloria! |
| team pages | Friday 10/16/09 | 1.5hrs | Go to Planning Your Game and follow the directions for ONE person from the team to request your team page. Other members of the team then need to read the page and follow the directions to be placed on the team page |
| More Teambuilding | 10-9 to 10-16 | Classtime & out of school | Check out Mrs. Neal's blog for the posted Question of the Week, respond on your own blog. You also need to go to these websites to learn how to develop your team logo: dryicons:All Graphic Design ; Vector Then work on developing your mini-game; use the mini game page as your tutorial to learn how to use and develop your action script talents. |
| webex | 10-1-09 | Classtime and HW | Let's try and see if we can individually view this training session. That way everyone can stop the recording and work in Flash as they are viewing the session |
| Blogging | 9-25-09 | as needed | Before working in Flash today, go to Mrs. Neal's blog and read the posting and follows the directions there. Then you can go back to learning about Flash!Check out this site Cool Tools for Schools, I haven't been able to check out all of it but it looks like a really cool site! |
| Drawing in Flash | 9-22-09 | 6 hrs | Introduction to Flash - students go to Course Schedule page and click on Drawing in Flash. Read through the page, go through the tutorials, follow directions carefully, don't shortcut or skim!!. Post your progress on your Learning Log page. Remember, this is the way you get credit for what you do! |
| Playing to Learn | Sept 15-18 | 6 hrs | Look at the games on the Globaloria site and write reviews on their project page. |
Read the Greenbrier West Teacher and Student Blogs
Last 10 Changes on the Wiki
| User talk:Aleef55 | (EllieC | 09:14, 19 March 2010) |
| User:Snpendley/Learning Log | (Snpendley | 08:29, 19 March 2010) |
| Team:The Grape Juicebox | (Cekeener | 09:19, 18 March 2010) |
| Team:Team SEE | (Snpendley | 08:22, 18 March 2010) |
| User:Sarahn/Learning Log | (Sarahn | 17:40, 17 March 2010) |
| User:Alively94/Learning Log | (Alively94 | 09:23, 17 March 2010) |
| Team:CHAOS | (Shawnt | 09:20, 17 March 2010) |
| User:EJB/Projects | (EJB | 08:50, 17 March 2010) |
| User:EllieC/Learning Log | (EllieC | 08:48, 17 March 2010) |
| User:EJB/Learning Log | (EJB | 08:33, 17 March 2010) |
