GAMING

You are to take on the role of a gaming program designer. You need to come up with a new video game. You can choose the age range, sprites, objects, game design, and story. You must also choose a gaming console and your reasoning for choosing it. We have played many, many games in class. It's your turn to design one of your own. It needs to be different! Fun! Exciting! Challenging! And appropriate for the age you choose. Remember, games are rated E, T, M, etc. Make sure yours goes along with the age group.
Paragraphs:

• Name of the game
• Design Story (An evil doctor threw three Koalas down in the dungeon because they tried to escape the zoo. They now have been brainwashed and when the main Koala goes in a certain direction, the other Koalas follow. They need to escape each lab without getting blown up by TNT or saws!)
• Sprites - what they are, what they do, how you control them
• Objects - the good and the bad. What they do, how they do it
• Age range - reason behind age
• Gaming console and REASON
• Why did you design this game the way you designed it?

Games

Choose 2 games. One needs to be internet based and the other needs to be a video game from a gaming console. Describe the sprites and objects. What's the objective of the game? What's the design story of the game?

Alice

---------INSERT IMAGE OF ALICE!-----------

DO NOT KEEP MY QUESTIONS IN YOUR POST. YOUR POST SHOULD BE COMPLETE SENTENCES!

What is Alice?

If someone wanted to download Alice, where would they go? (you will have to do some reasearch of your own here)

What objects doe Alice have to offer? (this should be a long list of various objects or themes Alice offers)

What could Alice be used for?

What are the pros of Alice?

What are the cons of Alice?

What world did you make with Alice?

Did you enjoy Alice? Why/ Why not?

Would you use Alice in the future? If yes, for what? If no, how come?

#9 - Cyberbullying

What is Cyberbullying?

Article link:

Article Title:

Copy and Paste your article summary here (and delete this sentence!)

• Each of these posts needs to be completed today, November 18. You need to have at least one clip art that goes along with each post. Each post should be posted SEPARATELY. USE SPELL CHECK!
  You may copy and paste my instructions, but delete them as you complete each post.
  
• Emoticons
  Explain what an emotion is.
  Explain what an emoticon is.
  Give 10 examples of emoticons and what they mean.
  Explain what an acronym is.
  Give 10 appropriate examples texting/IMing acronyms
  
• Acceptable Use Policy
  Explain what an AUP is.
  How is an AUP used at Glenvar? Give 5 rules and why they would be important.
  How could an AUP policy be put in place at a job?
  Why are AUP's necessary?
  If you were the boss of a large company where each employee had their own computer and access to internet, what rules and regulations would you have?
  
• Staying Civil Online
  Give 5 rules for internet etiquette.
  Read "Staying Civil Online" from page 287 in your textbook.
  Summarize the article and list the 7 "netiquettes" it lists.
  Explain those 7 netiquettes and your personal thoughts on each.
  Do you think that netiquette is important? Why or why not?

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

BLOG POST FOR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Title:
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

Information to include:
1. What is HTML?
2. What is a tag? Give an example.
3. Explain "open" and "close" tags
4. Steps to create a HTML site (BE VERY THOROUGH!!! I should be able to create my own site from your instructions on this one!)
5. Give 3 websites that give good examples of HTML tags to copy and paste
6. How do YOU feel about HTML? What did you know already? What do you know now? Will this help you with anything in the futre? Why/Why not?

Ethernet Cables

Your blog is on google as one of the top responses for "How to Build an Ethernet Cord"

(It really isn't, we're playing pretend).

This post needs to have the isntructions on how to build an ethernet cord (you may have changed your directions after creating your own cord!) Give instructions on your blog on how to create an ethernet cord just as though the person reading it had no idea what an ethernet cable was, what to use, or how to assemble it!

First : Explain the purpose of the ethernet cable.

Second: Materials needed

Third: Instructions (INCLUDE COLORS! You may want to change the font color to match for the order.. just an idea.)

Fourth: How to test

Fifth: Give a personal statment about the first time you created an ethernet cable - How hard was it? How many times did you mess up? What would you do differently now that you have a correct cord?

Sixth: Words of encouragement to the new ethernet cable builder :)

Seventh: Include at least one photo of an ethernet cable (one that looks like yours!)

Post #3

What is a network and why do we need it?

List the four benefits of using a network


Differentiate between WANs and LANs.


Identify at least three common network topologies. Insert an image from the web of each.


List four exampls of network operation system software.


Describe the difference between Client/Server Networks and Peer to Peer Networks.

Post #2

Go to http://www.cybercrime.gov/ . Scroll to the bottom of the page. Select one link at the bottom of the page and let your instructor know what one you pick. Take 15 minutes to read the article and make a note of the 8 most important facts that the class should know.

Type your 8 facts as Post #2 your blog and prepare to share them with the class vocally. You will have approximately 3 – 5 minutes to speak.


Grading:

(50 pts) Facts were important.
(25 pts) Presentation was organized.
(25 pts) NO grammatical errors in Blog Post

Post #1

What is the purpose of a blog? What pros and cons do you see about blogs? Are they safe? Why/Why not. Explain how blogs could be used as an educational tool.

My Chapter: 14

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Part II of our selected readings was to choose a chapter from the book and complete reflection questions. The sections included in the music, math, science, foreign language, english, health, physical education classrooms. I guess since I teach Business and Marketing and those are Technology based courses there wasn't a chapter for me! So, I chose the chapter on Integrating Technology in the ELL Classroom. I have had a lot of students in the past that do not speak very good English. On top of that, they aren't so technology-savvy. Two big whammies in a classroom full of teenage students!!

What I found most interesting was the Stages of Second Language Acquisition on page 335 (Table 14.2). To re-cap:

• Silent/Receptive=10hours to 6 months to get about 500 vocabulary words that they can understand but may not be able to use.


• Early Production= Addt'l 6 months to get 1,000 receptive and active words


• Speech Emergenc=Addt'l 12 months to get 3,000 words


• Intermediate Language Proficiency= Addt'l 12 months to get 6,000 words


• Advanced Language Proficiency= up to 5-7 years to develop specialized content-are vocab.

WOW!!! That is a lot of time! I know I struggled while learning spanish in high school but I've never had to use it fluently for any reason.

Studies have shown that using technology can help ELL students achieve success. Do you agree?

Professional Development Tool

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Those that know me know that I try to be pretty organized. I like to have a plan and have deadlines. I function better that way. For this course, we had to create a Professional Development Tool to help guide us through the completion of the course. Bascially, I created a calendar with dates to begin, dates to complete, and dates to submit assignments. I love it! I love being held accountable. This tool served as a great way for me to stay on target and on task to get all my work completed and I was able to do the work before the deadlines I had set for myself!

Anyone else love to work this way... or do some of you absolutely hate it?!