Imagining Your Game

Who are you designing your game for ? Anyone who would like to learn about immigration & enjoys games .

What will your game teach the player about your topic ?How important it is, what are some things tat can be done , even if they aren't as big ideas but , they can still help by doing a little part .

Where does your game happen ? Around Austin ,& the immigrants " home ".

Describe the world you will design for your game ? I will make the world how it is & try to make it realistic .

How will this setting add to the learning expierience ?Because , it shows it's around where the player lives not just in one place .

How does your game world teach the player about your topic? Like i said before it shows that it is not only in some places it happens almost all around the world .

What happens in the world that helps the player learn ?Different things about my topic , mainly is the pop-ups that are going to pop up & have facts

How does the player use what they learned to make somethign happen in the game ?Because , they start understanding how difficult it is going to keep being for these immigrants if they don't understand .

Why is a game better way of understanding your topic than a quiz ?Because , it can have more realistic imgaes & actually have way more facts .

Mini Game

What did you learn from your choice of games & genres to review ?

Action : & Races

I could say i learned some math . More fractions . & trying to have faster skills with games because i am not very fast with them so , that was something i kind of got better at because of all the games especially if they were timed .

Name any game genres features that stood out to you either because they way they were interesting or because they could be improved ?

Games genres that stood out to me were the Puzzle & maze games . I really liked them , because they were really fun & challenging .

Write down any questions you have about a game or genre you choose .

# 2 Single Story

Danger of a single story . . .

She is from Nigeria . She was a early reader & writter . Her books were about white people . Her image of white people was that they would eat apples , have blonde hair & blue eyes & that they would sit around & talk about the weather . She tought african-american people couldn't exsist in those books . So , she started writing literature .

What does it mean to have a " single story " about a place or community ? Yes , about my own community East Austin , a lot of people say it is bad , & that they think that every school is bad .

Decribe a single story you have heard told about your community . What is missing from that story ? How could people learn more about that community ? A single story i have heard is that there ar no good chools around here & that everyone drops out . Which is not true because for example our school is a very good school & i know we won't drop out , well i won't . Everyone goes by what they have heard & when they actually realize they were wrong they see what people say is not always true . So , i think people shouldn't judge a whole community because just because one or two schools arelike that doesn't mean other schools are .

Describe another single story you have heard about another community ? How did you learn that story ? How could you find out more about that community ? I have heard that every school in the west side are good schools because everyone in that community has a lot of money . Which isn't true because there are some people that live there but don't always have to have a lot of money . I learned that by hearing what people say & on the news . I could learn mor eabout that community by looking it up or maybe even going over there & see if it is true .

How could a game let payers experience many stories about a place or a community ?It could maybe when they win it could have options to learn about that comunity & a little article will pop up .

#1 Cyberbullying 2011

This is my first blog post of the 2011-2012 school year . . .

What is cyberbullying ? A cyber bully could be anyone & also is someone who is doing it by the internet & could also do it by a phone or text messaging . Someone who picks on you over & over again , Says mean things about you.

Why do people cyberbully ? People cyberbully because they want to feel better about them selfs , jealousy , want power , beacuse they have been bullied or simply because they want to bully & think it is right.

How to fix that problem ? You shouldn't open the messages & make the agresser think you did not get the messages You should tell a trusted adult & tell them how you feel about it , together they should be able to figure out if you want to block that peson or report the spam.

How do you know who it is ? You actually don't know because they will not put up their real picture or they're real name but , either way they can be tracked dowm the person.

Cyberbully . . .

How does the main character feel about using " Clicksters " at the beginning of the film ? Her mom didn't approve of it , & she didn't really care about it , in other words it didn't matter if she didn't have one.

What is her family situations ? ( economic status , challanges etc. ) Taylor & her mom , ad a good relationship even though she thought she was over protective . Taylor & her brother also had a normal relationship like any other brother & sister . Unlike Tayor & her father they didn't ave such a good relationship at the momnet since her dad left her mom for a younger woman.

What type of frienship does she have ? She had two bestfriends , Samantha & Cheyenne . They had her back through it all & were good friends until Taylor made Samatha mad.

What happened to Taylor's " Clickster " account ? It got hacked , & someone posted " i am a naughty girl someone should spank me " . She took it really serious & was crying . & Later she found out it was her brother who had hacked it.

Who was the culprit ? Lindsay , she would make fun of Taylor & insult her . She also posted up mean comments on " Clicksters ".

What changes do you see in Taylor as she continues to use " Clicksters " ? She starts having problems & gets sad & mad cause of all those mean comments people were posting about her & it starts getting worse after Cheyenne doesn't want to be seen with her & tells her not to follow her . & then she tries to commit suicide , they stop her . & she finds out that her friend Samantha is the one who mad ethe fake profile who was supposably " James " . ( she told him a lot of personal information when she didn't even know him.

How does Taylor react to the mean comments people keep posting about her ? She gets sad & obiously she cares if she gets so depressed & tries to commint suicide.

Does she even try to stop people from posting insults ? What could she have done ? No , her mom tells her to shut it down & she doesn't listen . She could have done that fro the beginning.

How do you think Taylor felt about her " friends " betraying her ? I think it made her feel way worse . Knowing her friend would do that just to keep her away from tis boy , Scott.

What kind of changes do you see in Taylor experience though the film ? That now she knows to ask for help . & the a lot of other people actually learned that they shouldn't stay quiet & keep on letting it happen because it brings a lot of consequences.

Monica-12-2010

P A R T-1&2
We watched A really good video which was called the age of stupid .It talked about how A lot of things are becoming endangers and how there will not be any in the most 40 years.Like For examle one of the biggest problem right now is the oil/the oil spill.Like there was an oil spill I New Orelans.They fixed it in 9 months and didnt help out the people that lost there homes instead they rathered fix the oil spill.Also they showed how poor and what that oil spill caused Like alot of people would eat fish out of the oceans and now there food has chemaicals In it and they dont even have clean water to clean It.And some people in Nigeria,Africa have a oil factory and they dont even care they just dirty their water and they dont even try to help them and their food .I really liked this video because it is showing us what we are doing to people and ourselfs.It also talks about how we are using to much things like 5% more than chinnese,15%than Kenya and are way smaller than other places like Asia & Africa and we still use way more than them.Like imagine if everyone would take in as much as us,we would need three earths because we are taking to much energy in.Hurricane Katrina destroyed alot of things well most of that place everone lost there houses,things,furniture and that shows that we need to stop climate change.Like the earths temperature needs go down 2 degrees lower.Because everone agrees but no one does anything about it or listens.By 2015 this needs to be done because we are going to have some serious promblems with our atmosphere and the earth edge is getting thinner. If we dont try to fix things there will be disasters everywhere!Our future is going to be a disaster because we had a chance to save the world but we didnt decide to because they think that we all just care about money and dont care about our planet and enviorment.

Monica-11-2010

My topic is about deforstrstion.I really would like to persuade people to recycle more and help our earth.We are using alot of trees we are only soposed to use a certian percentage of our trees and we have used way more than that.Just us in the whole world,have over used our percentage of trees.Everyone should really be able to reacycle at least a little or whatever they can because I know it would recycle alot of paper because if we use alot we should be able to at least recycle it.So I am really intersted in this topic thats why I chose it,trees are really important to me because they do so much for us and we could at least try to save them.The trees give us the most important thing that we need to live which is oxygen of course .

MonicaH-10

My Four Topics..
Source 1
Author:Coral Reef Alligance (Organization) Title:Welcome To Coral Web Address:http://www.coral.org/ Copyright Date:2010 Date Found:10-11-10

Source 2

Author:EPA/Goverment Address Title:EPA United States Enviormental Protection Agency Web Address:http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.htmlCopyright Date :10-23-2006 Date Found:10-11-10

Source 3

Author:Competetive Enterprise Institute(Organization) Title:Global Warming.org Web Address:http://www.globalwarming.org/Copyright Date:2010 Date Found:10-11-10

Source 4

Author:BBC/The Open University Title:The World Around Us Web Address:http://www.open2.net/savingspecies// Copyright:03-25-2010 Date Found:10-11-10