Game Presentation

I thought our game presentation went very well. Shannon, Rachael, and Dave were very helpful on the phone. They showed us that there are all sorts of ways to teach kids about different kinds of civil law. We have a few concerns about our game and are making changes to it. First of all, we will put more information about civil law along the game so the player can learn some facts then answer the given Civil Law questions that we provide. We were also given suggestions about our game title. Our game title is called "The Racing Pursuit." It's called that because the player has to manauver their car around obstacles ans answer the questions. When you click on the created stopsigns, you will have to read the information about civil law. We will also make the questions intriguing so the players will have to think about their answer. Other than that, our game is going great and the presentation really taught us something. http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/Team:~THE_FOX_RACERS~~

Civil Law

Our game is about civil law. It falls into the "Citizenship" catagory. Our game is educational because it has civil law facts like child custody battles, property ownership, and contract signings. It's important that people learn this type of law. We chose this type of law because we thought that it would be easy to teach it to people who are younger than us.

Plajorism

Copying other people's work and using it as your own is very wrong. No one should take credit for anything that is not theirs. In the game "Tutorial", I learned that you can get in serious trouble for plajorising. In some schools, you will be expelled. I also learned if you research about a project on someone's website and put their text in you own words that you won't get into trouble because that's called "Paraphrasing." This game taught me that everyone should document the source immediately after using copyright material. You cite where you got your work from by saying where you got your information. I hope this blog will teach people the dangers of plajorising.

http://www.plagiarism.org/

New Year's Resolution

My New Year's resolution is to complete my game and make it perfect. My partner and I have put alot of thought into this game and we can't wait until it's finished. Right now our game is basically done, but I want to perfect it. I think this game will be excellent. I'm going to make it perfect by checking everything and making sure there are no mistakes.

My Research Blog

My game topic is about Civil Law. Civil law is cases about non-criminal actions. It deals over disagreements over contracts, divorce, child custody, property ownership, and damages of personal property. A civil court is a place where people can solve their problems with other people peacefully. The function of civil law is to provide a legal remedy to solve problems. Sometimes civil law is based on a state or federal statute; at other times civil law is based on a ruling by the court. My partner and I chose this type of Civics because we think that kids need to understand the legal ststem at an early age so they'll undersrand what really happens in a courthouse. I also researched some cases containing civil law. For example, Your best friend’s parents get a divorce. The judge awards custody of your friend’s sister to the mother and of your friend to the father. The friend and sister want to live together. They ask a lawyer to change the custody order. This information will be used to educate the young players of our game "The Hot Pursuit." We will put this information into questions as the player navigates through the game. There will be multiple choice answers.
http://members.mobar.org/civics/ExamplesCivilLaw.htm

American History

My favorite part of American history is 9-11.
We all know the official story of September 11th: four jetliners were hijacked by groups of four and five Arabic men armed with box cutters, who proceeded to fly three of the four jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Subsequently the World Trade Center Towers, weakened by the impacts and fires, collapsed into piles of rubble. The FBI had compiled a list of hijackers within three days, and it was so obvious that Osama bin Laden had masterminded the operation from caves in Afghanistan, that there was no need to seriously investigate the crime or produce evidence. The "retaliatory" attack on the Taliban would soon commence. There were very brave people on that plane and still to this day they are remembered even though they died of a tragic death.

http://www.history.com/content/9-11

Animation and Sound

In this past unit, my partner and I have learned how to animate objects and put sounds onto our game. We finished the adding animation unit and are moving on to adding sound. In adding animation, I learned how to make an object in my game move. I made my car go across the screen. Now, I'm going to try to make the car have a sound. The tutorials were very helpful in these two units and I've learned alot from them. I liked the adding animation unit best because my team worked very hard on that car and we put a lot of time into it. Adding aniamtion was a terrific experience and I hope I do really great on adding sound.

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=7557