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

Animal Cruelity

I am bringing up the issue animal cruelity. Everyday an animal is abused for no good reason. Acually, there is no excuse for abusing any type of animal. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix for animal abuse, but there are so many things we can all do to help. None of them will make animal abuse disappear tomorrow, but every little bit helps lower the risk further down the road.
And you don't have to be an animal "fanatic" to do it. You don't have to be a member of every animal rights organization on earth. There are so many things regular people can to do to have an impact on their lives. To prevent animal abuse from occuring,you must educate yourself and your friends to take care and to love your pets. All animals need love so it would be great if more people would visit shelters and donate to animals in need. And if you suspect someone is abusing their pet, then you should alert your local animal control.http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/prevent_abuse.php

What I've Learned in Flash

I have learned a lot about Flash in this unit. I learned that it's not easy, It's acually a lot of work. Like Mrs. Barker said, You have to treat flash like a baby, It doesn't know anything so you have to be very specific when you're telling it what to do or put in. That's why I thought the action script was hard, because if you misspell anything that you type then you will have to go back and find your mistakes. The easy part about flash was creating the pages for my game. I like to put all kinds of different colors and graphics on my game, It was really fun and I understood it pretty well. The content in my game is about Civil Law. I've done some research about it and learned that Civil Law works with non-criminal cases. For an example, if some one falls down in a public place and breaks their foot, they could press charges if they get a lawyer and present their case in court. I don't have anymore questions about creationg the game because I think I know all the basic stuff in this unit. But later on I might have a question. My partner and I might need a little more time with adding navigation so we can check over everyting and make sure we have everything done.

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/flash/tutorials.html