All good things must come to an end.

When I entered my senior year of high school I knew that an English class would be mandatory to graduate, and I was already dreading it. On the first day of school I received my schedule and luckily enough my English class wasn't until fourth block of my last semester, but as the days drew closer I was already worrying about the work I would have to do and my senior project. The day finally came and I walked into my senior English class. The teacher made her introduction and as I awaiting to hear her say get your paper and pencils out and come get a text book, she said welcome to Globaloria and that is when the tables were flipped. All of my work was to be done on the computer and my senior project was to create a video game.

I then became very excited, and i figured that the class would be very easy but I soon found out I was very wrong. We would be keeping a learning log, social profile and a blog which were very simple as long as you kept up with your work. The class would also be learning flash as well as all of the other things a regular English class would with our online text book. As we really started learning things began to be very difficult, especially in flash we had so many codes. Everyday in this world we called Globaloria was a challenge, and things were also beginning to fall into place. Our games were begging to work and our pages were looking great.

This class was amazing and a great experience, that I wouldn't trade for anything. Things got difficult but I never gave up, and in the end I had a good game and a great time. I got the chance to learn in flash and be able to use my creativity in a great educational way. I loved this class and would suggest it to anyone, it is a great and easy way to learn. I am so glad I got to experience Globaloria, so thank you to the people who are over it and my incredible teacher.

Reviewing Team Pages

The first team I checked out was Katie and Amy's game named "Pinky & The Brain." Their game was about the social issue of education, and how life is like a big maze to graduation day. They only had part of their demo uploaded but it was very good. I think they had a great idea in creating their game. The demo was very organized and looked very nice. The only advice I could possibly think to tell them would be to maybe considering keeping the mouse inside the lines. The thing I will take back to my game is making it an option to view our instructions or not. The second team's page I viewed was Jeremiah and Jessica's, their team is called ''JESSAMAIH." Their game is about recycling and when you recycle you win money to get West Virginia out of debt. I absolutely loved their game I think it is great. Jessamiah's game looks like a real game that could be on the Internet instead of a student made game. I think that every aspect of their game is wonderful. Both of the teams pages I viewed were incredible and I can't wait to play their final games. http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/rhswiki/index.php/Team:Team_JESSAMIAH! http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/rhswiki/index.php/Team:Pinky_%26_the_Brain

Group Chat!

We were put into groups and given the task of reading a few different poems and discussing them, but not by moving around and talking. So we used our Gmail accounts we created to hold a chat between team members. My group was made up of Samantha and Shaina. After preparing our group chat we each picked a poem from our literature book to write a summary about. All three of us read all of the poems and discussed them so we could get a mutual feel. I think that working together helped us to get a better understanding of what we are reading. I really liked the group chat and thought it was a very effective way of learning. By messaging each other on the computer about our assignments the classroom was quieter and people weren't getting distracted by all the chatter.

West Virginia Girl ♥

West Virginia is known as the wild and wonderful state, and in my opinion it definitely is. West Virginia is home to some of the most beautiful places in the country, from the Appalachian Mountains to Ohio River. I love living here in this amazing state, and wouldn't go anywhere else. West Virginia is both rural and civilized, we have our small towns but we also have cities. Although our cities do not compare to the ones in New York or California they supply us with all we need. I believe that the residents of this state are by far more friendly than most people in others. Most people here will talk to anyone and give you the shirt off there backs, I guess you could say we just have a southern charm. Every one here is very unique, but most seem to share the same interests such as fishing, hunting, riding, camping, and just being in the woods.
West Virginia may not be the most wealthy state but we do take great pride in what we have. The pride of our state is West Virginia University. WVU is located in Morgantown, and is very popular for there academics and sports. Our football team is decent and from year to year they continue to get better. The boys basketball team is doing wonderful and even made it to the final four this year. No matter how well our sports teams do from season to season we all support them. And if I can assure you of one thing, gold and blue runs deep in our mountains and almost everyone is a Mountaineer fan.
West Virginia is very well known for it's natural resources, such as coal. Coal is great for our state's economy and provides many jobs to our area. This state is the heart of coal mining. To a lot of people here mining runs in their blood and their families have mined for many generations.
But mining is very dangerous and we have suffered a lot of losses over the years. This week over twenty- five people died in a mine explosion in Raleigh County. It was a great tragedy and our we are all mourning them. We are all gathering together and helping the families of the miners deal with their losses. Whether it is one life or one hundred lives taken it is a great tragedy, so I will continue to pray for the miners and their families and I hope that everyone does the same.
People tend to perceive us as just redneck hillbillies. Others think that we are inbred, have bad teeth or well not any at all, and are stupid. In reality we are the same as everyone else; we are very well educated but we just tend to like the more simple things in life. We may have our country accents but we are really good people and I hope that people from other states realize that one day.

PJ's Mini Lesson

Last week PJ who is in Ms. Cordle's digital imagining class, volunteered to help teach us how to use flash better. He made a tutorial and went over it with us step by step. The tutorial was very effective and taught me a lot. I was really worried about creating a real game and didn't think I could really make everything work correctly, but now I feel more confident since I have more knowledge in flash. Before he came in working in flash would give me a headache but now I can't wait to work on my game.

Buttons

A major part of our games are the buttons, and yesterday we were given the assignment to create them. So, after we finshed up drawing some of our scenes we tried to create buttons. The process was very simple but we made it very complicated by not listening to the full directions. We spent forever trying to figure for oursleves how to create them, but eventually we just gave in and asked for some advice. Our classmates showed us how to correctly create buttons, and it ended up being very simple.

Paper Prototype

Chad and I have came together and created the team of Thing 1 & Thing 2, and we have decided to make a game together. We have played different games to get ideas, made a mini game, choose a topic, and now we are planning our game. We put our ideas together and created our
paper prototype. Once we made all our different scenes and put them together we planned out what we would say in our video. Then we practiced and began filming.