Playing to Learn, Genre:Strategy

Strategy games are games where you have to use critical thinking and to actually analyze the situation that you are in on the game. Most of the time strategy games are dealing with real life situations and usually you have the pressure of time in order to complete a task.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:
The game tat taught me a new skill was names "The debate". This game taught me that you have to think before taking an action or bad things will haven if you do not do so.

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2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:
The game that taught me information about an existing social issue was "Survivor". This game taught me about how the animals have to do things in order to be able to survive in their habitats.

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3. The game or games I liked the best:
The game that I liked the best was named "Be who you want to be". I liked it best because sometimes its fun to cartoon yourself but also to think how people will make fun or you or what they will think of you.

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4. What happens in the game or games:
In this mentioned games you have to use critical thinking a lot. I actually like thinking before I take an action in something so this kind of games are really the time of games that i would be playing.

5. How you play the game or games:

In the game called "Be who you want to be" you have to click on the certain thing or things that you will like to see in the cartooned character. In the game Survivor you have to move the wolf with the arrow keys in order to survive.

Playing To Learn! Genre: Action

Action games are the most common ones in the whole game business. in this genre you have to always keep moving and have to do certain activities at the time.

Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:
The game that thought me about a an existing social issue was oil spill because it just happened not even a year ago and numerous animals got affected by this issue but it was not solved as fast as they thought it was going to be fixed.

Game I liked best:
I liked the game save the animals the best Because i really like how they made the background move while you are moving with it also. I also like how they made the main character move his legs while he was walking making it seam like if it was really walking. I love the graphics and I like the concept of making people realize that they need to do something to try to save the animals that got infected or in danger because of the oil spill.

What happens in the game:
In this game you are thought some of the animals who really got affected by the oil spill. Also the player gets to feel like if they are making a change by playing and by acknowledging the facts in this game.

How do you play it:
In order to play this game you have to do do certain actions. You have to use the arrow keys in the keyboard in order to make the main character move and to save the animals.

Mini Game

Was is hard to make your Mini Game? What was the best part of this topic? The worst part?

I can easily say that my mini game was a little bit hard to make because i wanted mine to have the best graphics that i could make. fortunately i did made that happen. other than that i can tell that the code and the rest of the making was really easy.

The best part of making the game was messing around with the new flash. I love experimenting with something that i don't know much of like the new flash. It was way easier to do the small details that i like to do in this new flash than the other old one.

The worst part about making this mini Game was that i forgot to put the name of my files on my projects page. That was the only thin that i wasn't satisfied with while doing this project.

9/11

How old were you on September 11, 2001?
I was three years old.

When did you first learn about the attacks and who explained the events to you?
my six grade history teacher explained to us what was the 9/11 and what had happened.

What kind of impact did these attacks have on your life or your parents lives?

This impacts have a lot of impact in my life. It makes me feel insecure feeling that something bad is going to happen or that we are going to be attacked again. I just cant imagine me trying to survive leaving everything behind. I think that all I would do if i was there I would be running all the time just trying to survive.

What was the issue with this game?
That it was saying that there is no way to stop terrorism. And the person who made the game is just trying to get money out of something very tragic.

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How do you feel about it?

I actually feel very bad because it teaching children bad things and its making them get the wrong idea behind it.

What is the problem with portraying on such an awful violent event through a video game?

The making of this game is very violent because its showing the youth that the violence can not be stop at all.

How can you make sure that your web games tell the whole story or teach a lesson in an honorable way?

By actually putting information about the event and by doing the right actions for people to not feel bad or anything.

Single Story 2011

"Danger Of A Single Story"

1)What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?

Is to have an idea about a place where you have never gone to and you make assumptions about it, usually never good thoughts.

What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?

2)Describe a single story you have heard told about your community.

I have heard people saying that in my community every person is s thug and that they have no future. They do not know that a lot of people where I live at they actually go to school and they do have bright futures. I think that they really need to go to my community and actually hang out with people so that they can see what is really going on.

3)Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?

I found out about the single story of the east side of Austin. I have always lived on the North side of Austin so when I heard that the east side is a really bad side to study at because of all the drop outs and the gangs and drugs I was really scared because I had to study in this certain area. Once I went to the school and really spent time in this side of Austin I realized that it was not like how people describe it. Yes it does have drugs and gangs but its not everywhere.

4)How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?

It can tell them by making the game with information about the certain topic that they have in order for them to learn more. I could also have images or pictures about the topic.

CYBERBULLY

1) How does the main character feel about using "clicksters" in the beginning of the film?
she thinks is not something that she would use specially because her mom is always watching her back.

2) What is her family situation?
she has a lot of rules and her mom is a single parent. her and her brother do not get along very well. her mother is super protective and she is angry at the time with her father.

3) What type of friendships does she have?
Really good ones.they actually care about her but then they start to have a little problem.

4) When does the Cyber-bulling begin?
When a girl and Lynsey starts saying bad things about her on her clicksters page.

5) What is the rest of the Cyber-bulling that Taylor experiences?

she gets called names and gets bullied at all times. they post tings about her that are not true.

6) What type of Cyber-Bulling does Taylor experience?

impersonate

7) What would you do if you where on Taylor's shoes?

i would of declined my page the first timed that they told me something.

8) How does Taylor react to the mean comments people keep posting about her?

She is really sad and mad that people would actually post things about her. she also got to a point that she was going to commit suicide.

9) Does she even try to stop people from posting insults? what could she have done different?

no she did not. she could of tell her mom or an adult in order for them to stop it.

10) How do you think Taylor felt about her friends betraying her?

She feels down and she feels lie if she cant trust anyone.

11) What kind of changes do you see Taylor experience thought the film?

She is now at her house all the time and she doesn't do online no more at all.

1 Cyberbullying 2011

THIS IS MY FIRST BLOG POST OF THE 2011/2012 SCHOOL YEAR!

What is a cyberbully?
a Cyberbully is a person or a program on the other side of the computer trying to ring you down and to bully you all the time in order for them to feel satisfied. someone who pic

What are the different types of cyberbullying?

Some different types of cyberbullying are gossip, impersonate, exclude and threaten.

What should you do if you are being cyberbullied?

What u should do if you are being cyberbullied is tell an adult, ignoring the person, reporting the person, and saving the messages as prove.

What are some reasons that people cyberbylly others?

Some of the reasons that people cyberbully other is to make them feel good or to feel the feeling of making someone else feel something that they have. They feel jealousy for you and they want to feel powerful then anyone.