Globaloria :)

Oh, what can I say? This has really been one of my most favorite classes, it was interesting and fun as well as educational and helpful. English, even though I really do not like it, is one of the most important classes you take, it helps you become more professional in word choice and the way you present yourself and work you have completed, not only did Globaloria accomplish this with English, it helped us work with technology and things that will help us with the way college works since everything and everybody is getting more and more involved with technology.

I think my favorite part of the class was learning how to make the game and even though it was incredibly stressful at times, it was worth it in the end. Katie and I finally finished our game, well finished what we could, our coding didn't work out the way we planned but we did what we could and still had fun. Our game was Pinky and the Brain's Maze To Graduation, you should take a look if you haven't already. During this time I became addicted to the student made game Go, Rabbit, Go! and Jessica and Jerimiah's game Trash For Cash In WV. I had a lot of fun and also learned a lot in this new form of class and environment and I'm glad I got to experience it.

Also, I would like to say thank you to Ms. McChesney and the Globaloria staff for making all of this possible for me and the rest of the class. I would also like to thank Katie Ferrell for being my partner and for everything she has done for me not only in this class but just in general. I hope to be able to continue blogging about things in my life, hopefully I won't get too busy. Chez, I'm going to miss being a macaroni in your class, but I will probably end up sending you a paper or two if I need help editing. :)

Group Chat

Yesterday, my group was group number one. Jessica, Jessi, Kenny, and myself held a group chat conversation about the poems we were supposed to read from our Literature book. Jessica read the first poem and gave her summary on it, Jessi read the second and supplied her summary, and then I read the final poem and gave my thoughts on it. After each person gave their summary we discussed the poem and got a mutal feel on it. I think this is a very good and effective way of having a group discussion because you can have the whole room in small groups having discussions without causing problems by talking loudly or something to that distracts other groups and such. I really liked the G-Mail chat discussion and if we have to do another group discussion i think this would be the best way to do it.

Reflection Blog

The Washington Post Article on Mine Explosion.

What I read and what has happened recently in our community has been really upsetting and heart breaking. The song has a lot of meaning behind it not only for people who are living that life but people who know other people who are going through it. Even if you're not close with the families it still effects you. It makes you start thinking about your family, friends, or loved ones that these things could happen to and it really makes you think about things and put your own life into prespective.


My Favorite Place in the World.

To me, West Virginia is my home. It has all of my memories and is home to my favorite places. I may want to leave when i get older and move on to bigger and better places for myself, however, West Virginia will always have a special place in my heart. As for other people who live in West Virginia I think it means the same to most, others are more passionate and want to stay here forever instead of leaving, however there are some who don't care at all and are ready to leave and never look back. I think being passionate at heart about our home but doing what you think is best for you is the best choice to make in the end, but you can't control peoples emotions so what they decide is their choice. Outsiders, on the other hand, are a completely different story. Most of them look at us and see the country side more so than the main picture and I think thats ridiculous. Yes, most of us have the accent that people think about when they think of West Virginia, but we don't all act the way people think we do. I hate stereotyping and unfortunately, where we live, we are pretty much guaranteed to become a victim of it. I think that is one of the main reasons I have chosen to leave here to make something of myself, to show people that the stories and stereotyping isn't all true, at least not for all of us.

Button Tutorial

PJ came and helped us make our buttons work correctly today. We learned how to make our buttons on the pages and make them go to a different layer or page using codes. It was quite frustrating at times but once we got our coding right and fixed mistakes and made changes and got everything working it wasn't as bad as it was in the beginning and now we won't have to go through all of this stress when we are putting together our real games.

Drawing and Making Buttons in Flash

Katie and I started drawing in Flash by working on our title page and our mouse. I created the title page and Katie created the mouse, which was quite cute if I do say so myself. After we finished that I started on the title page buttons. I made one for rules and one for starting the game. Making the buttons the first time wasn't really that hard, however, when I went back to make one on a different page it didn't work for me, so I guess I will just need to continue working with it and figure out whats wrong.

The Canterbury Tales

In this blog post I will discuss things I learned about The Canterbury Tales through the prologue. While reading through the character list I realized that all of the characters were being put into a stereotype by the narrator, such as rich and/or poor. I think Chaucer chose to use stereotypes because it is more relatable since people have always been categorized as something. No matter where you go or what time period you are from there are very few places that actually treat you equally, no matter what a sign on a door may say. I think the characters played a very important role as to what society they were from; it showed that in certain time periods jobs were completely different then how we view them today. For example, in this story the merchant was considered rich and the doctor was considered lower class as opposed to today’s society where it is the opposite. I believe that this was indeed an honest depiction of the time and the people. Most of the characters I feel fit well for that certain time period such as the friar or the parson, which are terms you don’t normally hear today.

When you develop anything that will be used as entertainment whether it is a book, movie, play, or video game you have to have a flowing storyline. I think one of the most important characteristics of a video game is whether or not your characters fit well with your storyline. My last sentence means that you wouldn’t use certain characters in storylines that are something completely different from their actual style, for example, you wouldn’t put Superman in a video game that is used to help girls design outfits online. Hence, I think it is very important to use the correct characters in anything you design or develop, no matter what it may be, from paper to cyber space, characters still need to flow with their surroundings.

FLASH Blog #2

We've been continuing working with FLASH recently. Katie and I worked on a topic for our game as well as working with the layout of the screens were going to use. We creating a text box on FLASH and it was actually really easy. After we worked with FLASH we edited our game again on Friday, we tried to make it better, and I think we're doing okay. Katie and I have decided to be team Pinky and the Brain and I'm pretty sure our game is going to be pretty awesome. Guess we'll find out soon.