My Reseach for Our Game

Mrs.Barker told us to blog about the research that we found about our game. So here is all the things that I found, so far, about our game. So here it is,
Three Branches of Government
In 1787, leaders of the states gathered to write the Constitution-a set of principles that told how the new nation would be governed. The leaders of the states wanted a strong and fair national government. But they also wanted to protect individual freedoms and prevent the government from abusing its power. They believed they could do this by having three separate branches of government: the executive, the legislative and the judicial. This separation is described in the first three articles, or sections, of the Constitution.
Legislative Branch
The legislative branch is made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives. The most important duty of the legislative branch is to make laws. Laws are written, discussed and voted on in Congress.
There are 100 senators in the Senate, two from each state. Senators are elected by their states and serve six-year terms. The Vice President of the U.S. is considered the head of the Senate, but does not vote in the Senate unless there is a tie. The Senate approves nominations made by the President to the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, federal courts and other posts. The Senate must ratify all treaties by a two-thirds vote.
There are 435 representatives in the House of Representatives. The number of representatives each state gets is based on its population. For example, California has many more representatives than Rhode Island. When Census figures determine that the population of a state has changed significantly, the number of representatives in that state may shift proportionately. Representatives are elected by their states and serve two-year terms. The Speaker of the House, elected by the representatives, is considered the head of the House. Both parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives elect leaders. The leader of the party that controls the house is called the majority leader. The other party leader is called the minority leader.
Executive Branch
The President is the head of the executive branch, which makes laws official. The President is elected by the entire country and serves a four-year term. The President approves and carries out laws passed by the legislative branch. He appoints or removes cabinet members and officials. He negotiates treaties, and acts as head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces.
So yeah I know that, that looks like a lot but if you really set down and think about it. If you really think about it, would you wreather have to read all of this or have the job of have to go though all of that to do the job. So, you say that you want to know how we are going to apply all of these words and things like that to our game? Well heres how we are going to put our heads together and find a way to put all of these facts together. I think that we will probably do something like this.....like have some fun facts and then have them look at a few things for a case then they will be in tje judges place to look at the proof and see which side they they think sould win the case. Or if Heather has a better idea we will compare the two and see which one wins and we will usa that method on the game.




Video got from http://www.viddler.com/
Facts got from http://www.factmonster.com/
Other things got from my mind!=-)

American History

What is your favorite part of American History? Mine is the Attack of Pearl Harbor. On a quiet Sunday morning, 68 years ago, a nation at peace was shaken out of its isolation and drawn into a war that changed the world forever. This was the Attack of Peal Harbor! The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters) was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. It resulted in the United States entry into World War II. There is a girl that I know whose birthday is on the day of the Attack on Pearl Harbor! I think that the attack of Pearl Harbor was an awful event that will scar everyone who knows about that day. It was a big impact om America and a big piece of history that, I don't think that America would be the same if that day never crossed the path of America. If you go to google earth (there is an website for it) you can see the remanes of the Pearl Harbor underneath the water in Hawaii. They just decided to leave the remanes of Pearl Harbor under the water do to all of the lives that were lost during that attack. So if you go to the website you can see the remanes of the Pearl Harbor, the water is so clear in Hawaii you can seethe remanes.

What all I have done in and throughout this unit

We are going to blog on three units. The units are Adding Sounds, Adding Navigation, and Adding Animations. So I really have worked on these three units! It could be very confusing, but it all worked out! Here is a link to a wedsite that you and I could get some info on Flash and learn how to work the whole program. So here it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash. I think that if you try to do something in Flash, you can do anything that you set your mind to. I did not think that I could do all of the things that I am doing now, but you know what I am. Do you want to know why I cna do all of these things? I set my mind to it, and I watched the little videos and I followed the man int he videos and you know what happened I found out how to do the things and I know hjow to do all these things now and I probably never will forget them. Now I know how to make a Motion Teen, a Movie Clip, and a lot more things to do with the Flash program. We have done a lot in this unit for our game. So far we have put sound on some parts of our game. Heather showed me what all she has got done and I think that she has really got the hang of all of the Flash details. We have got all the way to the first level.

West Virginia Health Care Issues

I am the senator of West Virginia. I am here to make a new amendment. My goal is to propose a new amendment concerning the problems, freedoms or rights of your choice through a persuasive blog to convince the Senate at the nation’s capitol to accept your new idea. My new amendment is for health care. I think that everyone should get at least some kind of benefits. It Doesn't have to be 100% paid for, just at least 80%. Health care (often health care in American English), is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions. Which also includes health insurance! There are some doctors,alternative medicine, and pharmaceutical, that will not see you if you do not have health insurance. There are people out there that are sick and can not afford to go to the doctor, so lets help them. So lets pass this amendment to give everyone a little bit or a lot of health care. I am so sure that all of the people that we help will be so thankful!

All of the facts I got from are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care.

Adding Navigation

The Adding Navigation unit has been very hard for me through out these last week. But, I've got the fang of it. it is getting easier every time I do something that involves a button or something like that. I have been uploading all of my files to My Projects Page. Here is the link to My Projects Page: http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User:Mcpeakcassie/Projects. We as in Heather Vance(my partner) and Myself are not ready to go to the next unit because all of our buttons do not work. We are working very hard on getting all of our buttons to work. I have came up at lunch and worked unit in the next class(third period).What questions do I still have about the unit? Well there are some but not a lot. Some like how does the whole system work?, and another like Why do you have to be in ceertain layers in Flash?. Some questions like that.




All picture are from
Main Website:
http://www.google.com/images
Other Websites:
http://www.zerofractal.com/
http://www.wwu.edu/techcenter/checkout/
Video got from:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/adamlocke/videos/11/

Drawing In Flash

I have worked with Flash sense the beginning of this unit. Flash is very tricky, so if you don't type or spell the actions right, it will not work. So if you do not type or spell the actions right you will think that you have messed the whole thing up. But if you go and check your actions, you will probably find your problem. I have learned that the curly bracets are the hardest part for me, but I know that if I check all my curly bracets I will probably find my problem. It is very hard to get used to, but after a while you will get the hang of it. Drawing in Flashcan be very fun or it can be the hardest thing that you have ever tried to do. So if you ever get a chance to work with flash take the chance! But be very careful. And make sure all your curly bracets are in the right places.

The picture I got , here is the website:

http://bradbambara.com/media/pics/sineWaves2.png

Swine Flu

Mrs. I. Barker has gave us a blog post to choose a topic to choose. I have decided to blog about the Swine Flu! I think it is a very dangerous! It has kill a lot of people. It is worse with the over weight people. It makes it hard to breathe. And pretty much makes doing anything hard at that matter. When you have the Swine Flu it is best for you to stay in doors.The Swine Flu can kill you in a few days maybe even a few hours.

What I have learned while I have worked on my game?

Well................ I have learned a lot. I think that our game will be a great game. Here is the link to our Team Page http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/Team:Tigers. I think that our Team Page is proof that we have done all of the work that we say we have done. So far I have done the Title screen and uploaded it to our Team Page. The title screen has three buttons on it. So that means that I will have to make 5 pages just for the title page. Heather has to do the About The Game. I think that she has that page done. The game is going to be a big hit! I think that we will wor good together.

What I have Learned about the Judical Branch while we have done our paper prototype!

I have learned all about the Judical Branch of government. I have leaned that the Judical Branch has to do with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. There is a basketball court in the Supreme Court building. The basketball court in the Supreme Court is very pretty.There were some people that came to our school.They came from Charleston. They said that we all had very good and cool game ideas. They told Heather and I to stay away from the quiz games, which is what we had at first. Then we change it to a fun and educational game. Our game is very fun, I think. The peoples names are David, Rachel, And Abbie Taylor. They were nice about everything. They told us to stay away from the quiz games like I said before. Then, we took the questions out and put two cases in.


Vidoe got from http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=100814&title=Judicial_Reveiw.

What about Your Game?

What about my game?

Well what do you want to know? Our game is going to be about one of the three branches of government. The branch is going to be the judicial branch, which involves the Supreme Court. I have qpuestions on my game about Sandra Day O'Connar and the Supreme Court. There are some questions on our game, such as What year did the first lady,(which is Sandra Day O'Connar) get into the Supreme Court? The answer is 1981. There are other questions like How many members does the Supreme Court have? The answer is 9 . And other questions like What year did Sandra Day O'Connar retired? Which is the year of 2005. There are other questions. We have 10 levels. All levels will be based on the Judicial branch.The way we have set up the game is that you can play the game, then after you get 10 points, you will be able to answer question. After you answer the question, you can go on to the next level. There is only 10 levels and when you get to the end of the 10th level you will see a page that says Congrats You Won! Our game is going to be lots of fun and challenging. You will learn lots of facts, but I think the way that we set up the game it will be a lot of fun learning all of these facts. The way we have set up this game, I think that it will be alot of fun. We have our game ideas on our Team Page. Here is the website for the page, http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/Team:Tigers

what does freedom of speech mean to you?

What does freedom of speech mean to you?

Freedom of speech means to me that you can say whatever you want and you won't get in trouble.

Are there any restrictions to your expression of views, likes, and dislikes?

Well it all on if it is appropriate for school or it is appropriate for your work place.

If Mr. Campbell forbid you to wear your favorite shirt to school, would he be right in doing so?

If it wasn't appropriate for school if he would tell me instead of getting mad (if he would do that). I would probably understand. I would not wear the shirt to school again.

If your locker was searched, would you have a right to refuse a search? Why?

Yes, because that is your personal place to keep all of you things.

Here are two websites that have things to do with the bill of rights: http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/bill_of_rights-ws.htm
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36232

Game Idea Blog

Our game idea is going to be about the Judicial Branch of government. I think it will be fun and educational. The Judicial Branch of governmentis mainly about the Supreme Court. You can tell because it the letters jud in it. These letters are the main letters of the word judge. As you all know that you can not have a court without a judge. The loading page of our game is going to be a basketball that is black and white, and as the page loads the basketball will get color and by the time the whole game has loaded the basketball will be orange. The first page is goingto be when you can chose your character (which will be a boy or girl). Then you can chose the age of your character (which will be from the age of one through fifteen). Then the second page will be the first level. All of the levels has at least four pages with it. All of the 10 levels are like that.

What can I do? 10-02-09

What can I do? Well, that is a very hard question, because I could hardly cut a computer on, but now I can do more than I could before. Now I can do all kinds of things, that invovle computers. Here are some blogs on Civics http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/14/three-branches-of-government/, and http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/lbrillante/2009/05/all-three-branches-of-governme.php. I thought that these blogs are very good. So, I am going to add them to my blog list. My grade in this class is an A! Yahhh!!! Because I have been working very hard on all my projects.

The Tree of Washington: The Three Branches of Government from Paul Baresel on Vimeo.

What I have learned in Globaloria!

What I have learned in Globaloria? Well, lets see i have learned that I can work with computers, more than what I could when I started this class. When I started this class I could hardly work a computer, but now I know almost all I need to know about them. I think this class is hard at some points, and at other points the class is very easy. I think that after I get my first mid-term and see my grade for this class,(if the grade is good), which I hope it is. If the grade is good, I think that I will be able to have alot of fun while at the same time I am learning how to do some very important things. If I pass this class this year I will be more than happy to take it again, next year. In this class we have our own home page at http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User:Mcpeakcassie. There are some games that was in the Playing to Learn unit. The games that I liked the best was Darfur is Dying, here is the website for the gamehttp://www.darfurisdying.com/, and the game Katrina:Tempest in Cresent City, also here is the website for this game, http://tempestincrescentcity.ning.com/game.