Cassie's Globaloria Blog

Imagining Your Game

2010-09-24T05:30:00.000-07:00

Well, so far with Imagining our Game has been very simple we just wrote the Ideas that just popped into our heads in the flash document and then we had to upload it, and then we had to paste or put it on our projects page. So, I think that this year will be going very good. I think that the gmae this year will be very interesting for all of us to se and to make! I am hopeing that the year is gooding to be good! So,, if you need some help when you get stuck on the Flash or some thing just some to Kilie or Myself. Well thatr is all for now!!!!!

Our Game Genre is....... the world may never no!!!

2010-09-03T05:29:00.000-07:00

What is the Genre of our game, is what you ask? The world may never know! No, really it's a secret and I will not tell you! Okay, I give you three guesses and the first two don't count. Okay, I'll tell you. The genre of our gme is Puzzle! Yes I know that we will go and do what we can on our game. Here are the links to the Wiki Pages of my partners and my pages.

Kilies:

http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User:Kilie_mullins13

Mine:

http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User:Mcpeakcassie

What is hard and what is NOT?!

2010-04-22T05:30:00.000-07:00

What is hard and What is not? Well, that is kind of a hard question! Things that one person thinks is hard, the next person may think that it is not as hard as you think that you think that it is! I think that the ahrdest part of teaching about Civics and the The First Admendment, is trying to combined Basketball and The First Admendment.

Our Game-Making Audience

2010-04-15T05:12:00.000-07:00

Well, it really hard to tell if sources are reliable are not.So have you heard about the Upper Branch Mine the had that really bad explosion? Well, that was really bad because there were 25 to 29 menthat were killed in that mine. There were a lot of violations on that mine when the explosion happen. Here are some of the violations, well most of the violations were on the the safety.
Federal records showed the Massey Energy subsidiary received 548 citations in 2009 and 122 so far in 2010. So, you really never know when the people of the world are telling the trust about something or not.

Other Game

2010-03-31T05:15:00.000-07:00

This week I am going to tell you about a game that I played just a few minutes ago. The game was made by the Muffin Tanks. They seem to know what they are doing with the Flash program. They probably know more about it than I do.So, if you are going to try to do something in Flash, go to them. The people that have made the game are the Lexy, Quintin, and last by not least Tyler Curfman. So, here is their Paper Prototype. So, if you ahve any questions about their game you should not ask me, you should ask them.Soo, here are some of the things that I like about the game. So, here they are I like the way that the three people work together and how they put all of the scenes together to make the game worth what they think that it should be worth. There are all kinds of things that I likre about the game, but there is only a certain amount of time that I can use to blog. So, I am very happy for these three people who have made this game.

Game Demo Presentations

2010-03-26T05:13:00.000-07:00

The game that I am going to blog about is the "Whitehouse Runners", this game was made by the team Smarties. In the team Smarties are the two people that are in this class with me. Their names are Amber Hurley and Angel Kennedy. I am going to tell you about their Finished Game, well what they have so far. So, just in case that you do not know what their game is going to be about, you can go to viddler.com, and search Smarties Paper Prototype, From there it is easy. Just click on the picture of the video. Then you will see/watch the video. So, here is what they have so far. It is very cool. So, I can not wait to play the finished product. So, if you would like to look at the Paper Prototype then just look down there, and watch the video. So, I hope that the finished producct that it comes out to bo is just what they want it to be.

Wiki artifact from our Team Page And The Story Behind Them

2010-03-19T05:12:00.000-07:00

The artifact that I am going to tell you about it the Paper Prototype. We think that the Paper Prototype is the most important part of the game. We think that the Paper Prototype has helped us a lot. So, there is a lot that we still have to do, but I think that we can get it done before the deadline. Well if you look at our Team Page you will see that we have done a lot of work. So if you will go to this website, http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/Team:Tigers then you will see all of the work that we have done. Then if you go to the Game Demo Page then you will see our Game Demo. Our Game Demo that we have created, yes it was difficult, but we have got this far, why not finish. So here is the story behind the whole thing. The story is that we had to go to the Spanish Room and we had to record there. Yes, we had to do the thing like three times, but hey it was worth it. So, there you have the story for our Paper Prototype.

Finding Solution

2010-03-18T06:39:00.000-07:00

Well I think that if there is something that is wrong with your game then you should try to do something about it yourself, before you go and try to get a teachers help. If you do not try to do something about it yourself, then you will never ever be able to do anything without smeone elses help. So, the example that I am going to use is, when your action script gliches. You have to try to fix it. If that does not work then you have to retype the whole thing over again. Then, if that does not work then you have to work on it over and over again. The way I do it, is then I just try to fix the thing. If I can not fix it after I have tried everything that I know to do, then I go to my teacher, Mrs.Barker. I think that if she can not fix it then we have to do the whole thing over. So, if you do not think that you can dothe thing by yourself, then you can do what you can and if you cannot do anything else. Then this is the good part. This is the part that most of you will like. Now, you can go to your teacher. So,just try to fix the thing by yourself, before you run to your teacher.

The Presidential Cabinet

2010-03-12T05:32:00.000-08:00

In the Presidential Cabinet, there are a lot of people that are very important to the whole Cabinet. There are very different jobs that all of the people have to do. The President's Cabinet consists of the provost and chief academic officer as well as the vice presidents. There are at least three or four people and their jobs that I have to blog about. Secretary of State is one of the people/jobs. There is the Secretary of State, The Secretary of Treasury, and the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General. These people’s jobs are very important to us. They put their whole day in for us. The Secretary of State is appointed by the President. Along with the advice and of the Senate. The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies. The Secretary of Treasury is another on that I have to blog about, also. The United States of America Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury.The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and, since the Clinton years, has sat on the United States National Security Council. The Secretary of the Treasury is fifth in the United States presidential line of succession.

Some Facts got from:
http://www.umuc.edu/president/cabinet/cabinet.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury

Intro To The People In Our Group And Our Game

2010-03-01T07:18:00.000-08:00

Hello my name is Cassie McPeak and my team name is Tigers. The other person that is in my group is Heather Vance. Here is our user names for the wiki, Mcpeakcassie and Heather212003. There is a lot of work that we have done for our game. All of that work is on our Projects Page. There is a lot of work on our Game Demo section on our Projects Page. We are hoping that our game will be a finished product by our deadline.

What is plagiarism?

2010-01-29T06:27:00.000-08:00

Q.) What is copyright law is and what the importance of Fair Use section is for you as a student.

A.) Well the copyright law is that when someone writes something down on paper or anything, it is protected by the copyright law. If you try to copyright anything that someone else has wrote and do not have anything that gives the author credit for his or her work. Here is a link that tells more about plagiarism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism.

Q.) The works that are and are not protected by copyright.

A.) The works that are protected by the copyright law are the work that is the work of the the famous authors that have worte it. Here are two links to some examples of workprotected by the copyright law, http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html and http://www.ehow.com/video_4467954_learn-protected-under-copyright-law.html. The work that is not protected by the copyright law, could be public domain.

A.) The work(s) that is/are protected by the copyright law are the work that is protected from anyone getting the work and putting thier own words in it, and then putting thier name on it and saying that it is thier work.

Q.) What public domain is and how it can affect your work.

A.) Public Domain is when the public can use your work without your peomission.. And how is, it can affect your work by the public can put thier own words to the work. That could change the whole thing that you have written.

Q.) How much text, video, or music you can use in your work (in your games as well!).

A.) Really as much as you want, but if you use it off of a website, you would need to put somewhere on the page that the text, video, or music is on, credit for the person who put all of that on the internet. If it where me, even if it was public domain, I would still give them credit for thier work.

My New Years Resolution

2010-01-22T05:38:00.000-08:00

Well I really did not think of a new years resolution for this class. So, can you help me make one? So, lets make my new years resolution shall we? So, I think that it will be to finish the game before the finshing up date. So, I think that the game will be the greatest game I every made. So, far I have got a lot of stress out of the button to make my loading scene go to my title scene. I found the problem, it was the other three butttons on my title scene. I had made the title scene in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional 3.0 and I had to copy the scenes in the 3.0 and paste them in the 2.0. Then, when I tried to get my other button working in the 2.0 it would not work. Then I had to redo all three button on the title scene because the three buttons did not understand the 2.0 code and the other three buttons on the title scene would not let the other button work! But now I have the two scenes go from one to the other. So, here is the Flash file. Click on the green next button in the bottom right hand corner. So, hope that I can get to my goal and I hope that I can finish our game. I hope we can get everything done with the game finished. I also hope that we can win something at the contest and even if we don't I will still be happy because I would know that I did do something that will make me and hopefully Heather happy.

In Loving Memory Of Jordan M.

2010-01-21T05:17:00.000-08:00

Well this has been a really, really bad two days for me. Why you ask because my sisiter's ex-boyfriend's brother died on Tuesday night in his sleep and then yesterday my friend Jordan died at the basketball game with Mt. View!! When I heard that on the radio, I just was shocked because I thought that it was a different Jordan! But when I heard his last name come from my best friend's lips I though I was going to die!! I feel like I lost my brother even though I barely even knew him, but he did everything with his brother and his brother is really, really strong. He came to school today with a shirt that one of our friends' mom made him. It has something to do with, in loving memory of Jordan, or something like that. I think that i would have came to school to, but only with the comfort of something that was my brother's or sister's like their clothes or something. Like I told my best friend this morning on the bus, " I think that it is so weird because you can be having a really good time with someone, so lets say Jordan. So you are talking and laughing with him and you turn around for a split second and boom he is laying in the gym floor and he is dieing and there is nothing that anyone could do! So what do you do? Me personally, I would start freaking out and I would have a panic attack. I wish that I could tell his brother the right words to make him feel better, but I know that the word that I said would probably not change the way that he feel about his brothers death. a least he is okay! know that that isn't the thing that is so terrible here. But, anyway there is at least one that is okay, even though we all want both of them to be here, but we always don't get our way. God's got a life planned out for all of us! So, don't take atvantige of all the time that you spend with the people that you love and or care for. Please, don't I learnt that the hard way. And I can tell that you all have got to have been taking atvantige of what you do in the time that you spend with those pepole you love and or care about. He did everything with his brother. They played sports together and everything. They played all of the sports for the school together, and they had fun. All the sports are basetbll, of course, baseball, and football. And I think that the two together makes a GREAT TEAM!!!

My Reseach for Our Game

2009-12-18T05:22:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-11T08:04:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-04T05:26:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-25T05:15:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-20T05:11:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-13T05:21:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-09T05:26:00.000-08:00

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?

2009-10-30T06:03:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-10-16T05:17:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-10-09T07:03:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-08T06:29:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-02T05:14:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-09-28T05:28:00.000-07:00

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.