The Do's & Don't of Presenting! :)

    In Globaloria today we watched a video about students persenting and they told us what to do while presenting and they also told us what not to do while presenting. The students decribed every step inch by inch and it was very informational. When I say every step I mean that there is many certain things that you need to make sure you do or say in a presatation but there is also many things that you need to make sure you don't do or say. If you say the wrong thing it could mess up your presatation or it could get you off of track and make you stumble over your words. Presenting is very important and something you should always remember to do is look at the judges and make sure not mumble and get nervous because there is nothing to get nervous about. Mumbling is the very important thing you should make sure you don't do, because the audience or the judges may not be able to hear you, and they would grade you good on your presenting. Another thing that is important that you need to make sure you don't do is not to bring your paper right in front of your face nor you shouldn't hide your face with your paper. Using big words will make your prsentation better and more intertaning. Speaking loud and clearly will also help your presenting. Presenting is very important you just need to remember the things that you need to do and what not to do, and if you follow them rules I bet your presatation will be the greatest ever.

Thanksgving!!! : )

       
                  Wow, it's almost thanksgiving, and I can't wait! Thanksgiving is full of joy, and I am so thankful for it. This week is our last week of school for Sandy River then I will get to spend a whole week with my family and friends for Thanksgiving. I am so thankful to have friends like I do and the family that I have. Thanksgiving is going to be different this year but it is still going to be full of love a joy. The change is good because my family and I get to go to my aunt's house to have our Thanksgiving dinner, instead of them coming to our house. It is going to be so fun because we get to spend all night with each other and go shopping on Friday. Thursday is going to be the best though, because we are having dinner with each other and some of our family friends is getting to come also. I am just so thankful to have them people in my life to love and cherish. Oh and don't forget about my church family, we give out food to the families that don't have a lot and can't buy a meal for their Thanksgiving dinner. I am just so thankful to have church family as great as I do, and to be able to help with a helping hand. Thanksgiving is just so awesome and I can't for it to come around every year.

Mini Game

          Well, the mini game wasn't the easiest or the funniest, but in the end it was pretty good. I wasn't the best uploading it, and getting the code, so I had one of my globaloria friends to help me. She was excited to help me and learn me how to upload the mini game. The way that my friend Hannah helped me, she gave me advise that showed me and explained to me how to get the code and upload it. After that it was a little better and I understood it more. I am so glad to have a friend like her to explain things to me, and in the end the mini game wasn't so bad after all.

Team Work!!

        My team members is great. We agree on most of everything, although there are some tiny things we argue over. Arguing is a habit for sisters though, yes I said sisters. My partners ended been my bestfriends, sister, and other half. So when we argue it's because we are sisters. Although we have improved alot from the begining of the year, I just think that we have got older though. On our game we agree on almost everything, and we try and give each other the same amount of work to do on our game. So nothing really is a problem now. I am so thankful to have friends as great as them and to have them as my partners. I wouldn't change anything for them and I love them to death. And been besfriends I think that our game is going to be great.

Challenges in flash

       Although flash is fun and very helpful to our game, it is hard and a big challenge sometimes. Buttons is the easiest I think also creating scences with different key frames. Animations and coding is the biggest challenges to me and it can make our game slow sometimes because I have difficulties with them. Finding the codes is easy but the hard put is setting it up. Setting up the buttons is really fustrated to me. After practice and learning more about the coding I think that we could set it up great in our game. The one thing is, learning how to set them up. Overall I think we will get good with it, and our game will come together. Flash in awsome and I love to work with it and even with the challenges that come with it.

Paper Prototype

       My game is about the Allegheny Plateau, so that is what my partners and I are focusing on. Allegheny Plateau is one of the four geographic region's of West Virginia, and it is in our category of eighth grade, so that is why we are doing it on the Allgheny Plateau. My part in the game is to help my partners design it also gather information, so is my partners part. Some of our information came from learning in the West Virginia Studies class and on different WV sites. The reason that this game was chosen is because we are from West Virginia and we love to learn new things and facts that we don't know about the Allgheny Plateau. Flash is a major part in our game, because it has many resources such as animations, buttons, and designs that really make our game stand out. We haven't really had any trouble on our game yet,  but if I said something was hard it would probably be designing and drawing our game on flash the exact way that we want it. Paper prototype has really helped me in our game, and we all three plan on using it through out our game.

Non-Quiz game

       Today in globaloria we watched to videos, and the videos showed one quiz game and one non-quiz game. In my partners game and I, it will not be a quiz. Quiz games include like questions before playing the game. One video that we played and watched was fun because it wasn't quiz, you read a passage before playing the game, then you got to play the game. Another video that we watched wasn't fun, because it was a quiz, and was very boring. Although our game will not be like that, in our game you will have to read about our topic, then choose a game to play, kinda like what level you want to play.  We all can't wait to get our game finished because it is going to be fun to play, because it won't be a quiz game. Our game will be posted on our team page for everyone to see, judge it, after playing, and tell us what you think, is it a quiz game and boring to playor non-quiz and great to play.