11-26-2013 Music

Music today!

11-25-2013 Make Up Day!

Start with Typing Club for 10 minutes.  USE THE CORRECT FINGERS!

Then you can put finishing touches on your board game.  This is your VERY LAST DAY TO WORK ON YOUR BOARD GAME!  Make sure your rules are good.  If good, give them to Ms. Rickard and she will laminate them if you like.

Also work on your Radio Commercial for Mr. Hotaling, or your can work on your Scratch commercial. Click here to see that assignment here!

Also, check out this book for Scratch Programmers.

11-22-2013 Embed your project into your website

Today we finish up our Scratch commercial.

First, let's embed our project in our website.

Please open your Scratch project in one tab, your website in another.

11-21-2013 Continue working on Scratch!

Continue working on your Scratch project.

Be sure to include all elements required for the project.  Remember the elements needed for a high score such as costume changes, a background, movement, sound, text, etc.

See assignment here.

Watch the YouTube tutorials here if you have questions about things like Costume Change.

See if you can use Hide and Show.

11-20-2013 Narrative!

Most great games are based on a narrative. Think about your favorite game. What is the narrative? Does the narrative make the game more interesting?

Click here to watch the narrative at the beginning of Waker.  Doesn't it make the game more interesting?

What are some elements of the game narrative?

A hero
Friends
The enemy
Places
A Quest
Objects for the Quest
Obstacles to overcome

Continue working on your Scratch Commercial.  Remember the elements needed for a high score such as costume changes, a background, movement, sound, text, etc.

See assignment here.

Click here to watch YouTube tutorials on Scratch.

11-19-2013 Welcome Scratchers!

Please get your computer, find your seat and take out your ear buds.

Log in and go to Chrome.

Go to my STEAM website.  Click here for the assignment.

Welcome to the STEAM Advertising Campaign for your Game Design Concept!

Do we have any Scratch experts?

1. For this unit, we will create an online commercial using Scratch!
2. We will embed our commercial on our Google Site!
3. We will add our commercial to the LOMS Game Design Advertising Campaign Studio

Each team member will create their own commercial.  You can make a four part commercial with your other team members or your own stand alone commercial.

Click here to find the requirements for the project.

All good games are based on a narrative.  Think about your favorite game.  What is the narrative?
Click here to learn more about narratives.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click here to watch YouTube tutorials on Scratch.

See if you can use Hide and Show.

11-18-2013 Go to Burrus

Rickard core to Burrus

Spindler core to Music

11-14-2013 Last Day To Finish Board Games!

This is it!  Let's make it count.

Today you must finish everything on your board game.

Then we will evaluate our participation in the project and we will evaluate our team members participation.

11-13-2013 Board Game Make Up Day

Welcome back to STEAM!

Radio Advertisement!  Some need to turn in to Hotaling.  Click here for the Turn In.

Today we will use today and tomorrow to put the finishing touches on our board games.

I want to focus on the rules today.  We will print them out on Card Stock.

11-12-2013 Music!

Music today!

11-8-2013 Let's embed our Scratch commercials!

Click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page for instructions.

11-6-2013 Music

Music today.

11-5-2013 Let's talk about narrative!

All good games are based on a narrative.  Think about your favorite game.  What is the narrative?

Click here to learn more about narratives.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.

11-4-2013 Welcome Scratchers!

Please take a seat and take out your ear buds.  We will get computers by table.

Log in and go to Chrome.

Search for:  rickardsteam.blogspot.com
(You can also go to LOMS website, click faculty, Rickard, then STEAM if you want to work at home.)

Welcome to the STEAM Advertising Campaign for your Game Design Concept!

Do we have any Scratch experts?

1. For this unit, we will create an online commercial using Scratch!
2. We will embed our commercial on our Google Site!
3. We will add our commercial to the LOMS Game Design Advertising Campaign Studio

Each team member will create their own commercial.  You can make a four part commercial with your other team members or your own stand alone commercial.

Click here for the assignment.