Power+Game

 POWER GAME TECH 1 ** 

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===Area of Interaction: Environments === ===Significant Concepts: Basic video programming and the appeal of virtual environments. === ===Unit Question: What is the appeal of a virtual environment? ===

===REQUIREMENTS: === > >  **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">INVESTIGATE ** > **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">1. Take the Power Game Test on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skyward] .** > ** 2. ****<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? **<span style="color: #800065; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">It can help us solve problems in our everyday life. > **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">3. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment? It looks cool and sounds real.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are environments? **<span style="color: #400080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Your surroundings!!
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are the requirements of this assignment? **<span style="color: #008071; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Up above..

>>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the plan I outlined below: ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 1: Skyward Test, Design Folder on your wikispace, answer the Investigate and Plan sections. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 2: Finish Skyward Test, Investigate, and Plan sections. Start Power Game. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 3: Complete first level. Don't forget that the width for each level needs to be at least 2600. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 4: Complete second level. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 5: Complete third level. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 6: Complete fourth level. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 7: Complete 5th level and the entire Design Folder, including uploading pictures on your wikispace. ** >>> >>> >>> **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">CREATE ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">4. Did you follow the plan I made for you? No, we did not do the Skyward test first, but we did everything after that. ** >>> **<span style="color: #ff00b2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> 5. Does your game meet all the requirements? Yes ** >>> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6. How could you improve your game? We could have made it easier because we included holes that didn't look like holes. ** >>> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">7. Share your game with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your game? ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">8. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? Answer both questions below! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">PLAN **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Be nice to my software and computer. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the steps of the plan I made you for you! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Pay attention to the quality of your work! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Don't be a whiny baby that I have to babysit! **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">EVALUATE **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #2e0daf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">** They liked how it was unpredictable. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Investigate: <span style="color: #0f0f10; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We did well by figuring out how to make the level before starting on our game. We could have done better by spending more time using it. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Plan: <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We did well by following the plan, Ms. Bradfield gave us, but we could have made improvements by how fast we were making the game. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Create: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We did well by meeting all the requirements of the game, we could have done better by adding more explosions and making the levels harder. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Evaluate: <span style="color: #44d546; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We did well by looking at the requirements before evaluating our game, we could have made our game better with more animations. **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">15. Were you responsible in using the software and computer? <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Yes **

>>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">16. What is the appeal of a virtual environment? Anything can happen in a virtual environment. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">17. What problems did you have using power game? <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We had problems with trying to figure out how to connect the hotspot to the next level. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">18. What did you like the least about power game? <span style="color: #008047; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We didn't like that you had to make your characters and that there weren't more options that you could do. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">19. What did you like the best about power game? <span style="color: #3a8000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We liked how you could play your game at any time. ** >>> **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">20. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6) <span style="color: #800017; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6 ** >>> >>> >>> <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px;">**THIS IS HOW YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR LETTER GRADE:**
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===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">TOTAL = 100 POINTS ===

>>>>> ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Quality (5 Levels) = +50 ===

>>>> ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Followed the Design Cycle = +30 ===

>>> ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Attitude = +20 ===

>> ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How has technology impacted our environment? <span style="color: #00800c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It has made transportation & communication easier. ==

> ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How has virtual environments changed our society? <span style="color: #806600; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It has made it so we can go online. ==

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Upload all of your pictures onto your wikispace. === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Name all of your pictures, "Power Game 1", Power Game 2", Power Game 3", and "Power Game 4". === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Take one picture of each of your levels. You should have at least 5 pictures. ===
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Make at least 5 levels on your video game. Your width for each level should be at least 2600.   ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">You must work on this video game for 7 days. You should add new elements to your game every day! === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Create your own video game using Power Game. === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Copy and Paste this page onto your wikispace. ===
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Create a new page on your wiki. Name it "Power Game".   ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Take the Power Game Test on Skyward. ===


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