Blog Archive

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

2012 Globey Awards in the Spotlight



Go to the link below and read the blog post written by one of the Austin Chronicle writers, James Renovitch. 


After reading this article, begin a new post and answer the following questions:

1. What did you think about the article?
2. How did it make you feel to read about your school and GLobaloria, a program that you participate in.
3. If your game was featured in the article, how did it make you feel? Proud, happy? 
4. If your game was not featured in the article, what would you like for the author to have said about your game? 
5. Which game do you think the author should have mentioned in his article and why?


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Final Playable Games

So, here were are at the end of the year! Can you believe how fast this school year went by? It will only move quicker as you grow older. Remember to make the most of your youth so that you can one day look back on your accomplishments with pride.

Speaking of accomplishments, it is time to enter your final game in the EACP Game Gallery. This is your chance to show off the hard work you put into creating an effective and fun learning game. One more place I would like you to show off your final product is in a blog post. Please create a new post and title it "Final Game". Take the .SWF file of your game from the wiki and embed it in this post. If you do not remember how to do this, go to Blogging Tips in the wiki for a reminder. After you embed this file, write a short description of your game. Include the following information:
Name of your team. 
Title of your game.
Topic of your game.
What is the Learning Goal? 
How will the player learn about the topic from playing your game? 
What you would like to add or improve upon in the game? 
What was the most challenging part of creating this game? 
What are you most proud of or what did you figure out through critical thinking and trial/error? 

Make sure you publish the post to double check that it is formatted correctly and that the game is playable. If it is not, you will lose points. By the way, you all did a fantastic job this year!


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Play A National Award Winning Game and Help Send Students to Silicon Valley


Some of the 8th Grade Globaloria students at East Austin College Prep will be taking an educational trip to Silicon Valley this June. At EAPrep, all students take a game design class called Globaloria, in which they design and program educational and social issue games in Flash. They are raising funds to take a trip to Silicon Valley and need your help getting there. Please feel free to play their games in this virtual arcade. These games require no tokens or quarters to play, but we do appreciate your donation.


Thank you for your support!

  
Game Created by La Sopa Copyright 2012
  
Ball World- Ball World was created by Michael A. of Green Bugs 2012. He won the AMD Game Changer Award and Gold Medal in the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for this game.





Game created by MMM Copyright 2011

More games coming soon.......