Playing to learn, Genre: Strategy

Strategy games require you to use critical thinking and making very careful decisions about your next move. Strategy game also require you to analyzing the situation.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:

PaleoQuest

2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:

Ayiti the Coast of Life.

3. The game or games I liked the best:

Ayiti the Coast of Life.

4. What happens in the game or games:
In this game you have to pick your strategy, either happiness, health, money, or education and when the seasons change you have to make sure your whole family is healthy and happy.

5. How you play the game or games:

To play this game you have to click on each family member and make sure they are all healthy and happy. You also have to make sure the houses and garden is all taken care of.

Playing to learn, Genre Puzzles and Mazes

Puzzle and Maze games are usually to make the player think about the next move fast with little time. These games are usually hard and the player has to find their way out of somewhere or solve a problem fast.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:

Cubefield

2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:
I couldn't find a game that really taught about a social issue, but if I could make a game about a social issue, it would be about getting the poverty people on the streets and take them to homeless shelters so they can turn their life around and no be poor anymore and do something successful with their life.

3. The game or games I liked the best:
Cubefield

4. What happens in the game or games:
You have to get a little spaceship like object and take it to the end of the cubefield.

5. How you play the game or games:

You have to use the arrow keys to move the spaceship and move it side to side and try not to hit any of the cubes. If you do hit any of the cubes you die and have to try again.

Playing to Learn, Genre:Adventure

Adventure games are characterized by a centered around a theme of exploration and plot development. Adventure games instead require careful thought and planning.

1. The game or games that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:
Sally's Energy Ride

2. The game or games that taught me about a new or existing social issue:
Synchronized Saviors

3. The game or games I liked best:
Synchronized Saviors

4. What happens in the game or games:
A little robot thing is cleaning up the environment around him that is covered in filth and also trying to save energy by putting solar panels and water devices in his environment.

5. How you play the game or games:

You drag the garbage into the little robot to clean the level setting. And as the levels increase, you have to drag solar panels and water devices to save energy.

Playing to learn, Genre:Action

Action games comprise a very wide variety of activities with some basic similarities of gameplay. Action games usually require fast reflexes and timing to overcome challenges and often (but not always) include combat as a main theme.

Game that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:

The game Trap Cat taught me that their are way to many cats on the streets and that can harm us as humans and that we need to do something about it.

Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:

Immune System Defender

Game I liked best:
Trap Cat

What happens in the game:
The game Trap Cat taught me that their are way to many cats on the streets and that can harm us as humans and that we need to do something about it.

How do you play it:

You have to click on the cats to have them not on the streets anymore.

Trap Cat: http://www.austinhumanesociety.org/resources/trapcat

Immune System Defender: http://www.brainpop.com/games/immunesystemdefender/

How did gamers use the computer game Foldit to solve the protein folding mystery?

They tried to picture how the virus would look and stuided it.

Who can participate in this problem sloving and be a player in Foldit?

Anyone with a strong critical thinking skills can participate in the solution.

What can critical thinking do for science?

Allowing for gamers with no background in biochemistry to solve puzzles that continue to mystify scientists today.

If you could solve any mystery through gaming for any kind of disease or illness in the world, what would it be?

If I could solve any mystery through gaming it would be to find how to cure cancer or to get rid of it. Cancer is super deadly and I would like to find out how to cure it before it becomes a bigger problem world wide.

Mini Game

In Globaloria we had to make a mini game. We had to do 7 steps and upload everyone to our Wiki Projects Page. Making the game it self, wasn't hard. But the coding was confusing. Instead of just adding the codes to the bottom, you had to figure out where to put the coding because sometimes it belongs at the top of the whole code and sometimes you were just adding it to the bottom of everything. When I was putting in the first part of the code, my carrot wasn't moving at all, I checked everything, but found out it was my clouds in the background that had the coding and that's why my carrot wasn't working. After that incident, everything was smooth sailing and Had no problem with the mini game, making it or uploading it.

9/11

How old were you on September 11, 2001?

-On September 11, 2001, I was about 4 years old.

When did you first learn about the attacks and who explained the events to you?

-I learned about the events in 2nd grade when the anniversary of 9/11 came again the next year.

What kind of effect did this have on your life or your parents life?

-This effected my family's life because we all felt unsafe. I mean there could be more terrorist in the world and they can be anywhere and everywhere.

What is the issue with this game?

-The issue of the game is that it brings back bad memories and people start to think about family/ friends that past away in this event.

What do you feel about it?

-I think that this was a bad idea because this brings back bad memories of family and friends that died in this event.

What is the problem about portraying on such an awful violent event through a video game?

-Its bad because people don't want to remember this horrible event that happened in history.

How can you make sure your web games tell the whole story or teach a lesson in an horrible way?

-I can make sure the web game tells the whole story by getting as much research as I could.