Mike Monley

Mike is a middle school Computer Applications teacher.



School
Niver Creek Middle School in Thornton, CO

How will I introduce Scalable Game Design in my school?
I plan to use Agentsheets in my 6th and 7th grade classes. I teach one 6th grade class and one 7th grade classes each trimester so I will be teaching Agentsheets to six total classes throughout the year. I plan to use Agentsheets for a two week unit creating a Frogger game in 6th grade and pacman in the 7th grade. I plan use use the lesson plans but I stretched them out into 2 week time frame out as necessary. I also plan to use a modified rubric to access each students' work.

June 9, 2010
Today I took the time this morning to get my pacman game uploaded to the wiki and work on my Virus game. We had a few sessions in the morning, the most helpful was the troubleshooting discussion. I have been using other peoples rubrics to grade and that has been helpful.

June 8, 2010
We created pacman again today. We created it last year but I had a hard time with diffusion last year. I have a lot better understanding of Agentsheets this year and was very happy to go over pacman again, especially the diffusion portion. I also am happy there are lesson plans for pacman posted on the wiki. I plan to have my classes attempt pacman next year.

June 8, 2009
We learned how to create a Frogger game from scratch. This was my first time using Agentsheets. After becoming familiar with the terminology and being walked through getting a Frogger game started I completed creating my game.

June 9, 2009
We began to learn Sokoban.

June 10, 2009
Today we went to Fred Gluck's class and observed and finished out Sokoban.