Darrell Stice

School

 * Ft. Lupton Middle School

How will I introduce Scalable Game Design in my school?
I will use it for my math class.

Project Journal
Summer Institute, June 1-11, 2010

Reflection 1, June 1, 2010

I'm so excited about Scalable Game Design after today! Making my own version of Frogger was REALLY rewarding! To start from scratch and to be able to create a game virtually the same as the one I played as a kid was super exciting! The middle schoolers I teach will feel the same way I just know it! I can't wait to get back to school and get started!

Reflection 2, June 2, 2010

Wow, today was pretty tough! Making Space Invaders is really challenging and I'm not as confident in my abilities as I was after yesterday. Creating the characters is really fun, and it brings out a creative side of me I haven't tapped into in years! However, creating movement in the "aliens" was really complicated and confusing, which is causing a lot of anxiety for me. On the bright side, though, I didn't realize just how much PROBLEM SOLVING would go into this! Being a math teacher, that makes me even MORE excited to take this back to my classroom!

Reflection 3, June 3, 2010

Today we made our own "Sims" game. It's a pretty simple game, yet it definitely has its own unique set of challenges. Creating the diffusion wasn't as difficult, and I feel pretty good about being able to do it on my own. I definitely need to practice using the tutorials more!

Example of Multiple Needs and Absorbing

www.youtube.com/watch

Example of Transport

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIvm_2ay-U

Example of Collision

www.youtube.com/watch

Reflection 4, June 4, 2010

Wow, what a week! This is SO challenging, but the reward FAR outweighs the challenge! I'm nervous to teach this the first time, but I know I'll work as hard as I need to in order to help my students be successful with it! I spent all day working on bettering my Frogger game and at times I felt like I was messing it up more than I was improving it, but in the end it turned out to be a really nice game that I'm very proud of!

Reflection 5, June 7, 2010

Today we created a simulation of a virus. This bridged a huge gap from the Agentsheets program to classroom applications for me! I am so excited for what this program can do for our students!

Reflection 6, June 8, 2010

Today we built a Pacman game. This was the project I was most excited about! I had been thinking about my characters for days, and I couldn't wait to start! I even started designing my characters a day early! If I can get my students that excited about something we are doing in class, then I think I'll be way ahead of the game! Making Pacman was pretty complicated and I'm still working on improvements, but it's by far the most fun to design and play!

Reflection 7, June 9, 2010

I think the best part of today was getting to go thru problems with games and figure out what was wrong with them. As a teacher, I know I'll do more of this than anything else. It was really helpful for my confidence to realize that I knew how to fix most of the problems placed before me.

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Lesson Plans
This is an example from Sandy Rea's page that linked lesson plans in documents.

Here's a website with my Frogger Tutorial, which also references and links to the Frogger Tutorial on the Scalable Game Design Wiki: http://schools.bvsd.org/aspencreek2/computer/Frogger/index.html


 * [[Media:Frogger_intro.ppt|SlideShow Intro into AgentSheets &amp; Frogger ]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Outline_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plan Outline for Frogger (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_1_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 1 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_2_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 2 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_3_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 3 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_4_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 4 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:Frogger_Lesson_Plan_Day_5_sandy_rea.doc|Lesson Plans for Frogger Day 5 (in progress)]]
 * [[Media:UploadingGameToArcade.doc|Step-by-step guide for preparing and uploading game to Arcade]]

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