Post your videos!

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Make sure you post your videos before midnight on Saturday, December 10th!

Post your Scratch Files to the Scratch Website

Today, you'll be sharing your game creations with the rest of the world!

 

First, you'll need to go to http://scratch.mit.edu/ and register for an account.

 

Then, within the Scratch program, choose 'Share' and then 'Share This Project Online'.

 

After that, you'll send me the link to your game and you're done!!

Evaluation Rubric

Make sure you have your entire pdf embedded on your blog by the end of the first class next week!

 

Here's the evaluation rubric:

 

4 Topics to Study

Find some articles on the following topics and analyze them with the ITGS triangle. Try to use as many words from the Vocabulary List as you can!

 

Bank Fraud/Security/Authentication/Online Finance/ATMs

Multimedia in the news and in the classroom

Weather sensors, simulations

Robots in the military and medicine

Photoshop Tutorial

http://mashable.com/2010/08/12/12-beginner-tutorials-for-getting-started-with-photoshop/

Great website for Photoshop Tutorials (and MANY other programs, too!).

 

Also, check out http://pixlr.com/editor/ for another VERY powerful image editor (and it's free!).

Games!

We're getting close to the end of the Semester, folks. This means we need to be aware of the deadlines that are coming up.

 

Games should be ready for kids to play them on December 8th (next Thursday).

All Evaluations should be done and your ENTIRE PDF should be up on your blog by Monday, December 12th!!

You must post your ENTIRE pdf on your blog (using Issuu). See this post for the instructions on using issue if you forget.

Time to think about Time

 

Okay, this is not exactly ITGS-related, but I thought you'd be interested in this article. Have a read:

 

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/09/01/ten-things-everyone-should-know-about-time/

 

Also, take a look at this link for an interesting article on Robot Prison Guards!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15893772