Creating Our Team Page

The past two days, we've been working on our team pages. We're ampping out our games, doing things like describing each level. I got the team leader and the coder. My team hasn't really fought over anything big, YET. We've just argued about who's going to talk in the videos, and how many ninjas Taylor will draw in one day. I look forward to making our game though. I can't wait to see the final product, and I really hope the kids it targets will enjoy playing it. All we want is a game that kids will find fun and

Educational Games

Yes, I do think games can create an educational atmosphere. Do all games? No. I do believe that games can be made that teach children while they have fun playing the games. I've played plenty of educational games, like the games on StudyIsland, the games from the Playing to Learn unit, and games on sites like CoolMath, ect. I do enjoy playing games and learning something from them. If I remember correctly, thats how I learned how to add and subtract fractions when I was little. So I've personally learned something from a video game.

Our Game

Over the past few days, Taylor, ElleMae, and I have been coming up with game ideas, making a team page, ect. We finally decided to do a game on multiplication and division. Our game is going to be about a ninja named Ling Chou. In our game, Ling Chou is going to travel all over the world fighting the henchmen of the villian, whose name we haven't came up with yet, but we're working on that right now. The past three days we've typing up our game ideas in flash, and brainstorming about game ideas. In Flash, we had to type our game ideas up, and make it look good. So far, Globalorias been really fun. :)

Math Blogs

I chose these three blogs because I think they do a great job of explaining the concepts they're trying to teach.
http://grade7math.blogspot.com

http://6bdmath.blogspot.com/
http://816math.blogspot.com/