I have not made the progress that I would like to see on creating games and adding them to my website. Most places I have used so far would require my students to go to that website to play the game. I am starting to look into software that I can purchase to create games and place them on my website. My students are using my website more to keep updated on information from the class and also to review the notes from the class each day. The parents are using the website more frequently to keep up with the Standards that are being taught as well as the assignments that are due. The parents like the fact that they can find the rubric on the website for projects that are due.
The students are eager to work on the digital video and are starting work on the script and discussing how to illustrate the grammar concepts and the vocabulary in the best way. They are discussing what are the best places in the school to videotape and if there will be a need for costumes. We are working with moviemaker to learn how to edit when we do create the video.
I feel that I am closer to success on my goal with the website than I am with the video. The students are eager but access to technology is sometimes difficult at school.
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I have been looking into creating games myself, and too have had no luck. I have looked into GameMaker, which has potential, but only as a windows game maker. It is good for a 3D RPG game, but I struggled with making different places and coming up with a good plot line. Sandbox is similar, and works in an easier format supposedly.
ReplyDeleteI have also made simple review games using classtools.net, which are simple review games where you can add definitions into a list and the students have to shoot a cannonball onto a platform or other games with a similar idea.
Hope this helps, and good luck with the game making.
Don't give up! Just because you are not the progress you want it still looks like you are still making progress. It sounds like you are making progress and that is a good thing for you. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Craig. Don't give up! You are making steady progress toward your goal.
ReplyDeleteIn adding to what Craig said, I will quote Thomas Edison. "I did not fail 10,000 times to create a lightbulb...I found 10,000 ways to NOT make a lightbulb." You are making progress.
ReplyDeleteWhen your students discuss locations for videotaping at school, remind them to think of outside locations and, depending on their ability to take the camera away from school, locations around town or out in the countryside.