March 31, 2010 Blog Prompt

This week I took a look at the Team Tigers from SRMS. Their paperprototype looks very creative. It will be difficult to complete as planned, but I have the up-most confidence in their ability. The game isn't completed. It is a demo so I'll give them that. With some more work, this game will look great. Keep up the good work.

Function 3/25/10

Select one team game or game idea in your knowledge community that you feel will do an effective job teaching players about civic function. List the selected team's school, name and game title. Describe specifically what the game aims to teach and why its design plan or game demo succeeds in achieving this aim. Please write a minimum of 4 sentences.
Greenbrier East High School,The Cheese Wizards, the three branches game helps understand the billing process within the government. Their first question shows the way a bill is processed. The second question does a good job of showing how a bill gets passed by a majority vote.

March 19 Weekly blog

This week we looked at this STEM game competition. I guess we aren't allowed to do it because we are doing the Globaloria competition. Other than that we worked on some of our games and our individual games. Not a bad week.

March 18, 2010 Function Prompt

In our game demo, you will find a mini game that has books flying at a picture of Hitler. This is showing the freedoms he took away from the people in Europe. We worked together in finding the information for the freedoms and we thought of it together due to the question before it. It has to deal with Hitler's type of government and freedoms of the people.

3/8/10-3/12/10

This week has been pretty okay. We have finished our games for the most part and they look great. We have had some help from Globaloria. They told us some things that we could do to make it better. Thanks for your time!

Function Assignment

What are the different duties of the Presidential cabinet (specifically, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General)? How are these people appointed, and what influence does the voting public have over them?
The Secretary of State appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The Secretary of the Treasury appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The Secretary of Defense is appointed the President with the approval of the Senate. Also, they are member of the Cabinet.
The Attorney General is appointed the Central People's Government in on the advice of the Chief Executive.
The public have a huge influence on how and who is elected. They are allowed to vote for who they believe is the best for the job.