Playing to Learn, Genre:Action

Actions games are games that involve trouble.It could be violent.It could have heroes and villains.It could have problem that we struggle with.For example,bullying,poverty,divorce and etc.But I like action game.

1. Game that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:Zeitgeist wouldn't work.It had an error.
So I went to play another game called Trapcat.It is a game that you have to trap feral (wild)cats.Is kind a boring but it is important that the homeless animal need a home.
2. Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:True that!!The Trapcat game had a social issue here in Austin Texas:)Here in Austin we have a lot of homeless animals.These animals need a home to stay and a owner for love.It had taught me that every animal needs a home:)


3. Game I liked best:Ha ha!!When I got to explode the cats!!Also the people in front of me!!Funny!! 


4. What happens in the game:You click in the cat and it'll disappears!!


5. How you play the game: EASY!!You just need to spot a cat,then when you see a hobo cat you click the cat and it'll disappear!!

Gamers Solve Scientific Problems

How did gamers use the computer gameFoldit to solve the protein folding mystery? The gamers used the computer game Foldit to solve the protein folding mystery by producing the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral.

Who can participate in this problem solving and be a player in Foldit?
Gamers with no back round on biochemistry.
What can critical thinking do for science?
Trying to find cure for the AIDS.
If you could solve a mystery through gaming for any kind of disease or illness in the world, what would it be? 
If I try to make a cure game for a disease,it'll be scoliosis.Scoliosis is a very common disease on teenagers.This disease is very serious,scientist haven't found a cure for this disease!!:,(


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoliosis


A link to Wikipedia of Scoliosis.You'll find more of this disease.

Mini game

Was it hard to make your mini game? It was hard and easy because I had a lot of errors on my game.I didn't get it so I asked help.
What was the best part of this topic?   The best part of this game was that I got to refresh my mind because I forgot what I learned last year!!
The worst part? The worst part was that I had a lot of errors on my game.It was hard.I got confused!!:D

9/11/01

Gosh,is really sad what we heard.Some terrorist attacked New York and the Pentagon.
How old were you on September 11, 2001?
I was three years old when that happened.
When did you first learn about the attacks and who explained the events to you?
My mom I guess told me what happened,I didn't get it so I kept asking her until I got it.
What kind of impact did these attacks have on your life or your parents lives?
I don't know,be more secure when people are going to attack U.S.A,but Osama Bin Landen is dead already.What was the issue with this game?
The twin towers got attacked 
How do you feel about it?
I feel bad for the people in the Twin Towers,they have to die:(
What is the problem with portraying on such an awful violent event through a video game?
The dead people in there,blood I guess.
How can you make sure that your web games tell the whole story or teach a lesson in an 
honorable way?
We can make a game honoring the Twin Towers,have the people who saved us.

2 Single Story 2011

                         "Danger of a Single Story"

A woman named ChimamandaAdichie. 

1. What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community?To have a single story is to have a story of your culture I guess.
2. Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?I heard East Austin community have difficulties,but we,my families have no difficult,we live happy.Also people asks me if I am Mexican just because of my accent.
3. Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?I never heard some stories.
4. How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?Not to be racist,or to do stereotype.

1 Cyberbullying 2011

This is my first blog post of the 2011-2012 school.We are talking about cyberbullying,cyberbullying is the biggest problems we have right now.What is a cyberbully?A cyberbully is any kind of person,boy or girl,young or old they can still bully you or any kind of person.What are the different types of cyberbullying?
We watched a movie about cyberbullying and a girl named Taylor got a new laptop and got a Clicksters account and one day someone got into her account and changed her profile and that someone was her brother Eric and people began to write bad stuff about her and Lindsey was her bully.Taylor's friends didn't do anything to defend her.When Taylor got into Clickster the first time a guy named James I forgot his last name sended a friend request to Taylor and she accepted.Soon she found out that James was fake.

Schlitterbahn

I am going to Shlitterbahn!!!Oh My Gosh!!So exited because this is my first time ever!!My brother and sister are going to be jelouse.I can't wait to get wet!!

I look the pictures and it looks exiting!!
Cool!!
Hey This isn't bad!!:)
Yah!!
I put other pictures other than Shlitterbahn because I was bored.