Thursday 19 July 2012

Week 1: July 19

Download Final Fantasy 6 here. You need to complete the FF 6 Questions before you can move on to writing an email to one character.

Today, you will be writing an email to one of the characters you have met. You can choose a character from Final Fantasy 1, 4, or 6. Open and make a copy of the Character Email.

Wednesday 18 July 2012

Week 1: July 18

Today, I want you to finish the Creating and Practicing Dialogue document from yesterday. You can find it in your documents or drive folder in your Gmail.

After that, please download Final Fantasy 4 here. In this game, you do not choose your own characters like in Final Fantasy 1. In FF4, there is great emphasis on story and the personality of each character.

Before you start playing Final Fantasy 4, I want you to open the FF4 Questions document.

Tuesday 17 July 2012

Week 1: July 17

We still need to finish the comparison paragraph at the bottom of yesterday's Quests, Objectives, and Goals document. Please open your Google Documents/Drive folder in your Gmail to finish that paragraph. Take at least 20 minutes to write as much as you can.

Next, we will be looking at creating and practicing dialogue.

Finally, we will be doing a scavenger hunt with vocabulary from Final Fantasy.


Monday 16 July 2012

Week 1: July 16

This week, we will be talking about quests, objectives, and goals.

We will be playing Final Fantasy. You can download an emulator to play the game here. You can download the game itself here.

Sunday 8 July 2012

Week 4-1: July 9

Welcome to Week 4 of EtG.

This week, we will be playing World of Warcraft. You can sign-up for and download the starter edition, which lets you play up to level 20, by clicking here.

Before we start playing, I want to look at video games more generally. They are popular and played all over the world, and millions of hours are spent playing games each year. Researcher Jane McGonigal is a game designer who thinks we can apply our love of games to real-world problems. Watch her TED talk video here. Before you start watching the video, open up this McGonigal Google document so that you can take notes and consider a few discussions questions.

Before the end of the class, you will be making a one-minute presentation. You will need to have a main idea, one or more examples, and one or more reasons. Please ask for help you need it!