Class 28: Best Game Designer

Hello all, as you already know, today is the Game Day! After two weeks' hard work on the PowerPoint game projects, now it is time for us to enjoy the game and share with others!
Please come to the class a little bit earlier to have your game set up on the computer.

You should have already selected one person from your group before class. There will be five group game presenters in total, so each person will have 9 minutes to present.

Some hints to organize your presentation can be:
1. introduce your group members;
2. introduce your focused subject area, grade level, and the educational objectives of your game;
3. introduce the story of your game ;
4. tell us how your students will play it. Is there any incentives or rewarding strategies to engage your students? Do you think your game is fun to play? Why do you think it is fun?
5. Do you think your game is age appropriate?
6. what types of questions in this game did you write? Why do you think should these questions be written in this way? Why do you think will these questions inspire and help your student to learn?
7. In what situation do you think is the best for this game to be used? Should it be used before introducing a new concept/content or should it be used after a learning session? Or in what else situation should it be used?
8. Do you think if this game can be changed to fit into another teaching topic? If yes, then how?
9. What else features／strong points do you think does your game have?

During their presentations, the rest of the class will judge the quality of their games according to the score chart that I will distribute in the class. After all the five presentations, you need to vote for the "Best Game Creator". You all will use the evaluation sheet to help you to decide who is the best Game designer.

On Friday, we will start talking about iMovie project. We will use some pictures and video clips to practice some basic skills of using iMovie. You can also bring your own video clips and pictures.

Note: if you decide to bring your own video clips, you need to check if the file formats of your video clips are compatible with iMovie. According to the web document on Apple.com, files with the .wmv or .avi extension may require a third-party plug-in or application to be viewed or converted to another format, although .avi file can be imported to the iMovie on my MacBook.

Try also playing the footage in QuickTime Player to confirm that you have both audio and video. Remember also that MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formatted footage is not supported in iMovie or iDVD.

For more information about the video format compatibility of iMovie, please check here.