Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Exit Interview



Exit Interview

COPY and PASTE these QUESTIONS into YOUR post 
then answer them.


Which assignments did you enjoy and why?

Which assignments did you struggle with and why?

Sum up your IT experience 
     ... What did you learn?
     ... What should you have done to do better?


If you were to take IT in the future, what would you like to explore?



....   if you already have not done so...please fill out the survey about Aldergrove ...

A survey about your town.

Please click the link below.

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Minecraft -Slideshows -movies

1. Create slideshows using Minecraft to create the images

1. your best 20 screenshots
YES - the whole scene

2. your best 30 screenshots

3. your best 40 screenshots


  • Take screenshots in Minecraft using F2
  • move them to a new folder in OneDrive
  • add your URL to each

go to PowerPoint - Choose Insert -Photo Album
  • find your folder then select all the images you want
  • 1 per page -fit to slide
  • add captions using Insert - wordart
  • (describe each image and changes)
  • save your PowerPoint in the OneDrive folder
Use Chrome -go to Google Slides
  • choose blank -then -File -open -Upload -find your powerpoint file
  • Make changes if necessary
  • Choose File - Publish to the Web
  • choose the Embed tab
  • Slide size - small - Auto-Advance Slides - every 2 seconds
  • Check box both -start and restart
  • select Publish
  • copy the code -paste into the HTML section of blog post

2. Create a VIDEO walk through (10-20 seconds)
basically to show off interiors and all exterior sides
  • Add Title, Captions and URL(credits) using Movie Maker
  • remember to save for Email





Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Animate CC -MASKING -Rippling Water Effect

Animate CC -MASKING -Rippling Water Effect

POST

  1. a screen shot of your project from within ANIMATE CC
  2. an animate GIF
  3. an embedded SWF file using a link from your DROPBOX

The THIRD in the series - YOUTUBE TUTORIAL



Button Actions Code: - remember to name the button!         startButton

stop();

function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
{
play();
}

startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);



Embed code

<embed src="paste dropbox link between quotes" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="300" width="300"></embed>
...

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Animate CC -Masking -Lighting Effect

Animate CC -Masking -Lighting Effect

POST

  1. a screen shot of your project from within ANIMATE CC
  2. an animate GIF
  3. an embedded SWF file using a link from your DROPBOX
PROJECTS
1. lighting effect
2. 3 lighting effects
3  combine lighting effect with basic masking assignment

masking Tutorial


Here is the CODE for the startButton: Paste this on the ACTIONS layer. First make the Actions layer - then press F9 - paste the code -  Your button's INSTANCE name needs to be: startButton

stop();

function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
{
play();
}

startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);



Screen shot from Animate CC
Animate GIF shows Light effect - button does not work





Here is the CODE for embedding a SWF file from inside DROPBOX

to Post the shockwave flash movie

Upload the SWF file to Dropbox
Copy the share link
Go to the HTML section of your post
copy the following code then replace the SCR="" with your link

replace the "www" in your link with "dl"
also remove the s from https://
also delete everything after the .swf                                 

copy the following code  - then make the changes above:


<embed src="paste dropbox link between quotes" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="300" width="300"></embed>








B Block




3 light effects + sound










Lighting effect combined with Basic masking





Animate -Masking -BASIC

FLASH - Masking Techniques -Start with the BASIC masking tutorial

POST

  1. a screen shot of your project from within ANIMATE CC
  2. an animate GIF
  3. an embedded SWF file using a link from your DROPBOX
Do the tutorial then another to show your skill and a third with 2 scenes and sound effects.
The following tutorial constitutes 3 separate ANIMATE projects =  separate SWF posts

masking Tutorial


Here is the CODE for the startButton: Paste this on the ACTIONS layer. First make the Actions layer - then press F9 - paste the code -  Your button's INSTANCE name needs to be: startButton

stop();

function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
{
play();
}

startButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);


this could be helpful to stop sounds from going on and on...

Animate CC stop all sound

SoundMixer.stopAll();



1 . Basic Mask

A screen shot from ANIMATE CC

Exported as an ANIMATED GIF - here the MASK does NOT work

Below is an embedded SWF file
the MASK and button function





Here is the CODE for embedding a SWF file from inside DROPBOX

to Post the shockwave flash movie

Upload the SWF file to Dropbox
Copy the share link
Go to the HTML section of your post
copy the following code then replace the SCR="" with your link

replace the "www" in your link with "dl"
also remove the s from https://
also delete everything after the .swf                                 

copy the following code  - then make the changes above:


<embed src="paste dropbox link between quotes" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="300" width="300"></embed>



2 interacting masks - 'image' is the same






Multiple object in mask
animated gif

Monday, 7 May 2018

Game Journalism Day 5 - WALK THROUGH

Game Journalism Day 5

Walk Through and Game Guide



1. Explain how to play this game.



2. -- start over -- Create a series of screenshots showing how far you can get in 1 hour (of class time).

Add screen shots of key land marks.

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Game Journalism Day 4 - FAIL

Game Journalism Day 4


Video Day

videos

Wolf - Bear - Fire - Fall - Thirst - Hunger - Hypothermia -Drowning  - infection (animal bite) - Dysentery (dirty water)

Challenge FAILED


Video all the ways to FAIL the challenge.


fail by WOLF


fail by FALL


fail by HYPOTHERMIA


fail by FIRE


fail by BEAR



Load the fraps movie into WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER
cut out the erroneous parts
add a title
add URL and your name as credits
.... save movie - for EMAIL


Friday, 27 April 2018

Game Journalism Day 3 - TACKLE

Game Journalism Day 3


Question 1: How many days to do you have to complete the challenge?

SHOW your VIEWERS how TO...do SOMETHING 'useful'

Task 1:

What does it take to make fishing tackle?

screen shots

Make some fishing tackle.

screen shots

Go to an ice fishing hut and fish


screen shot


ice fishing hole


Question 2: What did you do today?

Outline the steps you took to make fishing tackle and to go fishing
Where did you go and how did you survive to complete the task? 
Details are important. Screen shots help too.

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Game Journalism Day 2 - SURVIVE


Game Journalism Day 2


Question 1: What is the challenge?

write it out... 
Screen shot: water (potable)



Screen shot 3 SHELTERS: Hunter's Blind or another shelter other than the main cabin

hunter's blind
ice fishing hut

lodge on lake





Screen Shot: corpse



Question 2: What did you do today?

Outline the steps you took to survive.
Where did you go and what did you accomplish? Details are important. Screen shots help too... minimum 2.

Question 3: What is the charcoal for?

Question 4: What survival tip do you have?  (Tips and tricks)

Friday, 20 April 2018

Game Journalism Day 1 -BEGIN


GJ Day 1

As a game journalist you have the task of exploring new games.  Your goal is to inform your audience on your blog. On this day you have heard of a new game and nothing else - so you play it.
Take screenshots - Print screen or FRAPS - always add your URL.

ON your blog:

Title:  Game Journalism Day 1 -BEGIN

Choose: Challenges - Hopeless Rescue




Question 1: What is the challenge?


ScreenShot 1: Show what is in your backpack with a screen shot.

(everyone's is different)


ScreenShot 2: Place your snare and screen shot it


ScreenShot 3: Start the wood stove and screen shot it


Question 2: What did you do today?

Details are important. MIN. 2 Screen shots.

Questions 3: What do the different keys do for you?





Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Algodoo


Algodoo




 Algodoo is free

FIRST - Do the Tutorials /2 marks


Crash Course /22

Tools /27

Sketch tool /25

Show me then POST a screen shot showing completion


Rules for handing in the following challenges:

Show your teacher that your solution works.

You get 3 successive tries:

Complete 3 Successfully = 4/4 marks

Fail 1of 3 trial runs =  3 /4 marks

Fail 2of 3 attempts = 2/4 marks

Fail 3 runs and a rebuild will be requested.


* Screen shot the beginning, middle and ending scene.
add your blog address to each

Always leave your scene at the beginning and ready to go.
Create an Algodoo folder in dropbox or Onedrive
Place your solution in DropBox or Onedrive and link it to your blog. 

Choose 5 of the first 9 then 10
 NO THYME, NO HOVERING, NO THRUSTERS

Deliver the Goods
FILE  Advanced
Desert Gap
FILE
ACID challenge
FILE
Landslide
FILE Advanced
Bus child to school
LINK
Marble Machine
LINK
Junkyard Wars
LINK
Loch Ness
LINK
Save the planet
LINK

  
#10 Your Own Challenge

 Deliver the Goods


You build a bridge out of boards. I give you a board – clone it. You’re allowed 15 of them.  Start by connecting to the grey blocks on the canyon walls. ONLY use AXLES! The truck must make it complete and completely to the other side. Two boards together may only have 1 axle.


Desert Gap


Build a vehicle in the box. Drive it over the gap. It may only flip once.

Do not change the scene. Only use axle power. Everything you create in the box must cross the gap. NO MAGIC. Your car must look like a QUINCE.



ACID challenge


Build pipes then attach propellers and gears. The acid must flow efficiently from one vessel to the next.  Try to capture lost fluid or add more or else you may run dry. Do not cut holes in the vessels.

 Landslide


Save the town. Only build in the boxes. Do not fixate to the scene. Everyone must survive. If the fall over - even slightly - they have not survived.


Bring the children to school


Must fit inside the box
NO THYME, NO HOVERING, NO THRUSTERS
Only Use: Wood, Steel, Glass and Rubber
Children may not break bones

Children may only be stuck to their seats using 1 fixate on their orange body.
Driver Must Be included, and has to hold onto a steering wheel


Marble Machine

Build a machine to move the marbles. The parts you add - the ball must touch.



Junkyard Wars


Build vehicle from the junk pile.  Drive it to the end.

Your vehicle looks like a BMW 507



  

Loch Ness





Build a paddle wheel boat and cross the Loch. No jets.

Save the planet

   



You have to capture it, push its off collision course or send it back into orbit.

Rules:

-build inside the red line

-No Killers

-No Immortal

-No attraction

-No attaching to background in any way

-No attaching to earth in anyway

-No stealing ideas

-No editing the scene

-No gravity binding or anything to do with gravity.

-No scripting

-No collision G (it’s used to scene)


If you destroy Earth - 0

If you destroy Moon– 2/4

If you catch the Moon - 3/4

Send the moon back into a stable orbit - 4/4






#10 Your Own Challenge
  
Solve your Challenge. Write the rules. Develop the Template
Screenshot the template – screenshot the solution
Post the template and solution links from your dropbox
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Exit Interview

Exit Interview COPY and PASTE these QUESTIONS into YOUR post  then answer them. Which assignments did you enjoy and why? Which...