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Benjamin Franklin: The Great Mysteries of Ben
My 1st quarter benchmark was a new and fun experience to create. For my project, I decide to research Benjamin Franklin and how he is portrayed in the media, schools, textbooks, etc. vs. the person he really was or the person he could have been, hence, "The Great Mysteries of Ben." This project is an interactive videogame created by a program called Alice.
In order to view my project, you must download Alice 2.2 for Mac. In order to do this, go here:
http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/download_alice2.2
And click on: Alice 2.2 for Mac with Learning to Program with Alice textbook worlds (410MB)
Once you download Alice 2.2, open it in your downloads and click on the .dmg file located in your downloads or on the bottom of your browser for the first time download.
*Next, open your finder and you will see Alice as a device that is ejectable. Click on the Alice device and then open Alice from the window that pops up in the finder window. The file that contains my project is NOT accessible from this blog. Go here to download my file. I apologize, my efforts and hard work made this file extremely large. It may take a while to download (approx. 5min).
Once downloaded, in Alice, go to file and scroll down to open and select the file labeled: FranklinMystery.a2w
Finally, press play (upper lefthand corner) on the Alice program with my file opened. This will create a screen in which you will start out with text and a robot (you have third person point of view.
*NOTE: DO NOT ALTER ANY OF THE PROGRAMMING BARS. IT WILL CHANGE THE GAMEPLAY.
Here is the rundown of the game:
Franklin's Great Mysteries is an interactive world in which you can click on object to interact with them. Most objects in the world will act after being clicked and some are just for decoration. As for the controls, you can only look around and move using the cursor keys (it's very straightforward). So use the cursor keys to move around and you can move the camera's view up and down by using "W" to move the camera up and "S" to move the camera down. However, there is aren't any objects completely out of the original view you are given. In other words, if you can't see something because it is too high or too low, change the camera view. You can bring the camera back to it's original view by pressing the up or down - W or S key - in opposition of the key you pressed before.
The objective of the game is to find out what you can about Franklin. Most objects will generate a script for you to read. Please take the time to read them (they are the purpose of the game). You can click on things to read the script again if you missed it the first time around. You can also press the "pause" button in the middle of a script if you want to spend more time reading (just press resume to continue). There is also a speed adjustor in the window of the game. If you accidentally click on something twice and don't want to read it again, you can turn the speed up to 10x in order to fast forward the messages. REMEMBER TO TURN THE SPEED BACK DOWN TO 1x BEFORE CONTINUING. That just about sums up how to work the world. A few things to consider about the game:
You can walk through objects and walls without getting stuck, that's just the way Alice is. Please try not to fool around with the environment and treat it as if it were physical unless of course you are trying to get a better point of view. It took over 18 hours to create and polish it in one day and many hours over the course of a week or so.
Here is my bibliography. All images and information are taken from a variety of sources.
In order to view my project, you must download Alice 2.2 for Mac. In order to do this, go here:
http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/download_alice2.2
And click on: Alice 2.2 for Mac with Learning to Program with Alice textbook worlds (410MB)
Once you download Alice 2.2, open it in your downloads and click on the .dmg file located in your downloads or on the bottom of your browser for the first time download.
*Next, open your finder and you will see Alice as a device that is ejectable. Click on the Alice device and then open Alice from the window that pops up in the finder window. The file that contains my project is NOT accessible from this blog. Go here to download my file. I apologize, my efforts and hard work made this file extremely large. It may take a while to download (approx. 5min).
Once downloaded, in Alice, go to file and scroll down to open and select the file labeled: FranklinMystery.a2w
Finally, press play (upper lefthand corner) on the Alice program with my file opened. This will create a screen in which you will start out with text and a robot (you have third person point of view.
*NOTE: DO NOT ALTER ANY OF THE PROGRAMMING BARS. IT WILL CHANGE THE GAMEPLAY.
Here is the rundown of the game:
Franklin's Great Mysteries is an interactive world in which you can click on object to interact with them. Most objects in the world will act after being clicked and some are just for decoration. As for the controls, you can only look around and move using the cursor keys (it's very straightforward). So use the cursor keys to move around and you can move the camera's view up and down by using "W" to move the camera up and "S" to move the camera down. However, there is aren't any objects completely out of the original view you are given. In other words, if you can't see something because it is too high or too low, change the camera view. You can bring the camera back to it's original view by pressing the up or down - W or S key - in opposition of the key you pressed before.
The objective of the game is to find out what you can about Franklin. Most objects will generate a script for you to read. Please take the time to read them (they are the purpose of the game). You can click on things to read the script again if you missed it the first time around. You can also press the "pause" button in the middle of a script if you want to spend more time reading (just press resume to continue). There is also a speed adjustor in the window of the game. If you accidentally click on something twice and don't want to read it again, you can turn the speed up to 10x in order to fast forward the messages. REMEMBER TO TURN THE SPEED BACK DOWN TO 1x BEFORE CONTINUING. That just about sums up how to work the world. A few things to consider about the game:
You can walk through objects and walls without getting stuck, that's just the way Alice is. Please try not to fool around with the environment and treat it as if it were physical unless of course you are trying to get a better point of view. It took over 18 hours to create and polish it in one day and many hours over the course of a week or so.
Here is my bibliography. All images and information are taken from a variety of sources.
The Black Panther Party: More Than Just A Movement
Walter Disney: The Truth Behind the Magic
By Natalie Sanchez
Link to Website.
Everyone has seen a Disney movie at least once in their lives. The movies "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bambi" opened a portal to a magical world far beyond the reality in which we lived. Princess dresses and tiaras were out of stock in children department stores and girls everywhere would dream of living in a castle one day. This was the footprint that Walter Disney left on my generation's childhood memories- these were the dreams that stemmed from Disney productions. For my first quarter English benchmark, I have chosen to create a website about Walter Disney, the master behind the magic.
Link to Website.
Everyone has seen a Disney movie at least once in their lives. The movies "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bambi" opened a portal to a magical world far beyond the reality in which we lived. Princess dresses and tiaras were out of stock in children department stores and girls everywhere would dream of living in a castle one day. This was the footprint that Walter Disney left on my generation's childhood memories- these were the dreams that stemmed from Disney productions. For my first quarter English benchmark, I have chosen to create a website about Walter Disney, the master behind the magic.
Vietnam War: The Truth (Anwar, TJ)
Our Vietnam War Prezi Presentation:
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Thinking in the audience who will be seeing my project, I believed that the best way would be a presentation. But then, when I was looking the resources I thought that I should let the articles speaking by themselves. All this led me to think in make a newspaper library, but that is to boring for teen years. Finally I considered in mixing these two ideas and made an interactive newspaper library, in this presentation the people could see videos with short explanations and can made your own conclusions.
Quakers 1644
I have a personal connection to the roots of Quakerism because my family "converted" when I was in 1st grade because I was attending a Quaker school and would ask my parents, of my own volition, if we could go to meeting for worship. What shocked me when I went to public school in 5th grade was how surprised people were when I told them I was Quaker. Then we would open our text books and read about George Fox and William Penn and the Native Americans and the idea of Quakerism would fade into colonial America. Well, I clearly used electricity, much to many people's shock, and I did not use the words "thee" or "thou" so I began to realize that there was some sort of miscommunication going on with these kids that they could assume something was dead and also a certain way because a text book only mentioned it once. My goal was to shed new light on aspects of Quakerism that are often overlooked as well as making it clear that Quakerism as still as much of a religion as any other that was present during Colonial America.
I used the form of a podcast because I know that I learned best when I am spoken to and also am best at relaying information verbally. With those qualifications understood I created a skeleton of a script and then spoke as though I were presenting to a class. I find this to be the most helpful way to hear new information because inflection and interest does not sound dialouged but engaged and loose.
http://soundcloud.com/emmahohen/quakers-1644/s-nOrdu
"Left By The Ship"
My educational resource is a curriculum that provides guideline for lesson on the topic about the impacts of US's war and military's presence on other country. It examines the missing narratives of this topic. The curriculum was developed around the documentary called "Left By The Ship", which described the experiences of Filipino Amerasian Children in Angeles City where the former US's Subic Naval Base once located. These children were "Left By The Ship" when the Naval Base inactivated. Typically, war and military forces are viewed as destructive, which became the scapegoat for economic lost and human casualty, rather than the results of a dehumanizing structure. But more importantly, the conversations about the impacts of wars and military forces are usually left out those who born as Bui Doi [Vietnamese term means Children from the ashes], and who have to live their lives being seen as a mistake.
Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
I selected a character from Venezuela. In the beginning I was worry in how I could present this project because through my experience living in the country I have my own judgments so I want to be fair, but at the same time show the thing exactly like happens being faithful with the true.
Why I write
Writing is my passion
I love the frenzy of a flash of words
igniting a page in a fire of feelings
blank paper with arms outstretched
welcome me
to tickle its spine with lines of my poetry
I am enchanted by dancing pencils and pens
that unleash thunderous words
that snap crackle and pop
on eyes once read
Its more than a hobby
its a passion that I hold close and dear to my heart
and I believe with this gift
I can change the world
All I have to do is perfect my art
So I'll just take it one day at a time
slowly release my restrictions, inhibitions and doubts that cloud my mind
as I write to promote growth
find my writer's voice and let it show
