Welcome!

The time has come for you to join the Globaloria Community!  You are about to embark on a new type of class.  I hope that you enjoy this year and learn a lot of new skills along the way. 
I look forward to working with you and maybe even have some winners in the game competitions this year.

Here we go again . . .

Well the summer is officially at an end and school starts tomorrow for me.  The first few days are always the worst.  This will make the second time in the last few years that they have renumbered our rooms.  Just when I get the number memorized, they change it!  Oh well, I'm sure that there is a perfectly good reason why they did it--we just don't know what it is.

Down to the wire

I have tile on my floor--it is even waxed!  I am just waiting now for the heating/air conditioning people to finish duct work in my ceiling.  Then I have to put my room back together and set back up all of my computers.  Why can't the beginning of a new school year be less stressful!

I am looking forward to our training next week!

Time is speeding up!

This summer has gone by so quickly!  Monday is August 1 and we begin school on the 17th.  There have been a lot of changes this year--retirements, building updates and new requirements.  My room still does not have the tile on the floor.  That will probably get done sometime this coming week.  Then comes putting everything back where it belongs and getting ready to "hit the ground running".

I have enjoyed my time off and it makes me a little grumpy when everyone starts saying, "You'll be starting school soon!"  Hopefully we will get a lot of time to get our rooms ready.  After I get adjusted to the fact I have to go back, my frame of mind gets better. 

Buttons and labels

I did not make the buttons session on the 13th.  So I watched the recording today.  It was a good refresher.  There are some really simple errors that can be made that will make the whole process not work.  It was a very useful session.  I saved my file on the projects page.

Hopes for the new year

I look forward to starting a new year and learning more about game design.  One hope that I have for this year is to have some serious contenders for the games competitions.  For myself, I would like to ontinue increasing my knowledge of actionscript programming. 

Miracle on the Hudson

On June 10 we had a unique opportunity in Braxton County.  The plane that landed in the Hudson River was scheduled to be transported through West Virginia by way of I-79 to a museum in North Carolina.  I saw the story on the morning news, so I knew what was going on.  It was the last day of school, so our principal encouraged the students to go out to the side of the building facing the interstate and watch the procession go by. 

It was quite a sight to see the huge plane go by on the road.  The students waved and the truck driver tweeted back a thank you to one of our students.  I managed to get a picture.  To find out more about the original story, visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28678669/ns/us_news-life/t/ny-jet-crash-called-miracle-hudson/

Just a few days left

Well another year is almost to an end.  Looking back over the year, there are things that I would have done differently.  Now that I have actually been through a full year, I have a better idea of what I need to do.

I will be glad to have some time off.  I look forward to the training in July and August.  Before I end this year, though, I have to move my entire room so they can tear up the carpeting and replace it with floor tile.  You sure can accumulate a lot of things over the years.

Presentations are over!

We had our presentations this week.  We were on a weird schedule so we could have senior exams in the afternoon of testing.  The laptop shut off during the presentations and had to be restarted.  As a result, we did not get the last team done during that session.  We had to do their presentation the next day. 

Team Audiation had a good demo but they used a black background and white writing on some of the scenes and they did not show up well on the wiki page.  The only thing left to do is upload the videos and basic housekeeping.

In the home stretch

This is the last full week that we have seniors in class.  They are frantically working to get done.  The following link is to one of the student's project page where you can see his running character for their game.  He is a very good artist!