Tempest in Crescent City

      When i played this game i felt like i was in the actual game watching the girl go from house to house going into dirty water to save people.I learned that it is very hard for the people that went through hurricane Katrina and it was very shocking to watch the movie.I wish hurricane Katrina never happened because it affected a lot of people and it was terrifying to watch.This game gave me an idea of how the people reacted during this disaster.
      In the game when you have to chop holes in the roof.You have to do this in the game because in real life when the actual hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans the people were stuck in their attics and the people had to chop holes in the roof in order to save them.This is also another very tragic scene to watch when people die in their own homes.I would love to save someone in this situation but i also would hate to see them in so much pain.
      In the levels the water rises higher every time because when hurricane Katrina happened the water levels rose up each day.The game is very much like the real life situation because they made the game exactly how the real life disaster happened.Everything that happened in New Orleans has occurred in thus game.The only thing that they did not happen in this game was when the people in New Orleans had to evacuate and they went to the super dome.
      Playing this game did inspire me to learn more and i really want to research this topic for a later project or something if i could i would drive to New Orleans and give them as much food and clothing as i possibly could.This game inspired me because it was very interesting and i do not know what else i can say besides that it was a very bad situation.I want to help these people because i saw how a lot of people reacted during this event and they were all sad or crying and some adults did not even know where their kids were at or weather they were dead or alive and i want to help because if my sister got hurt or something i would do anything to help her out.

Darfur is Dying

          From playing this game I learned that Darfur is a very poor place inside of the country Sudan.They are a very ill country and they can't afford to have water in their houses like everyone else does and i personally think that is not fair.I know if they had water in their houses they would be very proud and very thankful.When the janjaweed attack they suffer from injured people to deaths.
         Their are differences in the characters because the smaller they are the faster they run but they don't fill up the bucket all the way its only like half way and the mom runs very slow but she fills up the bucket.I think the game designers made the characters have different abilities so we can see how hard it is to live their life.It tells us a lot about what is happening in real life because it is a real life situation were you have to run and go get water without getting caught by the janjaweed.
         I think in real life they do have to maintain the camp and it was not just for fun because people are actually doing this stuff rite now.If we went to Darfur we would not like it because we all drink water everyday and we would not even live a week in Darfur.
         I think they want us to share it with facebook and write letters is so we can show people how easy it is to live our lives and they have to run miles to get a bucket of water and we just go anywhere and there is water.I would like to share it with all of my friends and better yet the whole wide world.Nobody knows how its like to live their lifesexept themselves.

         This game did inspire me and if it was up to me i would like to go on a fieltrip to see how they actually live their life's.I would like to do this because it will give us and opportunity to live someone Else's life to see how hard they have to live.Here  are some links.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_is_Dying   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janjaweed

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the inventor of apple and pixar.If it wasn't for him we would not have the iPhone ,ipod ,ipod nano ,iPhone 4 ,ipad ,and so on.Today i learned that he died of cancer and he was very famous and his family must have been very rich because all of the stuff that he invented.He is an inspiration to me because he is a big part of technology.Whithout him you would not have this.---------->

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reflect

I want my game genre to be about bullying because that is the genre I did last year and to me it seemed very entertaining and it was an interesting concept to learn about.From my choice of games I learned never to give up and keep trying until you accieve.The game feature that stood out to me the most was in the game Treadsylvania because they did not stop trying to defeat the monsters and they kept going until their town was saved and I liked it because it gave clues along the way and told you what to do.Some questions I have about the game genre I want to explore is "Do a lot of people explore this game topic?Why or why not?"

least effective

I think the least effective game was house fixers 2 because when you get an answer wrong it lets you keep playing until you get it right.The game topic that this game explores is math but I don't think kids are learning from it because it  doesn't tell you what answer is correct and they don't explain it to you.In my opinion I don't think you can learn too much information because it just moves on to the next level and doesn't explain anything to you.the genre is math and I think it is a good topic for the game but then again you aren't learning as much from the game as you should be.It is not clear what you have to do because it doesn't tell you what to do on each level.I think for improvement they should add fun facts about the skills that the game is trying to teach or after every level try to explain it.

most effective

The name of the game that taught me the most i think was Ayiti: The Cost of Life .The social issue that this game teaches is survival.I think this taught me the most because it was a lesson about survival and it was challenging for most part and you had to earn money to do certain things in the game and I really liked this game.I think you can learn about survival in this game.This game does illustrate the issue or learning concept because it tells you clearly what to do and what not to do.This game does work well and it is related to real life situations.In my opinion i like the game the way it is and i think is doesn't need any improvement.If it was me i would make the game more colorful and more understanding so it can catch the kids attention.I would like to learn how people in the old time learned and how to farm and how they used transportation instead of walking for a very long distance.

Be the Change

On saturday when we helped be the change for service learning I was proud of myself but mostly my peers because I couldnt have done the work without them.For service learning I would like to go around the neighborhood and paint over graffitti that people have done.On saturday we put mulch into wheelbarrals and went to every tree in the park and made a bowl like border surrounding the tree so when it rain the mulch can hold the water around the tree.When we got to the park they told us that they planted over five hundred trees and so we made borders for five hundred trees so in my opinion we did a lot of work and im very proud of myself and they took a lot of pictures while we were doing work.To me personally I think the adults were proud of us too and the whole community was very thankful that we did that for their trees.I think we should do that to one of our parks someday.