Friday, Feb. 5, 2010

TGIF!!!!!

Today's agenda:

1.  Read pages 31-38 of Beowulf.  This will conclude Part I.

2.  In the last blog post for the week answer the following:

-  When the first teller of Beowulf prepared to share the tale, what assumptions do you think he (or she) made about the purpose of the story?

-  How do you think the storyteller's beliefs about the intended audience--men gathered in mead halls--affect the content of the story?

-  How do you think YOUR beliefs about your video games' intended audience (you will need to determine who your audience is) will affect the development and final version of your game?  Think of age appropriateness, learning goals, types of characters, etc.

3.  Be sure to have all blogs completed.  I will be grading the blogs this weekend.  An up to date blog will have the following posts:

a.  online safety post
b.  Playing To Learn reflection post
c.  modern day hero post
d.  Beowulf as a hero post
e.  Audience post

You have this opportunity to review, edit, and revise past posts, please do so if it needs done.  I remind you that I am looking for content rich posts that display appropriate and correct standard uses of English.  Do not type like you text.

4.  I will be grading your Project Pages on Monday evening.  You should have your Playing To Learn Assignments up to date and Choosing A Topic Assignments up to date.  If you don't, you have some homework.  

Have a great weekend!!!!