Winding Down

Our team name is J-Force and our game title is Critical Condtion: A Livin' Atomic Bomb and it's about dealing with three different social issues, oil spills, erosion, and factories. We have completed all scenes of the game and have put them all together to work on the animations. Our Wiki Updater has finished answering the questions about our game on our team page. We are done with the game now and we hope it turns out a success. I think our team has done a great job and we got a lot done and I'm sure we can get an A. This year I learned how to use animations, something we didn't do last year, I also learned about the problems in this world and why we worry so much about them. I am proud that Globaloria has teached us how to work in Flash instead of just doing boring stuff like in other middle schools. I hope next year I can learn how to make our game not so boring and more challenging because it was very hard for all of us in J-Force to program the game well.

Juan Z. 13 2011

icivics.org This website teaches kids about civics because many kids don't know anything about this and it's very important. To get kids into civics they have very fun games that kids love so that they get interested into civics I liked this one game where you had to spread the awareness of stopping bullying

Juan Z 11 2011

Yesterday Nintendo launched the new Nintendo 3DS here in North America. It looks pretty much like any other Nintendo DS but what's so special is that it now comes with 3D images with no special glasses needed. The Nintendo 3DS also has a built-in 3D Depth Slider which allows you to adjust the intensity of the 3d settings to your likings. If you don't want 3D you can just turn it off. It also includes a Motion Sensor and Gyron Sensor which makes the Nintendo 3DS to respond to the motion of the player, whether the player's twisting it or jumping up and down. It also has other things such as, an analog control, a 3D camera, an Adjustable Stylus and other things too. According to the Nintendo website it is close to around $250.

Juan Z. 10 2011

When I finish my game in this class I would do the same thing as Mike Tyson. How else could I get it to be popular, who would buy it? I should try to sell it because I'll make good money and I'm able to get the word out to stop Water Pollution. I wouldn't attach a celebrity to my game because it's about Social Issues and celebrities don't care about that, just money.

Juan Z. 9 2011

Disaster in Japan

I'm glad that these students are doing something to help out in Japan. This is a good way to learn how to not be selfish and help others when they need it. I wish that we could do the same thing. Everywhere I hear that you should donate to the American Red Cross and all of this stuff, I see images of destroyed houses and it makes me feel guilty that I'm not helping out. But it's not all my fault, I don't have any money so there's pretty much nothing I can do, if there was I'd do it. Well, at least thery're getting something and the United States is also doing good by doing everything they can to help out. I'm thinking that we should do the same thing we did last year with Haiti and now raise money from Japan. And just so you can donate to Japan I'm going to show this image of this huge devastation.

Juan Z. 8 2011

PlayStation Portable: Next Generation Portable

The new PSP looks way better. I would love to buy one. I have go to admit that the PSP NGP is even better than the PSP Go. The NGP is now a touch screen, it has a pad on the back which is to make motion, it has internet 3G, GPS, and a camera and many other new characteristics. I see that it does more things than the regular PSP and I would totally buy one. Can anyone loan me $300?






Image from: gamingbolt.com

Juan Z 7 2011

Mad Hot Ballroom

Teamwork is when you have more than one person in a group and they connect their ideas to make something useful, because there is no mind that is greater than all of them together.

This documentary takes place in New York City in the year, 1994. It's aout a ballroom dance program for 5th graders. Now 6,000 kids in New York City are required to take this 10-week course. The schools that they focus on are P.S. 112, P.S. 150, and P.S. 115.

How do you see these students trying to work together?

They dance with each other to help each other out for people who probably don't know how to dance.

How important was teamwork for these students?

It's very important for them because they know that they need to work well as a team in order to succeed.

Juan Z 6 2011

I liked the game called Jet Ski Addition. The game play is to play online and race against other people who are online. The way to beat them is by answering the questions right and that's how you accelerate. I think the goal of this game is to teach kids math and the could get better at it.

Juan Z 4 2011

The Wizard


At the beginning of the movie, Jimmy is walking down the highway. Where is he going?
He is going to "California".

What is the problem that the little boy, Jimmy, has?
He is heavily traumatized, and very shy.

Jimmy likes to stack and build things. How does this relate to video games?
The blocks he plays with look like in video games, with a lot of walls, and 2 dimensional.

Playing video games seems to help Jimmy feel better. Why do you think this is?
He is very sad because his sister is done, I guess that playing video games helps forget about it.

What makes him such an awesome video game player?
He doesn't pay attention to anybody so he doesn't get distracted.

What kinds of games do you see being played? Have you ever played any games like this before? He is playing Street Fighter, Double Dragon, Ninja Gideon, Mario II, F1 Dream, Rad Racer, Rampage, Mr. Chaos, Super Mario Bros. 3


How many different game systems do you see in the film?
Arcade, Nintendo OES

What did you think about the Power Glove?
I really like the Power Glove because whatever you do the character does.

Juan Z 2 2011

This game is unbelievable! I can't believe Technology has advanced in such a little bit of time! It looks awesome and I really want to play it. I think it could be a good idea to put it in our game but I can never find out how. The reason why I think it's cool is because there's no buttons and now directions the only tool you have is your brain/imagination.

Juan Z. 1 2011

Google Science Fair!!

I think it's a good idea that Google hosts a science fair so that the world could get more useful inventions. An invention is not going to fall out of the sky you need someone to plan it and introduce it to the world. I don't se myself entering this contest because I can never think of anything and even if I did I don't think I would know how. If I could I would want to invent either a flying car or a car that drives itself but it turns out that people are working on those. And as I said I can't really think of anything that's why I don't think I enter it. I'm just happy that Google organized this science fair and I can't wait to see what the people come up with but I just hope its useful.

Epic Mickey

I think that this game would be hard to make because of all the effects it has. But even though it's hard work it would be worth it because a game like that, with a lot of magic, special effects, it will draw in a lot of money. It has really good graphics it's not hard to see it clearly.

Source:bscreview.com

Juan Z 13 2010

"Strange Days on Planet Earth"

In this confusing era only on thin thing is certain, that we are living very strange days

plants and animals are n places that they don't belong

they're spreading disease, they are destroying our landmasses and each year it gets worse.

A lot of us are fueling traffic unwillingly every day and we're introducing new aliens.

Alien - something that is somewhere where it doesn't belong

Homeowners have lost their property because of a huge pack of animals

Insects are small but when they are in a group they can become a massive force.

The city of New Orleans is filled with termites and New Orleans is even made out of termite food, many people have already complained about it but there is nothing that they can do.

Termites are not only in New Orleans they can be anywhere.

At least 7,000 species are in motion at any given time. Which means they can be moving to a different ocean any different environment.

Big animal sometimes transported smaller animals or seeds.

Many scientists believe that if all continents unite there can be a lot less species because we won't be able to support them as much as we can with seven separated continents.

We have raised the temperature one degree more in the last century

60,00 species have vanished.

Twice a year caribou migrate through the porcupine river and when they get to the village all the people get excited.

The climate is changing so fast that the elders are worrying that the species will not adapt quick enough because these elders are not use to this now climate change is occurring very quickly.

The animals go to the top of the hill now they don't get bit by the mosquitoes.

Team Members and Topic

J-Force

Team Members:

Juan Z.

Jonathan H.

Jonathan R.

Jacinto C.

Topic - Our Topic is Global Warming because it's a very important issue in our world and it's always all over the news. Our goal is to encourage people to start caring for the world and stop causing Global Warming. The Aztec Calendar says that the world will end on 12.21.12, and if we don't get the word out there to care for the environment, it will. We hope that this will encourage more people to do this.

Juan Z 12 2010

Temperatures have never been so hot

Global Warming causes very strong storms because it causes more water to evaporate

Anything that is man-made is derived from oil, basically we use oil everyday!

People in Nigeria are dying because of the corrupt government in their country.

There are oils rigs in Nigeria and it pollutes their drinking water.

Shell was going to build a medical center in Nigeria and they have not finished because they're "worried about kidnapping".

The oil spills there kill fish so the oil pollutes the water which they now can't drink and it kills the fish so now they can't eat.

Oil has become the main source worth fighting for.

Why did the USA go to war with Iraq? O-i-l

People protested against the windmill farms because it ruins their view and they don't like the way they look.

Oil companies think that they are doing well to care for the environment.

People in France made a team to say NO to trucks and stop all this pointless transportation.

Juan Z 11 2010

My topic is on Global Warming and here are some links that I thought could help me.

1.) Global Warming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

2.) Greenhouse Gas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas

3.) Climate Change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

These all will give you information about my topic for Global Warming.

Juan Z. 10 2010

Source 1

Cooler Heads Coalition http://www.globalwarming.org/ ©2010
Found on 10/11/10


Source 2

Global Warming
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html
©2010
Found on 10/11/10


Source 3

Climate Change
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
Last updated on October 1, 2010
Date found: 10/11/10


Source 4

Global Warming
http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming.aspx
©1996-2010
Date found: 10/11/10

Juan Z. 9 2010

How to Properly Cite Internet Resources

Use the format below to add Internet resources to a bibliography.

Author. Title of Website. Web address or URL. Copyright date. Date you found the information.

Example:

Previous FIFA World Cups.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/index.html

Copyright: 1994-2010

Found October 7, 2010

Juan Z. 1 2010

Source: http://www.nasa.gov

I got this picture about a Global Cluster from nasa.gov. I don't really know what it is but I just think it looks really cool. As you can see at the bottom of the red one it says VIS and on the bottom if the blue it says UV. I stil don't know what that means.

Juan Z. 8 2010

Yesterday in class we saw a movie that talked about coral reefs. The movie talked about coral reefs and how they are endangered. It had a group of people who were traveling to different coral reefs in the world. Coral reefs are found in the water and it is the home to many fish and plants. This is why it is very important to protect these coral reefs. If we stop caring and start damaging these coral reefs would just be a huge open space of land. The people in this movie think that these coral reefs could be endangered because of overfishing. Which means that if we could fish less we could stop damaging these coral reefs. I'm not saying that we should stop fishing but just fish less because that's how we are losing our fish living in the coral reefs. And not only are coral reefs beneficial to the fish and plants, but they are also beneficial to us. They are a lot like the rainforest this is also where we can also get our medicines from the coral reefs. So if these coral reefs are beneficial to us why shouldn't we care for it? Another way we can stop harming it is by not dumping stuff in the water anymore. Toxic waste kills the animals and kils the plants and it kills the whole coral reef. And as I say if we have no more coral reefs it will not be good for anybody. It kills the plants and kills all the other organisms and could also harm us.