Meeting Minutes 09/27/10

Met with Dr. Doerschuk today

ACET
Complete poster by Friday to send to the print shop

FIE
A Literature Review was suggested
Need confirmation that our project meets FIE criteria

Tapia
Waiting for submission date

SIGSIC
November 1st due date for poster submission

Lesson Plan Focus
CS Concepts
* Sequence, Selection, Repetition, Objects
Peer programming
* Studies show that more students are retained if they work cooperatively
Co-operative play
* How can we implement this?

Theme - Cleaning up the Environment
Why?
* People want to feel as though they are doing something good.
* Satisfaction from putting family first or participating in disaster relief efforts
* Being able to do good is rewarding and self-motivating .

Update on some ideas

Poster
finish filling in bullet point by Wed.
Do we add references to poster?

Ideas about contacting schools:
For spring:
Mr. Herman - Hardin Jefferson
Ask if we can come in for his webmastering class

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Focus

9-20 Meeting Minutes

Met with Dr. Liu today.

ACET

1. Development Tools for Poster -

• Include when they were created

FIE

1. Continue work started with ACET poster, turn into (2-4 page?) Technical paper

• Survey for Game Deisgn - comprehensive, use previous ACET work
  

• Literature Review - How these were used in game developement

CS Concept Isolation-

1. Focus on CS concepts - match to Greenfoot programming techniques
2. Create chart - Column: Sessions, Rows: Objectives, Features, Questions.. Etc.
3. Find/create story or theme for game

Seminars (High School) - Dec

• West Brook, Hardin Jefferson, Etc..
  
• Ask about programming, web design, etc. classes, so students who might not have considered programming are introduced to it as well

Minicast (teacher resource workshop) -

• Perhaps provide a seminar for the teachers
• Including a questionaire of what they have problems with, questions about, would like to see

SIGCSE -

• Poster - Lesson plan design

Games -

1. Levels corresponding to the different concepts
2. Each level a different type of game

1. Need to look up the different types of games preferred by minorities and under represented
   

09-15 Meeting Minutes

Note: At every meeting, bring the time line and post meeting minutes to blog

Need to find: Any reporting to CREU?
For ACET Poster:
Kasey - Greenfoot, Scratch
Valerie - Game Maker, Alice
Daniel - XNA
Independent frameworks are ok, too.

For Environments in poster -
What is the environment?
Who developed it?
What level did they have in mind?
Also, pros, cons, and resources (forums, blogs, etc.)

Don't forget to use CREU & Lamar logo in poster


For Lessons:
Find topics to design lessons around
Check Greenfoot book for ideas
Start with objects (each lesson?)
Maybe about 10 topics about 1 hour each