Meeting Minutes 10-26-10

Attended: Dr. Doerschuk, Daniel, and Valerie (taking minutes)

• We looked at the abstract for a paper we plan to submit to FIE
• Talked about our game idea and how we plan to make it cooperative (or at least have the option to)
• Stranded alien needs help, asks 'heroine/hero' for help
• Both travel to different worlds/rooms from hub to find pieces or clues to get ship working
• We can have independent stories on each day
• Should we develop graphic only and code only materials?
• Maybe graphic focused and code focused materials
• Logo!

Meeting Minutes: October 18, 2010

Lesson Plan development:
* Consider adding "user input" to lesson plan topics
* Each lesson should last about 1 to 2 hour
* Break down the work between the three of us; papers, design, and implementation.

Upcoming events:
* FIE (get a draft of a lit review ready send to Dr. Liu asap)
* Sigsce (still under consideration)
* Tapia
* Grace Hopper

10/11/10 Meeting Minutes

This meeting we went over topics for the lessons.
We've decided that our lessons will go as follows

1. Variable assignment and arithmetic operations
2. Control - repetition and selection
3. Data Structures - arrays and matrices
4. OOP - classes, objects, and methods
5. Challenge/Creative day

We also need to mention API and we could possibly do inheritance.

These lessons will add value to Greenfoot material since out materials will be topic based as opposed to tool based (like their book)

10-4 Meeting Minutes

Poster for ACET -

-flip logo

-add conference name, date and location

-handouts are not needed

-break up abstract

-post a pdf on the blog

FIE -

-survey, different title

-abstract

-intro - why gaming

-related - outreach - video game is one type

what other types are there.. ie. robotics

-contribution - survey of these 6

comparison, insights, conclusions

-Contact - Kevin Curry

1(785)864-7861

date - 12-15 Oct, 2011

ACET Conference is Thursday through Saturday, (Oct 7-9)

Next week:

FIE - title and outline

Check CSUnplugged for concepts

Special Reports

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