Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Welcome GWHS Globaloria Students

This is a special posting to my Globaloria students at Greenbrier West High School. I am so excited about the upcoming year. We have a great new schedule that will allow us a great deal of time to work on projects each day. The class is now a 2 period block occurring each day! We will have time to really concentrate on a topic without having to shut down so quickly. That will enable us to work on Globaloria, Videography, Photoshop (we are supposed to be getting this!) and other computer related art programs. Hopefully, you are as excited as I am even though as students you don't always feel that you can show that excitement. I am going to assume that you are all excited inside anyway.
Another exciting addition is that we will be having Mrs. Leef in the classroom also. She has great computer skills and is hard at work learning all about Flash. She and I have been in some very helpful training sessions this summer and we are planning on really being able to start into everything very quickly.
Want to get started? Begin looking at games and jot down some things that appeal to you; the components, the type of game, the graphics, etc..
Lookings forward to working and learning with you!
Mrs. Neal

August session

New Flip Cameras! Yes, teachers love to have new toys but in this case, toys that will be very useful in the classroom. We had some great training on Tuesday and except some new things today. The presentations by the new people just blew me away, they were so much better than what we did last year. So the training is definitely on the right track. I feel so much more capable this year and I'm looking forward to a great school year.