Graduation

Our graduation is on the 27th of May, and I am excited to graduate.  I have been in school for 13 years and it will be fun to finish but also sad at the same time.  I will be going to college and getting a degree at WVU.

Track

This Track season is coming to an end soon.  Today will be our last regular meet before regionals and states.  The meet is the Lion's club invitational which the Oak Hill Coaches will be running (like usual).  This could be the last track meet that I will be in if I an not able to run at regionals.

Knock out game at half time

Today we have a game between the police and the oak hill track team.  During half-time there will be a knock out game with three people from each grade and several teachers.  I signed up for the knock out tornement but I don't know if I will get to play.

Myglife page failure

Today the wiki page for the globaloria class shut down today for unknown reasons.  We were in the middle of the learning logs when the pages stopped loading but we could go anywhere else on the internet.  This is depressing because it will  halt our work for a short amount of time.

Drill for the National Guard

The weekend before spring break, I went to the armory down at Glen Jean.  While I was there we did several activities.  The first activity, other than working out, was picking up trash at two dump sites and along the road.  We split in 3 groups and spent two hours at it getting a large quantity of trash.  We also went over more squad movements and reactions in different contact situations.  We also played with puggle sticks, which is a giant q tip that you attack each other with, which I was cheated out of a win in.  The weekend was really fun and I can't wait till next month.

Spring Break

   My plans for spring break mainly includes track practice at 10 am every day.  Also we have a meet Tuesday during spring break that I am excited to go to.  Other than track, I will be doing extra chores for spring cleaning (unfortunately).  Hopefully I will get more sleep than usual but I doubt it.

Back to Globaloria

For the past week and a half, we have been cut off of our globaloria class.  The writting accessment was give at our school so our class was forced to go to the gym every day last week.  I am glad that we finally get the chance to get back to work!

Track

This track season is shaping up to be an awesome season for the boys team.  We have all our distance runners from last year and an entire team of sprinters and several jumpers.  Hopefully we can send several people to the state meet.  This is the best boys track team that we have had in over 5 years at Oak Hill High School.  Unfortunately I am dealing with knee problems that are slowing me down but hopefully that will get better.

Team Page Completed

The team page on our globaloria account is finally completed.  It took a while to complete the page since a lot of our data went missing.   We finished a day early so we are making good progress.

Game Demo



The game demo is going along greatly and we are hopefully going to complete it by Friday.  The class is having problems adding buttons, but we will overcome that.

 

The team members of team awesome is John Neal and Jesse Miller.  My role is designer and co-code maker of the game.  Jesse Miller is the other co-code maker and actionscript 2.0 support technition.  I like working in the team because it evenly distributes the work of the project.  The greatest challenge about collaborative work is when your partner is absent from school but that can be overcome by not missing school in the first place.

My game

Who are you designing your game for?  I am creating this game for my globaloria class.
What will your gmae teach the player about your topic?  It will teach them the defenses that the body has and how they are used.
Where does you game happen?  The game will take place inside of the body where most of your defenses are.
How does your game world teach the player about your topic?  They will learn about the immune system.
Why is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz?  Games are more fun than quizes because you can interact with a game.

Exercise

This spring I will be starting an excersise regiment after track practice from 4 to 5 PM.  The reason that I am starting this is because several people that I know are in or are planning to join the national guard and they are not in the best shape.  In order to go to Basic Combat Training (BCT) you have to pass a Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) if you have been to more than two drills.  The goal is to help them pass the test so they can either go to BCT or lose some weight so that they can enlist.  The basic work out will be to start with a warm-up and stretching then go on a distance run.  Then we will go to our main work out which will help with there push-up and sit-up counts.  Finally we will end with a cool down and some more stretching.  The first day I will give everyone a APFT to see where they are and tell them where they need to improve.