Last Day

My Summer Job with the World Wide Workshop Foundation is coming to an end. It’s a good time to reflect on some great things that happened on our MySLife Network since I joined the team a couple months ago.

The MySLife network certainly continues to thrive! This past month witnessed a lot of progress from MySLife participants. A lot of rather ambitious and elaborate game ideas have been posted and a few have been turned into storyboards and flash scenes.

In particular Samar, who was the first to post her game scenes in flash created a pretty interesting concept marrying scientific ideas on the Ozone layer and global warming with a fun and immersive game and an engaging narrative.





I truly enjoyed helping and contributing to the making of this innovative project, as we were trying to figure out how to connect people from all around the world around science learning and the climate crisis. I grew to realize the value of operating a global network for learning science. I was fascinated by the power of communicating, on a daily basis, with MySLife participants from Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Russia as well as with colleagues in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and West Virginia. Online collaboration and learning using Wikis and Blogs is on the menu daily at the World Wide Workshop Foundation.

Moreover, I also learned a lot about the value of designing and programming social-issue games and simulations, and how to use Web 2.0 tools for learning.

I will miss interacting with MySlife participants and seeing their ides take shape into games and witnessing their steep learning of game designing and flash as today will be my last day at the WWWF.

I would like to thank the participants for the opportunity of learning with them and through them as well as the team here at the WWWF and all those who made this opportunity possible for me.

Keep up the good work everyone!. I will be checking-in and looking forward to hearing about everybody’s progress.

Learning Flash

Just like most of MySLife participants, I spent last week learning a few simple things about Flash(keyframes, motion tweens, layers, symbols, etc) and how to use the software to create game scenes and simple animations.

I spent the first couple of days self-learning, trial-and-error type of methodology and it was very time consuming. I also don't think it was such a great and productive idea after all :).

I then started watching and using the video clips prepared by Daniel, one of the WWWF summer interns and a few other from YouTube that were on the wiki:




Following these show-how type of tutorials made the learning much easier and much more fun so my advice is: use them!:)