Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Feasibility Report #23

1. In a few sentences, briefly summarize what you did.
Created a video game based off the School House Rock video "I'm Just A Bill" using the program scratch.

2. What key ideas, skills or concepts are needed to complete this project? Be specific.
An understanding of the process in which a bill must undergo to become a law is needed. As well as knowledge of the program Scratch and how to create video games.

3. Specifically, list any Web 2.0 tools, websites, software or other resources used to complete this project. (all tool should be open source, if not please identify)
I used Scratch as well as Google images to gain the pictures needed for the video game characters and backgrounds.

4. What prior knowledge was needed to complete the task?
An understanding of the process for a bill to become a law.

5. What were the obstacles/challenges to completing this project? How did you overcome them?
Getting the Scratch program to correctly understand all of the coding for the video game was especially difficult.

6. What needs to be changed in the project?
Originally the project entitled using a timeline to show the process, but a video game felt like a more interactive way for a student to learn.

7. What resources (knowledge/content based) did you use to complete this task.
N/A