I implemented a new wiki page procedure for my game design students.

For the remainder of the year, any item posted to the student wiki's must be posted in italic, must be magenta colored and must be begin flush left with the edge of the page.

I have two reasons for doing this:
First it will get the students in the habit of practicing wiki coding. This will help them develop an awareness of the importance and value of each keystroke and symbol in coding.

1. Additionally, it will make reading the wikis, whether by me, the Globaloria team, or a researcher, uniform across all projects pages for all Wheeling Park students. This will enable me to grade projects more rapidly and track at a glance, which projects students have completed and which are still  in progress.

Here is a screen shot of the sample page I coded to demonstrate to the students, the style I wanted our wiki project pages to follow. 

Well. 


We're back into the swing of things for Game Design Class—one class this year with 19 students, seventeen boys and two girls. It's an interesting combination. This is the smallest number of girls I have had in my game design class. It will be interesting to see what affect, if any, this will have on the type of games developed or the output of the class. 


I have an assistant this year, a senior student. He is a great young man and has been in my graphics classes for four years and he previously took the Game Design Class. It is wonderful to have him in the class, assisting the students. 


This has been the most hectic of starts for me this year, because my free time after school and this summer before school began, has been spent in a frenzy of activity. Our daughter got married on July 22, with all the attendant planning and organizing. Also, we were—and are—in the middle of selling our house and moving. We close on Friday of this week. Since the wedding, It has been nonstop work, getting two places ready, one to move out of and one to move into. This has really impacted outside of school prep and planning time. Thankfully, we are almost done and things should be getting back to normal. A new normal, with a married daughter and a new home, but a norman none the less.