Course Schedule

Session	Topic	Notes
June 16	Introduction of Globaloria	Initial brainstorming of issues related to food and nutrition with rethinkers
June 17	Brainstorming – Dream A Game	Amu, what happening in this 1 hr. session?
June 23-24	Install Flash (Ebelio, Amu)
June 25	Course Introduction
June 26	Learning Game Design	Explore the MyHLife.org website and channels and play health related games. Write reviews of 3 games (what worked, what didn't work, what you would change, how you can make it better, what you wan to learn how to do.
June 30	Imagining Your Game
July 1-2	Planning Your Game	Write an outline for game. Include names and roles of each game design team member.
July 3, 7	Paper Prototyping	Draw game scenes and assets on paper to create game narrative (beginning to end).
July 8-10	Drawing in Flash	Design and publish all game assets.
July 11-12	Adding Interaction	Identify and create buttons necessary to navigate through game.
July 13-17	Adding Animation	Decide which aspects of game require animation according to game plan. Work with NYC Foundation team to animate game scenes.
July 18	Adding Sound	Research and identify sounds that correlate with game.
Jul 21	Presenting Your Game	No Globaloria meeting on Jul 22 or 23? Please confirm.

Progress Report

Topic	Date(s)	Time Spent	Notes
Introduction	6/16/08	1 hour	Introducing the Globaloria Program and World Wide Workshop Team - Idit, Amu, Leslie and Noa... Brainstorming about games we play, games that are good and educational, and how to teach others about important issues through web-games.
Think about Games for Health	6/17/08	2 hours	Introducing Rethinkers to www.MyHLife.org... What's there and how it works. Registering on the community wiki.
Build our Community Wiki	6/18/08	1 hour	Rethinkers build Wiki Profiles.
Build Personal Profile Pages	6/19/08	2.5 hours	Add photos to Profile Pages from the File Gallery.
Start a Diary Page	6/20/08	2.5 hours	Write a Daily Diary about your ideas for a game about Healthy schools and healthy Cafeterias.
Personalize and Express yourself	6/21/08	2 hours	Personalize wiki Profiles, change color fonts and faces, add more pictures (with captions!), change background colors, think about a Game for Health and write about it!
Visit other Rethinkers online	6/24/08	2 hours	Explore everyone's wiki profiles and tweaking any minor details. Leave comments on other Rethinkers Profile Pages.