Monday, December 12, 2011

QUEST POWER

I have done at least five important quests that give you lots of XP for you
and you level up really fast.

How To Fly a Griffon

In this video i will show you how to find a griffon and ride it to go to a place.

The night elf

Hi today I am going to show you the best night elf transportation it is almost like humans it is not a griffun it is like a bird combined with a sheep and a lion.

Upgrading Level

Today I am going to show you how to upgrade level doing quests and how much you have left to upgrade to a higher level.

How to Kill Modan Monster!

First you need a ranged weapon, and a pet....., and then you need to see me taking you in the loch.
You need to have full health.

Recording in WoW

Hi Everyone,

We will be making our first attempts at recording in the lesson today. Here is a link to the instructions.
The objective is for you to think back to all the amazing things you have learned so far about WoW, places you have gone, discoveries you have made and record a short video under 3 minutes long, which talks us through the experience. This video is a screencast really, which you are all familiar with so you should find it easy enough to do. Logitech headsets are indispensable today.

You will be able to find your finished (compressed) movie in your Applications>World of WArcraft>Movies folder, please place use handbrake to convert them and place a copy in the World of Warcraft folder in Student Shared Docs using smb://dc.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Parental Controls

Here is a short video which will show you how to set up your parental controls in WoW.
In doing this you can set Play-time Limits and Play Schedules, activate or deactivate Real ID and Voice Chat and request Play-time Reports.

If you have allowed your child to download the trial version at home, please ensure that you have looked at the parental controls and set them to your preferences.


Our First Meetup

We held our first meeting of the WoW club this afternoon. What can I say? Kids pick these things up so quickly. Before I knew it they were 3 levels above me, riding phoenixes, questing and learning to get around. We decided to keep everyone in the Alliance, which means a few of us, myself included had to create a new character, as our first characters belonged to the Horde.  We are very lucky in that our systems manager Mr. Montes is a bit of a  WoW expert, having played extensively over the years. The kids were thrilled to have him introduce the game to them and take their many questions. By the time we got out to the computers the energy was really crackling. The bell rang at 3:00 and no one moved to go home, myself included. Most of us continued playing until just before 4:00.

We didn't begin the readings or the reflections this week. The readings will begin after the Christmas holidays, the reflections start next week in this blog. So what did we learn?

The students began learning about WoW lore. They learned how to move and communicate in-world. They learned to accept and complete quests and began working together in order to meet their objectives.

Next week we will blog about our experiences so far, take part in some more quests and then prepare to reconvene in January.  I don't for a minute think the kids will leave it at that. I can imagine that most of them will continue playing over the next couple of weeks. I can only hope to try to keep up with them when we return.  I know they will have a lot to show me in the new year.

I am including a copy of the letter with live links here for any of our parents who need one, in order to explore further. I will be posting a video in the blog later on, which explains how to set up parental controls for those who plan on downloading the trial version at home.