Interactive Gaming 2009

40-odd presentations later... Just finished another 3 taking my total to 31!

That means that there's still 13 to go. The delay is down to a couple of things:

• Failed uploads on to CD/DVD
• Late submissions
• Scripts received, but no presentations
• Presentations received, but no scripts

To avoid this in the future, please save everything to you statler file clearly marked. One of my students on GS8 called Lee Dennis saves his work as GS8/Lee Dennis/Vero's Lessons/ and then "Assignment 1.1" etc.

Also, it's a nightmare when I ask for files to be submitted as .ppt or .pptx and I get .odp; why? Because I ask specifically for PowerPoint as a presentation. You can save your work for PowerPoint or MS Office in OpenOffice, I'm niot sure why you don't do it. If you do that, you'll find that you can work on it at home and at Confetti.

This week, you present your work. Ooooh! I'm dead excited and, as well as wanting a hard copy, I will be marking your work right there and then (hopefully my typing will be quick enough!)

Good luck everyone and well done so far.

Stay tuned.

I have to say that by 4.30pm last night I was completely exasperated!
Never before have I worked with 44 people who have/have not any grasp of PowerPoint presentations, handing work in BEFORE deadlines or saving hard copiers or printing work out.

Now, I hope that I took on 44 people who were technologically savvy (after all you are hoping to work in a technological world) so, with that in mind, I hope that you can redress the balance, dust yourselves off from this most embarrassing of situations and crack on!

If you can't get through your induction assignment, what hope do we have of getting your through your National Diploma?

When you received an assignment:

a) READ IT!
b) Start working on it immediately, even if it's writing an intro paragraph
c) Breakdown the assignment into readable chunks
d) Attempt the hard stuff first (that way you have loads of time to get help or take notes in lessons)
e) Read the assignment again

When you are close to completion, do this:

a) READ THE ASSIGNMENT AGAIN!
b) Show it to a skills tutor for spellings, grammar and punctuation help
c) Read your work to a family member or friend

When you are about to hand in your work to EST (or me):

a) READ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES VERY CAREFULLY
b) Read the submission guidelines again
c) Hand the work in BEFORE the deadline (as opposed to 3.59pm on a Friday)

Please, please, please DO NOT:

a) Email your work to me unless I have specifically requested it
b) Pester me about how to hand in work
c) Pester EST about handing in work
d) Spend precious time on the day of the deadline working on your assignment/procrastinating about your assignment or other
e) Hand work in after the deadline

Get in the habit of being professional at all times and you will leave Confetti with an exemplary record. Frankly it is tiresome for any teacher looking after 44 students to be constantly bombarded with mindless requests and endless emails about how to hand in work.

I'm trying very hard to treat you all as adults because that's what you are, so let's turn the page and start again from Monday, yes?

You'll get your mark in due course and work will not be discussed prior to that!

Wow, what a weird end to week 2 on the games course. I must tell you that I was hugely disappointed that although I gave you a very fair and just deadlines, some of you still couldn't make it. For you guys who missed the deadline without letting me know beforehand, you will be meeting with me on Monday.

The second huge disappointment of the day for me, was without question, the GS9 attendance to the film at the Broadway. With the notable exception of GS9-1 (you guys are awesome!), the only faces I saw and really appreciated were:
Joe Straw - GS9-2 REPRAZENT
Jacob Henry - GS9-2 REPRAZENT
David Correia - GS9-3 REPRAZENT
William Larcombe - GS9-3 REPRAZENT
Robert Ward - GS9-3 REPRAZENT
I think that there may have been one more, but the great news for you lot is that you all got Confetti points.

Those that couldn't (/be bothered to) make it, that's a shame, but it has somehow shaped how I see you doing over the course of this next year. Putting work first, for me, on deadline day isn't an option, it's a mere oversight/bout of laziness that needs to be capped! More on assignments in my next entry!

Oh a weird note though, I really didn't expect to see the ones (outside of GS9-1) to be sat there watching Let The Right One In.

Any thoughts about the film? Put a comment below...

See below for the content of todays session and for our weekly notices, with a short explanation of what they mean:


Weekly student notices are there to inform and hopefully guide you in the general direction of stuff to do during your time at Confetti. Please keep checking the blog for each week's notices which could range from excursions to different places to parties to money off bargains and such-like.

Raiden - don't get mad, but this is to help ALL gamers everywhere!

From Interactive Gaming 2009