learning quizes

Braidon Steed you are a visual learner

Test scores

Auditory: 25% Visual: 60% Tactile: 15%

ACT X REF

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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SEN X INT

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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VIS X VRB

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

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SEQ X GLO

11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11

I am not to surprised on how this has turned out. I have taken tests like this before and I have always been a visual learner.

Progress Journal #2

Our project is coming along o.k. we are getting around to making a video and our brochure. I am developing our project slowly. The movie is a pain in the butt because its all slides and parts of video. I am hoping to do well on this project. The information that we got from our teacher was a big help.

Rain

this weather this week really sucked it pretty much rained all week. It is finally calmed down even though it is really cold. I am hoping that it stays dry for the next week sense it is the break coming up.

Progress Journal #1

Braidon Steed

Project(Proposal)

We met on Tuesday to work on our proposal and to decide how we where going to go about our project. It took us around two hours to figure this out. We are going to do a sells pitch of putting video games into a elementary and middle school environment. The pitch will be directed towards school administrations and parents of the students.

Time: 2 hours

History Channel

Alright well I am just very curious if anyone watches the history a lot. Ever sense i started collage started to seem like all I ever watch is the history channel. Its very interesting especially shows like pawn stars and modern marvels. Even stuff I don't really think is interesting like what I am watching now. I am not sure what the show is called but its about Nazi America. I am so surprised about how vivied that it was here in america in the 70's.

Our project for english

We are planning on doing our project though a video and maybe a brochure not we are exactly sure yet though. The project will be trying to sell a sales pitch of video games being a vital tool in the classroom. This will be directed towards parents, school administers and teachers. The video will show at 1st kids just going to school normally, looking bored and just going though the routine. The 2nd part will show kids going though a great change they are playing video games and you can tell that they are happy and enjoying school.

Thats about all I got for right now so if i get more info ill put it up

Crazy freak out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc

this is what happens when you play World of Warcraft or also known as WoW way to much and your account gets canceled


crazy huh

Happy Guy Fawkes Day

Today is the 5th of November, A holiday in Great Britain. It is celebrated as remembrance holiday in which the king and the parliament was saved from being blown up. Guy Fawkes was the guy who was going to blow up the parliament building but was caught right before it happened. It is celebrated though the country with fireworks and bonfires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night for more information

Halloween

Halloween this year is going to kind of boring for me. I am going to see a play that I have to see for my theater 100 class. The play is called Little Women. I am hoping the Play is good and at least I didn't waste to much of time by going to the play. After the play is over it will be late so I'll end up just going back to the dorm and hang out. Ya kind of a boring Halloween huh.

Assassins

A new game has started this week called assassins. The game is a very discreet game where you get 5 dossiers and you have to go out and assassinate them. The game is to go on for the rest of the semester. The game right now is in the beta stages so there is many problems but are being fixed. Unlike HvZ you can kill people in doors and able to set up indirect kills. After you die you either become a CIA agent or a informant. A CIA agent goes out and kills the people who have gained to much infamy or had to many witnesses to there kills. A informant finds out information on other assassins and try to sell it to other assassins. The game ends when all the assassins are dead or the last surviving assassin kills the head of the CIA.

PS3

I was just curious if anyone had a PS3 out there and what games they where going to buy this winter with so many PS3 games coming out its going to be hard for me to choose what to buy and what ones are worth it. Some the great games have come out like Uncharted 2, Brutal legend, and Borderlands. There is many more on the way though such as Assassins Creed 2, Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon's Age: Origins, and some others that I cant think of at the moment. Myself, I am at least planing on getting Call of Duty and Assassins Creed 2 but I don't know what else to get so I am asking for your guys opinions on what you're getting this holiday season.

Dagorhir

Most of you have probably seen the people fighting with fake swords and shield on the university green in the past. I finally got the nerve up to go out there see what it was about it yesterday. The game is called Dagorhir. The game has chapters or groups all over the united states. I got to play with them that day because they had community weapons for people that would like to play the game but don't have the money to buy them or not sure how to make them. The game is really fun and its excise without me even knowing it. My whole body was aching afterward. Its probably the most geeky thing I have ever done before but its fun so I have decided that I will get involved in it and one day hopefully make my own weapons.

Video Game training increases Novice Surgons Performance

30 surgical Novices where matched randomly into 2 groups that for 5 weeks would play 2 different video games. One group would the 1st person shooter Half Life and the other group played the game chess-master. They played these games to increase there capability with the two endoscopic surgical simulators (MIST-VR and GI Mentor II). The group that played Half Life had increased there ability's with both endoscopic surgical simulators. The other group that played chess-masters only increased on the MIST-VR. This showing that videos that have higher visual-spatially challenging video games like Half Life might be a predictive factor for the outcome in surgical simulation.


Schlickum, Marcus, et al. "Systematic Video Game Training in Surgical Novices Improves Performance in Virtual Reality Endoscopic Surgical Simulators: A Prospective Randomized Study." World Journal of Surgery 33.11 (2009): 2360-2367. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Oct. 2009.

HvZ comes to end

Yes HvZ is over alas but our final mission was awesome. It started with the zombies meeting at the steps of the Art museum and humans met at the north bus stop. Zombies find out that the humans are going to be in two convoys and they are heading this way to get a helicopter extraction point. One of the convoys was sabotaged with a zombie baby so the convoy was going to go down and we could take it out but the 2nd one was going to make it to the last stand spot. The mission started and the zombies ran towards north bus stop and met with the 1st convoy and it pulled over suddenly and convoy fell apart and everyone got eaten by the zombies. The 2nd convoy came 5 minutes later that had less people but they made it all the way down with out any troubles. They made it to the front of the admin building and made there final stand there. Two charges from the zombies and it was over. After it was over we had the traditional charge. Alas its over but there will be another game in the spring so everyone come and join

Gatorade

Ya it feels like sense i have come to college I am living off of Gatorade. Im talking all flavors and all kinds. Its just so convenient I just grab it and take it with me. Its wierd i never drank gatorade when I was younger. Sense I have stopped drinking pop it just like hmm pop or gatorade or some snapple stuff that's all dark and in a corner. So Gatorade it is i was wondering if anyone is the same way when they came here to college.

HvZ Has started

Like the Title says HvZ has started and we have had our 1st mission of the game last night that went into the we hours of the morning. We have lost alot of people more then usual on the 1st night and some of the players that went down are some of the most influential and well known players. This Has scared many of older players scared which is scaring the younger players but we are slowly getting into organized groups and hopefully by tonight we will find out who the OZ's (original zombies) are and try not to lose any more players tonight when tonights mission goes into affect.

Hair

I went seen hair last Sunday(ya I am a little slow on posting for it but oh well). I thought the play was great. It had a great atmosphere. Everyone was very lively and some people even dressed up as same as the actors which I thought that was really cool. The actors often broke the 4th wall which means they got off the stage and involved the audience.I thought the actors did a great job expect for the guy named woof I thought he was really obnoxious and annoying. The plot in general was kind of sad to me I am not going to spoil and details but I thought it was. I diffently recommend it to people that liked the 70's culture and the way the depicted it.

HvZ meeting tonight

We had a HvZ meeting tonight and it went awesome I learned alot about how to get from class to class and some ways to stay away from the zombies. Its all about being able to run as fast as you can or as tactfully as you can. HvZ can be killer on the body if you are not in shape cause you have to run everywhere. I learned you have to deal with a lot of shit though from other people on the campus which is kind of sad. You would think people would grow up a little bit. Ya I'm shameless to we can always use new recruits so come and join us at http://www.bsu.edu/hvz/index.php the real battle starts next Thursday so you have until then to join so come on out.

this coming up weekend

This weekend on seeing Hair and going home for the weekend. I am hoping the play Hair, that I have to see for my Theater 100 class is to be really good. I have been to a few plays in my life but none that where very big. I have heard that play was one of the 1st rock & roll plays put into play. Its about free love and hippies of course.
I am also going home yay! Im taking laundry home with me so I don't have to pay for it which is awesome. I get to get some home cooked food and pick up some stuff that I have left at home. I get to see my dogs, cats and horses. I am hoping to get some good away time and get some good rest and be ready to go back in to it Monday.

TGS

TGS or the Tokyo Game Show started this week and we got a update on what video game company's are up to and how they are coming along. TGS is a huge event for video game company's they get to show off their baby's and get the world excited for what is to come. The convention as so far as today we have seen the new Sony motion device in action and seen Microsoft's motion device on video. We seen more of assassins creed 2, metal gear solid peace maker, no more heros 2, dead space extraction, lost planet 2 and many more. It started Wednesday and it will end this Sunday, so if anything exciting happens in the following time ill put it up.

Music analyst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO2nqcN3EGg

This song is by the band Seether. This is for my music analyst it deals with suicide and no matter what you should be able to rise above and not need to go though with it. The song also has a deep importance to Shaun Morgans the singer for seether this brother committed suicide when Seether was on tour. I believe this song would be good to analyze because a lot of people don't know what this song is actually about and why the band wrote this song, but this is just one of many of the songs i have to pick from. I'll give more in latter blogs

Ishmael Beah

I thought Ishmael did a great job of speaking. He kept the audience entertained yet informed them of his culture and whats going on in Africa. He had a lot of courage to stand up there and read from his book. It would be really hard for me if I went though what he did to relive those memory by reading them to the whole audience. The questions where really quite good that where asked. My roommate asked the one about what was going though his head when someone in Australia tired to tell Ishmael his story was false. Overall he did a great job and I would love to go see him again

HvZ

I am looking for some mates to work with for the HvZ game coming this October, but there is training stuff they having going on that you can do before the main event. If you don't know what HvZ is ill tell ya. It stands Humans vs Zombies. Its a Huge On campus game with over 200 players it involves Nerf guns and shooting other people what else could pique your interest. for more rules and info http://www.bsu.edu/hvz/index.php I hope to see you around the game and work with ya

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

I just bought a poster for the movie just recently and surprised at how many people that walk into my room and say awesome poster. Monty Python a The Holy Grail is an old British comedy spoofing King Arther and his search for the holy grail. It has lots of dumb jokes and puns that a lot of people don't think there funny. I on the other hand think its one the best movies ever. I can quote many parts of the movie for example.

King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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I copied and pasted so I didn't mess up anywhere

I am hoping I can spread more of monty python and his crazy comedy to the other people so if you want you know more you can always ask

My Memoir

I'm not sure what I am going to write about but I might do the ice storm we had a while back so I write some about that. Its winter, The powers everywhere. Only thing running is our propane heaters and the refrigerator which is being run by a generator that we take camping with us. My family and I are stuck at home doing nothing. Ice covers everything outside,from the trees to our poor dogs fur. We have blankets covering the doorways to keep heat from our propane heaters escaping our little sanctuary. We have the radio on we find out our county is in a state of emergency. This was a plus for my siblings and me cause that meant we didn't have to worry about making up school.
Ok well thats all Im writing for now on it. I feel like I need so much more for it. I guess I have a long weekend ahead of me

new movies I plan on seeing in the up coming months and onward

1. Gamer - comes out this Friday I am looking forward to this high octane flick that deals with mind controlling tech.
2. Nine- what can i say little sewn sac people that fight with metal fragments and its directed by Shane Acker and produced by Tim Burton
3.avatar by the director of the titanic people putting there minds in big walking purple people so they can interact with the world that come to.. cool
4. Alice in wonder land- has Johnny Depp in it , it looks very creepy so a must
5.iron man 2- the 1st one was awesome so y not
6.Zombieland - interesting... zombies are always awesome so sounds fun
7. the vampires assistant - I have read the books they where great so i have to hope for the best one this one
8. Avatar the Last Airbender - I watched the cartoon I liked it. I had a sense of originality so I am hoping for the best on this one to
9.Pandorum - its scifi horror other then I don't really know much about this comes out this fall I have seen the trailer it looks good so I guess its something to look forward to
10. The Road - I haven't got around reading the book but this movie looks great.
Well that's it for now when more are available ill put them on this blog

Star Wars: The Old Republic

http://g4tv.com/videos/41004/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-GamesCom-2009-Dev-Walkthrough/ I am really excited for this game it has lots of story and such a diversity of charters and weapons i believe this game i might go places. It will definitely give WoW a run for its money considering WoW has been out so long people are getting tired of it. This will give a new spin on mmos. Tons of story line the longest storybook writing ever in a video game or any movie that's out there . It looks just like knights of old republic it has choices you have to make deciding the way people look at you or what quests you can do. Trust me people this is definitely the game to look forward to in 2010. You know I will be playing it when it comes out so I hope to see you there