Pertaining to our game Fraction Fling, the rubric was fairly easy to create. The game is very simple and to the point when it comes to grading it. The only problem that I found hard to grade was the Knowledge Gained segment of the rubric. The game does give clues as to what would be the point of the game, but not enough for the targeted audience to fully grasp what the concept of the game would be.
I'm a special education major so I would most likely not be using this game in any of my classes that I would teach in the future. Although, if my content area was math I would use this game as a starter to learning simple fractions. I wouldn't use it as a basis for my lessons but I would use it to show them the relationship between the number (i.e. 1/2) to the model that represents it (a pie chart fraction). This game doesn't go into anything other than determining basic fractions and what they look like. The game doesn't teach students how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide fractions so teaching kids about fractions with this game would be pointless and irrelevant to anything other than an introduction to fractions.
The most helpful tool that we used in creating our presentation was Wix. The website builder is very easy to navigate and use, especially for first time webpage designers. We did have some difficulty starting out though. We needed to use outside resources (Youtube, Google, etc.) to figure out how to add some media into the website because the instructions given by the site weren't very clear or helpful. Also when it came to us saving the content on our site, the things that we saved would sometimes disappear after we publish it.
The site also comes with many different templates that you can use to start off the design of your website. These templates are organized into categories that could pertain to any webpage builder (games, business, personal, etc.) which made the process of looking for a design to use very easy and manageable. I would recommend this webpage builder to anyone thinking about designing their own website, especially if they are new to making webpages.
Wiggio was a very helpful tool that my group and I used. We used Wiggio to send out mass emails with information that was needed for our group presentation and it went straight to our email. Wiggio also has a mobile app for iPhone and Android so you didn't need a computer or internet browser to gain access to your account. The only problem I personally had with Wiggio was that it didn't send you notifications, through email or the app, in sufficient time. There would be times where we would make plans to meet up to work on the presentation and the email wouldn't be received until hours later.
