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Super mario 3d world world bowser9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The game does a decent job of introducing you to all the systems it has to offer, but mastering them is a completely different story. This is the first time the series has been on a home console since 2003, and the last entry on 3DS was way back in 2014, so odds are we could all use a refresher. There is a whole suite of new mechanics, systems, modes, and powers that even veterans of the series will have to learn. However, Mario Golf: Super Rush isn't just the same golf game with a fresh coat of paint, some new courses, and characters. If you are an experienced Mario golfer, the basic mechanics of the game will be mostly familiar. Just knowing the basics of golf is only step one in mastering your game. This isn't just your typical golf game, just like how tennis, soccer, and even kart racing are never exactly as they are in real life when Mario plays them. A somewhat surprising announcement from Nintendo is that Mario Golf: Super Rush is the newest outing for the Mario sports series. It's been quite a while since Mario and his pals have hit the green for a round of friendly - or not-so-friendly - golf. Mario Golf: Super Rush goes to New Donk City with free update today Kirby and the Forgotten Land: All copy abilities explained Kirby and the Forgotten Land: All secret mission objectives Wolfenstein 3D and more classic Bethesda games join PC Game Pass Wonder: release date, trailers, gameplay, and more These are, sadly, the only two warp zones available in Super Mario 3D World. However, even if you’ve played the game before, all the levels are more than worth replaying now that the game is back and better than ever on the Switch. You’re treated to one more scene of Mario sliding under an entire world until reaching world 5. If you do fall, as long as you don’t lose your cat suit, you can try again by just going back across the purple river and climbing back up. From here you just need to run and jump across the floating bits of land without falling off the purple waterfall, and on the other side is your final warp pipe. Grab the item in it and then leap on top and cat crawl your way up onto an upper platform otherwise out of view. You will go into a green pipe to an underground area with a checkpoint flag, and then emerge back above ground on a square platform with a transparent block glowing on the wall to the left. Load up into world 4-2, Piranha Creeper Creek, and work your way through the level. ![]() Just like the first warp zone, you will need to have a fresh cat suit handy in order to reach this next red pipe. There will be no indication anything is up there, the top of the screen is completely blacked out, except for a small ray of light shining where you should run up from.ĭive in and watch Mario soar underneath all the stage left in world 1 and pop out in world 2. Head just past the clear pipe exit sticking out of the wall and use your cat powers to scamper straight up the wall. Repeat the process one more time with a third invisible block and use them as a stairway to reach the upper platform. Hit it, get on top, and jump again on the right side to reveal a second invisible long block. Continue forward, through a clear pipe that takes you around a corner, and to a triple-wide question mark block. Run through this section until you hit the first checkpoint flag. 5 in Mario Maker 2 right nowĬheck out Super Nintendo World’s first Mario Kart-themed rideĪll Present Codes in Kirby and the Forgotten Land: How to redeem and rewardsĪs you go through 1-2 you will come into an underground section immediately after starting the stage. You can play a fan-made Super Mario Bros. ![]()
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Best device to record lectures9/1/2023 ![]() Recording lectures helps make your class more inclusive. But I can see how rewatching parts of it could be very helpful. Sometimes they do this at higher (1.5-2X) speed - one weird part of recording lectures is walking into a room and hearing yourself sounding like a chipmunk! If they are just passively rewatching the lecture, I’m not sure this would be a very effective study strategy, based on what we know about how people learn. Lots of students tell me that they use the lecture recordings to review - either rewatching the whole lecture or reviewing particular portions of it. Students who attend every lecture still use the lecture recordings. That always makes me wonder how many students are coming to class when they are sick just for those points. MAKE SURE STUDENTS KNOW ABOUT THE PREVIOUS TWO POINTS! This is important because, even near the end of the semester, I still talk with students who are surprised to learn that they can miss several classes without it impacting their clicker points.Given where we’re at now in terms of public health recommendations, I think “miss several classes without it impacting their grade” should probably be “miss many classes without it impacting their grade”. Otherwise, you are encouraging sick people to come to your classroom. ![]() If you have a component of the grade that relates to attendance, make it optional and/or make it so that students can miss several classes without it impacting their grade.(This is straightforward for many classes at Michigan, thanks to Lecture Capture integrating with Canvas.) Record lectures and make them available to all students.In the context of coronavirus, I think there are a few key things for instructors: I encourage them not to come to class, remind them that all the lectures are recorded, and remind them that they can miss five classes without their (optional) clicker points being impacted. Students sometimes write me worried about what to do since they’re sick but don’t want to fall behind. While recording lectures hasn’t had a noticeable impact on class attendance, students attending class isn’t always a good thing! I want my students to learn about infectious diseases, not spread them. Recording lectures means that students who are ill (or have a death in the family or some other life event) can miss class and still catch up later. Please share your experiences in the comments!) (In a twitter discussion of this, it seems that some share my experience of not noticing an impact on lecture attendance, while others report that it has impacted it. ![]() I think adding in the clickers had a big positive impact on attendance, which much more than offset any dropoff in attendance from recording the lectures. (We have two lectures a week, so that’s 2.5 weeks of class.) But, even with those allowances, students are pretty highly motivated to come to class, hopefully because they find the in class exercises and discussion useful, but I know a lot of it is because of clicker points. ![]() The clickers are optional (we calculate the grade two ways, with and without clickers, and use whichever is higher), and students can miss up to five classes without it impacting their clicker score. But, as far as we can tell, this mostly hasn’t happened, probably because we use clickers in class. Recording lectures doesn’t seem to have impacted attendance noticeably.īefore shifting to recording lectures, our main concern was that students might stop coming to class. And, at a time when we really don’t want sick students showing up in lecture halls, there’s a strong public health argument for recording lectures and setting up class structures so that sick students aren’t penalized for staying home. Overall, I think there have been a lot of different benefits - well beyond what I initially anticipated. I’ve been thinking of writing a post about my experiences with recording lectures in Intro Bio for a while, and, with coronavirus spreading, now seems like a good time to finally write it up. ![]()
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Water paint wall art9/1/2023 ![]() Start drawing lines with each color in each extreme of your sheet and work your way through the middle using the same technique of building up colors. Gradients: similar to layering in concept, gradients by definition involve mixing two colors. First, draw a line with a wet brush with almost no paint, then rinse and dry your brush before wetting it, and add a bit more paint to achieve a darker hue next to the lighter one you have recently painted, keep going until you reach the darkest hue of the color. Layering: this technique consists in building up color starting with a dry surface. Wet on wet: if you want to achieve a soft or “washed” color, grab a wet brush and “paint” a section of the paper with water, then add color with a wet brush with paint either sliding it or dabbing with it on the sheet. ![]() These are 5 watercolor painting techniques all beginners should try: If you want to begin painting with watercolor there are several techniques that can help you exercise this skill and achieve different results in your paints. 5 watercolor techniques to start painting Practice makes perfect: there are different techniques and exercises to master painting with watercolors. ![]() When a watercolor paint is in contact with water it “thins” and dissolves making it possible to spread it with a brush. And this word tells us a lot about how this type of paint works.įrom the basic watercolor set you used in middle school, to top-notch watercolor pallets, they all have something in common: they are made out of pigments mixed with a water-soluble vehicle. Watercolors are also known as aquarelle, and it is clear to the eye that this type of paint is directly related to one thing: water. Understanding watercolor paints for beginners Watercolor paints have a distinctive characteristic: understanding how the pigment interacts with water is essential to working with them. Watercolor pencils (they activate with water) are also available in the market.īesides these basic tools, you’ll need separate jars of water, towels or paper for drying, and masking tape. You don’t need every existing color because paints can be mixed to achieve different hues and shades, but it is a good idea to invest in high-quality paints even if the palette is limited. Paints: watercolor paints can be found in tubes and in pans. But of course, this gives it an extra texture: the paper can be cold or hot pressed to offer little to no texture and a “sharper” result in the drawing. The more the paper has, the more absorbent it is. Watercolor paper is easy to recognize because it has cotton intertwined in its fibers and it has a texture of bumps known as “teeth”. Watercolor paper has a weight of 140lb/300g (thicker than the usual drawing sheets). Paper: common drawing paper won’t absorb water and will probably warp under it. Brushes: don’t go crazy, to begin painting with watercolors you’ll only need a set of round brushes (the shape is good to hold water), a flat brush to work large areas, and a thin brush for lines and small details. These are the essential tools to begin painting with watercolors: It might seem obvious to mention that you need brushes, paper, and, of course, paints, but for this particular type of paint you need a particular set of tools. What to do with your watercolor paintingsīefore you jump into painting with watercolors, you need the right supplies.5 watercolor techniques to start painting.Understanding watercolor paints for beginners.Basic supplies to paint with watercolors.See lesson M07 Oceans & Lakes for more explanation of how to paint water, and for a neat trick you can use when painting outdoors to get this gradation accurate. But if you don’t do it, your water will look more like a wall, than a horizontal body of water. The value change is actually very very small. The water is darker close to you, and gets progressively lighter the further the water is from you. It is this variation that creates depth in the seascape and that gives you a feeling that it is a body of water extending into the distance. On the other hand, If you look at a monochrome version of my painting below, you will see there is a variation in the value. You can see in the student painting that the value of the water is virtually constant from the bottom to the top. ![]() In order to see the problem it is best to convert the image to monochrome (image on right). The thing students often miss when learning how to paint water is the value change in the water as the water gets further away from you. It looks more like a vertical wall than a flat body of water. The end result is a lake or ocean that just doesn’t look right. When you are painting a body of water there is one thing that most beginners miss. ![]() |