Ten Educational Gaming Sites… Formative Experiences For Elementary Core Learning
Welcome to another informative post dedicated to learning in the 21st century. I dedicate this post to a wonderful group of teachers I have in an on-line graduate level class in the state of Indiana. I have been learning so much from them as together we have studied technology integration in the elementary school. I decided to search cyberspace for some free games created to promote the core curricula in the elementary grades. What could be better than free computer games for elementary students? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Primary Games – As the site proclaims… “A fun place to learn”. Well, there you have it… ten educational gaming sites that promote formative learning experiences in the elementary years. Like this: Like Loading...
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World of Warcraft in the Classroom – GamingEdus
by Caleb Gillis (Third in a 3-part series on Games Based Learning written for GamingEdus) In my last post, I discussed how I used the video game “Portal 2” to enhance students’ ability to problem solve. After using the program for over a week, students showed improvement in their ability to take multiple steps to solve complex problems that were previously difficult. The idea to use “Portal” in the classroom was inspired from the successes of other teachers who have not only enhanced student learning, but also redefined how education could be taught to students. My main inspiration for using Portal in my placement came from Peggy Sheehy, a teacher from the United States, who developed an after-school program for students at risk of dropping out of school. The way WoW works is players begin by creating an avatar. The successes of this program has been shared on a database for any educator or school board who wish to use it and apply to their own classroom. Make schools exciting and fun
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A teacher's perspective on World of Warcraft in school - Classcraft Blog - Resource hub for schools and districts
When students get to play World of Warcraft in school, even the teacher is happy. Alfonso Gonzalez is a middle school science teacher at Chimacum Middle School in Washington. He’s taught grades 4-8 for 25 years. We spoke to Gonzalez about what’s it’s like to use WoWinSchool (read as “WoW in School”), a program created by Lucas Gillispie, the director of academic and digital learning for Surry County Schools in North Carolina. How did you find WoWinSchool, and what made you decide to use it? Alfonso Gonzalez: I was a WoW player. I never thought of it as something I would do with students in a school setting. How long have you been using it now? Gonzalez: This is my third or fourth year. So I got them all to create a character in World of Warcraft and start playing it, and they got to a certain level where they were free to go around and explore. So yeah, I didn’t repeat that that way. The discount for the WoW subscription? Gonzalez: Yeah, because it’s a subscription game. What happens next?
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We're still helping teachers get their game on. It's all just happening at: gamingedus.org. Jump on over and see what we're up to and how you can join us! Two Minecraft Servers, Endless Possibilities All servers are generously hosted by the EDGE Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto. Server #1: Professional Play Server The Professional Play server is for educators and their families to learn the game for themselves outside of school. This server is open to teachers and education workers who want to learn more about Minecraft or just have a fun, safe kid-friendly server to play on. This server is ideal for educators who: have never played Minecraft and want to learn in safe, fun environmenthave played Minecraft and want to connect with other educators want a safe, kid-friendly server for their families to play Minecraft Want to Join the Professional Learning Server? Just fill out the White List Request Form and you'll be playing and learning with us in no time. Server #2: More Stuff Inside:
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Controls Left click, hit the spacebar, or hit "enter" to advance the dialogue. You will be occasionally presented with choices or with a screen with selectable options. Left click on the desired option with the mouse, or use the "up" or "down" arrow to navigate your options, and hit "enter" to select. To skip lines of dialogue you have already seen when replaying the game, hold down the "Ctrl" button. You can use "mousewheel-Up" or "PageUp" to rollback the game. You can find a list of all of ZomBool's controls by clicking on "Help" in the main menu. Self-voiced mode Hit "v" on your keyboard to toggle self-voiced mode, which will read text aloud using a speech synthesizer (if supplied by your operating system in English or French). Self-voiced mode includes extra flavour text, spelling out Boolean search expressions for cases where speech synthesizers can miss nuances (such as the use of brackets and quotation marks), and signals whenever the game requires you to make a choice.
