Tag: Games/Gaming
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SimSchool
I’m prepping a presentation on SimSchool that I’ll be giving tomorrow and as impressed as I was with it at SITE 2006, I’m more so now that I’m starting to work with it a little more, it is becoming even more impressive in what it can do to help get those sticky classroom situations under…
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Way more Wii
I’ve just finished installing Opera on my Linux box and it’s far and away the best browser that I’ve used on the edunbuntu install that I have. Far better than the old Firefox 1.07 that I can’t seem to upgrade for the life of me. But while on the site, I’ve seen quite a few…
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Innovate Online – Accelerating Games
Jones and Kalinowski in their new article in Innovate Online suggest that as games today are having trouble penetrating the classroom because they can’t in many cases fit the explicit needs of the curriculum without modification or addition. To this end, they are proposing a community form to share learning objects that would help align…
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Learning done, time for fun
I just finished Prensky’s book this morning and I’m not moving on to A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster. I got this book at the same time as Don’t bother me… but now I’m more interested after comments made in Prensky’s book about IDs taking the fun out of games/learning. My nutshell review of…
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Spore Scores
Business Week that great gaming rag likes it so it must be good 😉 I hope I can somehow get to play it somewhere… Wii maybe??