Gaming



Starter Activity - [|Magic Pen] (Would be great with an IWB) =Using Gaming in the Classroom=
 * === Why would we use Games in the classroom? ===
 * === What value is there in students constructing games? ===
 * === What learning can be gained? ===
 * === Where could it fit within the NZC? ===
 * === Any links for numeracy and literacy? ===
 * === How would you identify the learning that has taken place? ===

Software
Gamemaker pc http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/ Scratch mac/pc http://scratch.mit.edu/ Keynote and PPT for curric based learning games Excel Blender http://www.blender.org/ Bryce 5.5 [|Free] Cube 2 http://sauerbraten.org/ Alice http://www.alice.org/ OSX - Demo of [|Power Game Factory] Eclipse http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/index.php

Gamemaker for OSX is under development http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=817

Ask them to take a piece of history or something from their learning and create a game around it.

Links to Online Games eg sims etc

[|Dave Kilnane]

[|Mark Prensky Wirtind on Games and Digital Learning]

Links [|Games Based Learning Conference] [|Classroom Gaming Discussion] [|GameMaker AU Resources] http://www.edutopia.org/let-games-begin http://gamingtheclassroom.wordpress.com/ http://chronicle.com/blogPost/At-Indiana-U-a-Class-on-Game/21981/ http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/06/technology/games_change.fortune/index.htm [|Video Games in the Classroom] http://iteachonline.vit.vic.edu.au/issue0108/0.php http://spotlight.macfound.org/btr/entry/quest_atlantis [|Using Civilization] http://historytech.wordpress.com/ [|Gaming can teach Schools] [|Video Games replace Textbook]

[|Example from BVA] Video - Nintendo DS (watch whole vid!!)

Commercial http://www.stagecast.com/ http://www.clickteam.com/website/usa/ Note: this company has an option for converting to Flash for the web!! http://www.thegamecreators.com/ OSX http://alstaffieri.com/gamemaker.html#order

[|The Games Show - in the Classroom] [|On Making Games generally] (good background) Other? http://www.shambles.net/games/ http://www.adventuremaker.com/ untried http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html
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