Looking at the use of games in teaching
My interest in the interactive fiction platform Quest continues to provide highlights of my working week a couple of students pursue their interest in the platform. However, with quest outside my curriculum teaching and strategic responsibilities I have not …
Games continue to offer education a rich learning experience. The diversity and application of the many educational and commercial games is cleverly presented in this infographic as well as the culture gulf between ‘teacher’ and learner. I hope its proved …
From text based, to graphic adventure games, to action adventure and role play games RPGs. There really is a lot of gaming content and genre to explore. To date I have really enjoyed text based adventures because I get to …
I am not sure what the ‘playing’ aspect added in terms of quality of gameplay.. There are positives, its another medium to engage with the character, however that engagement (in these early style games) is moderate and there is no …
3DGameLab Quest Task So this Quest uses Jane McGonigal Tedtalk to get ‘us’ as learners to think about games and education, and now, I am looking for educations version of the epic win. Oh, and by the way, for life’s …
With a little help from Aviary I created this response to the Quest. I just wanted a valid reason to use Myna and as iPadio are working out the bugs in their revised iPhone app (great support by the way), …
With 3DGameLab there are opportunities to take other courses. I have subscribed to three more. The first I am questing / playing is ‘Context and Culture of Gaming – The art of play is alive and well. Learn how to …
I originally tweeted about Humble Bundle #3 when it was first released as it contained Crayon Physics, a game that I felt could be used within the curriculum. But the bundle just got even better. Let me explain…. Basically the …
