The Hero's Journey: World of Warcraft Goes To The Classroom

The Hero’s Journey WoWinSchool Goes To The Classroom

Lucas Gillispie Instructional Technology Coordinator Pender County Schools Burgaw, North Carolina On Twitter: @PCSTech www.edurealms.com

Craig Lawson Middle Grades Language Arts Cape Fear Middle School @MIDlawsonDLE Peggy Sheehy Media Specialist Suffern Middle School @peggysheehy

Where We’ve Been

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program More Appeal For At-Risk White Males?

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program More Appeal For At-Risk White Males? Students Running To The Media Center After School

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program More Appeal For At-Risk White Males? Students Running To The Media Center After School Pros/Cons For After-School Club Format

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program More Appeal For At-Risk White Males? Students Running To The Media Center After School Pros/Cons For After-School Club Format The Pedagogical Ninja

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program More Appeal For At-Risk White Males? Students Running To The Media Center After School Pros/Cons For After-School Club Format The Pedagogical Ninja Improved School Attendance

Some Early Turnover - Competing After-School Program More Appeal For At-Risk White Males? Students Running To The Media Center After School Pros/Cons For After-School Club Format The Pedagogical Ninja Improved School Attendance Leverage

Meet “The Legacy”

Pwnership

You Never Know...

Fan Fiction

Fan Fiction Holiadore. It is a name of honor and pride. He has not yet lived up to the dream, but this night elf will train and train in the ways of the druid until he achieves his ultimate goal- to be as good as his father. His father never had pride in him so Holiadore ran away from home as a child and has practiced the ways of the druid ever since. He uses the skins of his foes to craft armor to use against stronger foes. He goes through many perils to do the bidding of the townspeople. He, in doing so, trains his abilities until they can increase no more. And when he reaches his ultimate goal, he will return to the place where he was raised, the place that, once, his family lived. And he will place flowers upon his father's grave, and continue in his practices. This is the story of Holiadore.

A Guild Web Page

Guild Ofﬁcer Elections

Gnomish Flash Mob

Where We’re Going

The Classroom! http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mike52ad/4676429386/

Design... http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/amyjaneb/3441694479/

Hybrid Course Freely Available Paperless Granular Portable

Aligned To Common Core Standards http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3911529343/

The Approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heroesjourney.svg

Students As Heroes

Parallel Reading http://www.infoaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/www.blogcdn.com/www.moviefone.com/insidemovies/media/2009/06/hobbit-book-cover.jpg

Reﬂection On Life Experiences

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nik_doof/3710027084/

Teachers?

Lore Keepers!

Grades http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/8587222@N08/3492052267/

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/8587222@N08/3492052267/

Experience Points (XP) http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/8587222@N08/3492052267/

A Few Student Projects

Character Tweets

Search Fakebook Pages Home Profile Inbox Friends Settings Logout Rhak’zor last online via @spedteacher 10hrs ago Wall Info Photos Boxes Ads What’s happening now? Share View photos We Open Chests! View videos Rhak’zor I just became the mayor of Information Deadmines on @foursquare! Rats? Home: Deadmines, Westfall Relationship: Lookin’ 4 Love Political Views: Stormwind Sux Rhak’zor > Edwin VanCleef You know, “Edwin” is not a very scary name. Sucks you’d have to go to SW to get it changed. LOL Groups Friends Defias Brotherhood Cookie Dude, some chumps from SW just knocked me out and took my rolling pin! Edwin Sneed Cookie VanCleef Older posts

Pecha Kucha/Ignite Presentations http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/bakoko/3770857634/

Machinima

wowinschool.pbworks.com @wowinschool

Wanna Play?

Yes, Teachers Play WoW!

A Support Group Awaits! Cognitive Dissonance Guild Catherine Parsons @vgloucester

Lucas Gillispie www.edurealms.com

Questions?

Resource Slides

Violence? http://www.flickr.com/photos/sstask/4301554543/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/adobemac/257265824 http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualsugar/4084743369/

Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked Henry Jenkins

WoW: BattleChest - $29.99 x # of accounts 60-Day Subscription Card - $29.99 x # of accounts x # of months GameCom Headset - $29.99 x # of students Costs

Network Impact 1 = Login 2 = Entering Ironforge 3 = Logout/Background Downloader

Hardware Dell OptiPlex 360 3 Gig RAM Integrated Intel Graphics Game Performance: 14-30 FPS 84 Latency

http://wowinschool.pbworks.com	371
http://gamingforlearning.wikispaces.com	89
http://edurealms.com	61
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The Hero's Journey: World of Warcraft Goes To The Classroom

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