Let's Build an Open Collaborative
Repository of Historical Games
Presented at the American Association
Trevor Owens
for History and Computing’s
playinghistory.org and trevorowens.org
Annual Conference, April 4th, 2009
Trevor.johnowens@gmail.com

PRETEND THIS IS FIVE SLIDES ABOUT WHY YOU
SHOULD CARE ABOUT GAMES AND EDUCATION...
GOOD, NOW LETS MOVE ON

EVERYBODY IS MAKING FREE HISTORY GAMES

SOME ARE VERY NEAT

OTHERS, NOT SO MUCH…

FAIL
SO HOW DO WE FIND THEM?

AND WHEN WE FIND THEM THEN WHAT??

HOW DO THESE GAMES CONNECT TO TEACHERS NEEDS?
HOW DO THE GAMES ARGUMENTS WORK WITH AND
AGAINST OTHER PRESENTATIONS OF HISTORICAL
CONTENT?

THIS ONES EASY! WE CAN SOLVE IT!

1. LETS CATALOG THEM

2. RATE AND REVIEW THEM

THE HISTORIANS CAN MUSE ABOUT HISTORICITY

TEACHERS CAN TALK ABOUT TEACHABILITY,

WHILE STUDENTS PLAY GAMES
AND CRITIQUE THEIR ARGUMENTS

SO REGISTER,
AND LETS GET
STARTED!