Learning by making: It's All fun and Games
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Learning by making: It's All fun and Games
- 2. Games in the Classroom • Make Your Own Games • Use serious or commercial games • Let students to build their own games
- 3. Commercial Off The Shelf games in the classroom COTS
- 4. Learn with Portals Physics and Critical Thinking http://www.learnwithportals.com/
- 6. COTS: Practicalities 1.Teacher owned copy for playing on screen 2.Students each purchase their own copy 3.Have library copies that they can check out
- 8. A Selection of titles Layoff Game http://www.tiltfactor.org/play-layoff Pox and the City http://scholarworks.rit.edu/jih/vol1/iss1/5/ Darfur is Dying http://www.darfurisdying.com/ History of Biology http://www.spongelab.com/game_pages/hob.cfm High Tea http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whatson/exhibitions/high-society/high-tea.aspx
- 10. Free Game templates and Ideas http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ms games.htm https://www.superteachertools.net/jeo pardyx/ http://www.edtechnetwork.com/power point.html http://www.classtools.net/ http://classroom-aid.com/educationalresources/play-and-learn/gamebuilding/
- 11. Students as Game Designers LEARNING BY BUILDING
- 12. BASICs Focus on Process Not the product Research Educational Goals and Outcomes Practicalities Platform/technology Art work Narrative and text elements Game Mechanics and art
- 13. Examples Review Trivia Game • • • Divide students into teams Each team makes up Trivia questions to try to stump the other team Open book/notes Discussion, Research and Reflection Create a design document • • • • Require bibliography and references Student teams? Give plenty of time in class to work on project Teams present game ideas to the class for critique
- 14. Back to YOU! Design your game exercise • General Topic • Assignment parameters • Educational content (what will they build?) • Platform or tools (how will they build it) • Time frame • Assessment • Discussions • Critiques (important to give feedback during the process) • Final project
- 15. Step 1 • Pick your topic • Educational goals (one or two) • What do you want students to learn?
- 16. Intersections Narrative (dramatic elements) Mechanics/formal (what will players do?) Agency (how much choice will players have?) Educational Goals: tie everything together Example: Layoff Game http://www.tiltfactor.org/play-layoff
- 18. Example: Chemistry Create a design and paper prototype for a game about: Organic chemical reactions The history of organic chemistry Why organic chemistry is important in everyday life Organic chemistry • • • •
- 19. Step 2: Refine topic Define audience Or not you can require students to specify
- 21. Tools of the trade Paper and pen Role playing Powerpoint presentations Design documents (Word) Interactive Tools Twine StoryNexus VaryTale Game builders Game Maker RPG Maker
- 22. Resources Game Maker https://www.yoyogames.com/studio Twine http://twinery.org/ VaryTale http://varytale.com/books/ Story Nexus http://www.storynexus.com/s How to Write a Game Design Doc http://www.stemchallenge.org/students /game-design-documents/
- 23. Step 3 Decide on format What will students build/deliver? Design document or treatment? Prototype and presentation? Document + prototype? What components MUST they include? Examples: Educational goals Research/references/bibliographies
- 25. Example Rubric • Theme/thematic statement: 10 • Equivalent of educational goal • Narrative elements: 35 • Narrative Treatment: 30 • Research and Analysis: 25 Example guidelines http://www.slideshare.net/ElizabethGoins/anim e-final
- 26. Step 4 Sketch out guidelines and rubric • Make sure students know what is important to you • Important to give feedback during the process • Critiques and presentations Questions to ask How does this (mechanic, character, etc) help me understand your educational goal or add to my knowledge? •
Editor's Notes
- Civilization series (history)
- http://www.surgeonsimulator2013.com/
- These games are often free