St. Edward's University Fall 2011 Educational Gaming Workshop
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The 2011 St. Edward's University workshop on Educational Gaming, by Jason Rosenblum. This workshop is designed to offer a hands-on opportunity to explore educational games through play. Games and game authoring platforms are presented.
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- 1. 2011 Fall Ed. Gaming Workshop By: Jason Rosenblum Twitter: @jarosenblum jasonr@stedwards.edu Presentation @ http://slidesha.re/rQBHCj
- 2. Games & Platforms Available Global Social Real Lives Evoke Problems Fate of the World of Peacemaker World Warcraft ARIS Games Mentira eRepublik
- 3. Fate of the World • Designed to heighten awareness of systemic effects of environmental, political, and cultural choices on climate change. • Role play leader of a fictitious global environmental organization • Mission-based, progressive difficulty • Resource management and policy decisions • http://fateoftheworld.net/
- 4. Real Lives From : http://www.educationalsimulations.com/
- 5. Real Lives • Real play by immersion. Experiential learning through role play. • Build the life of a character and live that life making decisions and reaping the results of those decisions. • http://www.educationalsimulations.com • Database contains 200 indicators in over 4000 locations in 192 countries across the globe • Stats from the WHO, Index Mundi, census data with job information by region.
- 6. Superhero Gaming to offer challenge- based approach to tackle serious social issues. http://www.urgentevoke.com
- 7. Global Social Problems • Local Action & Social Networks for Change • Undergrad Cultural Foundations course • Uses superhero gaming strategies & challenge-based learning approach. • Inspired by McGonigal’s idea of gameful action and her ARG, Evoke. • http://academic.stedwards.edu/globalsocialproblems
- 8. Peacemaker • Simulation goal: to make decisions that will lead to Mideast peace • Role play Mideast leadership roles • Must balance complex social & political forces • http://www.peacemakergame.com • http://vimeo.com/17001067
- 9. Balance of Power : Storytron • Text-based interactive fiction - can create custom stories • Balance of Power - a post 9/11 policy game • http://www.storytron.com/play-bop2k-launch.php • Interactive Storytelling by Storytron • http://www.storytron.com/index.php
- 10. eRepublik • Web-based strategy game • http://www.erepublik.com/en • Their Tagline: “What if the financial crisis REALLY goes bad?”
- 11. World of Warcraft • Can be used for Spanish Language immersion. Also see the MIT Education Arcade write-up • English & Spanish speaking Realms • Characters can’t cross over Realms • Free version is limited • Playing together in WoW • Game: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/?-
- 12. ARIS Mobile Games • Free Mobile Game authoring for iOS devices • Location-based games • Language learning, storytelling, Quest-based events, go-collect-learn-solve activities • http://arisgames.org/ • Lots of educational games - anyone can create
- 13. Mentira • Spanish Language Learning using ARIS • Designed by University of New Mexico: Chris Holden • http://arisgames.org/featured/mentira/ • http://mentira.org
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