Games in the K-12 Classroom
For activities in the game-based learning course, plus more links and resources, go to Texas Games Network at http://texasgames.net Create an account and go to Sue Summerford's GBL or feel free to explore Amanda's other open forums and courses. (email: sue.summerford@lisd.us Enrollment Key: SUMGBL06) Special thanks to Amanda Hefner for her dedication to supporting teachers and students interested in gaming in the K-12 classroom with this wonderful Moodle site full of online resources!
LINK TO MACUL 2008 HANDOUTS: http://lisd.us/edtech/web/MACUL2008/macul_2008_presentation_handouts.htm
GETTING STARTED
Go to Mindtools - see Game Unit - http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/default.htm
Start with this Introduction to GameMaker: http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker/intro.htm - read the article and test your knowledge!
Designing Your Own Game
Four Game Creation Applications To Try in the Classroom
***GameMaker 7.0 - free download to get started - tutorials here for other game projects
Price for full-version: 10-seat license US $100/ 30-seat license $US 230
***The Games Factory 2 (Clickteam)
$59 one CD/license - educational discount available if you contact them; also purchase Multimedia Fusion 2 for enhanced capabilities
***Stagecast Creator 2 - try the evaluation version & tutorial first
Education Pricing: $99.95 - Two-License Package; $269.96 Six-User Lab Pack; $775 25-user package
***Klik & Play Home for Schools
Stagecast Creator Resources for Kids: http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/mac/stagecast.html
For More Advanced Game Creators:
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (.NET for Windows & Xbox 360 console)
see the texasgames.net site for more links to advanced gaming resources
Gaming Links
Games Students Play by Carl Vogel (District Administration, May 2007, pp. 43-46)
Schoolgamemaker - extensive list of lesson plans, game programming resources and gaming examples
http://www.freewebs.com/schoolgamemaker/
The History of Video Games http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/
Warlick's CoLearners Wiki - Video Games as Learning Engines - see slideshare, links - see Orange County video!
http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.VideoGamesAsLearningEngines
You Don't Have To Be A Gamer - David Warlick
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/12/11/you-dont-have-to-be-a-gamer/
Designing Your Games on Paper First - Make-Video-Games.com
Gaming in Education - Muzzy Lane Software -
http://www.muzzylane.com
Game Institute - http://www.gameinstitute.com
Blizzard Entertainment Inc. - http://www.blizzard.com
Multicultural Education Through Miniatures - USF - http://www.coedu.usf.edu/Culture/activity.htm
Another gaming site: http://208.183.128.3/tutorials/PPT-games/
K-2 Online Games & Activities
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech163.shtml
K-2 "NOT" Games
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech195.shtml
PlayingtoLearn.org - see additional gaming links at http://playingtolearn.org/links.html
Game Unit (Australia) http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/games/for_teachers.htm "Switched On - game unit"
Sonic Hedgehog Education Pack from Australian Centre for the Moving Image
http://www.acmi.net.au/global/docs/sonic_education_pack.pdf
AlUptonPowerPoint-ScreenIt
http://cmslive.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/Workshop_9_ScreenIt_HowGameMaker_AlUpton.pdf
Leeroy Jenkins Videos Homepage - World of Warcraft
http://www.leeroyjenkins.net/leeroy-jenkins-videos.htm
AlUpton Blog - Learning
http://alupton.wordpress.com/learning/
Al Upton Blog - Game Maker Links
http://alupton.wordpress.com/learning/game-maker/
Online Games
BEEweb - www.beeweb.org - Brandeis University researchers have develped a breakthrough educational technology called BEEweb. Each website hosts a basic-skills Multi-player game which employes a new incentive called the "Teacher's Dilemma." As kids play the video game, they become focused and passionate about the task and are motivated to assess and challenge their online partner appropriately. The entire network of learners becomes a Peer-to-Peer scaleable network providing one human teacher per child, for the same price as a Skype phone call. Learn more about Spell bee, Money bee, PatternBee and Geograbee at www.beeweb.org Sign up as a teachers and enroll your students to play online.
Brandeis University - Good News . . . BEEweb article
K-3 Favorite Games
http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604471
Programming Resources
Squeak is a free, open-source, object-oriented, multimedia, play-oriented authoring environment that runs on many platforms and can be used to construct active learning environments for all ages. Programs can be written in the Squeak environment by novices using graphical programming tiles or by experts using Smalltalk. Developers around the world are continually adding functionality to the open source Squeak image. Everything in the Squeak world is an object. Each object has properties and can send messages to other objects. The objects are like actors on a stage. Each object can be imbued with actions that create interactive experiences for learners and authoring is always on. Squeak is the basis for many new collaborative programming environments and exciting developments. It is free for you to use and you are limited only by your imagination.
Squeak can be downloaded at http://www.squeakland.org
Scratch is written in Squeak for middle school students. Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.
Scratch can be downloaded at http://scratch.mit.edu/
Tammy & Jay's Scratch Workshop Video - .wmv
http://scratch.mit.edu/files/videos/scratch-workshop-sm.wmv
Scratc Tutorials from Christopher Michaud, Nebo Elem. School
http://www.nebomusic.net/scratch.html
Alice - The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students. Alice v2.0 is the next major version of the Alice 3D Authoring system, from the Stage3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. It has been completely rewritten from scratch over the past few years. Version 3 is in development teaming up Alice with characters from The Sims 2. Watch this exciting version to hit the web!
Alice (free, easy, interactive 3D graphics for the web) can be downloaded at http://www.alice.org
View Alice demo video (Flash) at http://www.alice.org/Alice_movies/ to see the basics of what you can do with Alice.
Recommendation from Ann Dunn, Tecumseh Middle School:
Another program that I use with students is call Pivot Stick Animation. It is another free game that can be downloaded and when the students have 5 minutes at the end of class, they love to create simple animations. Students even make their own backgrounds in Paint and import them to the program. There is a web site called droidz.org where students can get additional characters. Lots of students have downloaded this game to their home computer. I much prefer to see students creating rather than reacting to a video game.
Documents with Excel Activities
Excel - Creating Self-Correcting Worksheets Techtorial - Math early el - can be used for all - print out plus online techtorial
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial104.shtml
Excel Self-Correcting Worksheet (If/Then)
Creating a Self-Correcting Worksheet with Clear Button
Directions for Creating a Clear Button
Spreadsheet, Database, More Excel Links (How-To's/Gaming)
http://www.edtechoutreach.umd.edu/HowTo/excel.html#gaming
Kathy Adkins - To Excel in the Classroom is Elementary
http://www.forsythcountyschools.org/kadkins/spreadsheet.htm
101 Fun & Relevant Ways to Use Spreadsheets in the Classroom - Dr. Alice Christie
http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/CTC/spreadsheets.html
Excel Games (includes Bejeweled, Battleship and more - VBA programs in Excel)
http://www.excelgames.org/bejeweled.asp
Create a Crossword Puzzle in Microsoft Excel
http://www.microsoft.com/education/Crossword.mspx
Fun with Excel
http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/fun-with-excel.html
Excel - Creating Self-Correcting Worksheets - Techtorial - Math early el - can be used for all - print out plus techtorial
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial104.shtml
EXCEL-Lent Activities Across the Grades - many content areas
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial010.pdf
Excel Drag & Drop Language Arts Activities (follow link at bottom of site)
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_language_arts.htm
Games/PowerPoint Templates
Jeff Ertzberger's Game Templates & Utilities - see PowerPoint digital timer - the coolest!
See PowerPoint games, review & rubrics at Kenton page:
Maximizing PowerPoint
http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/max/Maxpowerpt.htm
How To: PowerPoint eBooks
Parade of Games - PowerPoint Templates
Talking Story Books - Priory Woods School
Game Board Templates - Creating Game Cards in MS Word
Game Resources - Jeopardy Templates
Homemade PowerPoint Games/Templates - wwild
The Interactive Classroom - Interactivity and Gaming
Book Resources
(available from Amazon)
The Game Maker's Apprentice - Game Development for Beginners - by Jacob Habgood and Mark OVermars $39.99 (apress.com)
Basic Game Design and Creation for Fun & Learning (GameMaker) - by Nanu Swamy and Naveena Swamy $39.95 (Charles River Media)
Make Amazing Games in Minutes (The Games Factory 2) - Jason Darby $39.95 (Charles River Media)
from Clickteam with purchase: An Introduction to Multimedia Fusion 2 - Lessons to Create 2D Games - by Karen Hult and Terry Byfield - comes with The Games Factory 2 (Published by Clickteam)
Educational Game Resources (listed by Carl Vogel, May 2007 District Administration - "Games Students Play:)
Civilizationwww.civ3.com
Epistemic Gameswww.epistemicgames.org
Food Forcewww.food-force.com
Making Historywww.muzzylane.com
MIT's Education Arcadewww.educationarcade.org
Orange County Department ofwww.vc.ocde.us/archive
Education Webcast
Rollercoaster Tycoonrollercoastertycoonwww.siia.net/education
The Simswww.thesims.ea.com
WILL Interactivewww.willinteractive.com
Zoo Tycoonzootycoon.comwww.atari.com/
Software & Information Industry
Association Education Division
Local Resources
Camadro, Inc. (parent company of FreeArcade, located in Tecumseh - Kevin Derby, CEO
508 Mohawk St. Tecumseh, Michigan P: 517-423-0523 F: 517-423-7018
http://www.camadro.com/
Virtual Environments Other Than Second Life
OpenCroquet.org
http://opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page
Metaverse (LivingArchives.ca)
metaverse.sourceforge.net
Open Habitat.org (Open Sim - Dave Cormier's group)
OpenHabitat.org
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