Clockwise from the top -Magnavoz game console, a light gun, game cartridges, SIMON
The Father of Video Games
In 2006 Ralph H. Baer was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States for his “groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialisation of interactive video games”. In fact many believe he invented the [...]
THE GAME
Whitesmoke is an online free to play Alternate Reality Game (ARG). Commissioned by Channel 4 Education and aimed at teens, Whitesmoke hopes to educate by providing a personal taster (through a fictional game) of what it would be like to experience some of the dangers of social networking.
WEBSITE SCREENSHOT
INTERESTED?
Read more about this ARG [...]
Level: Upper intermediate/ Advanced
Topic: Sci -fi
Language skill: Reading
Game: Morningstar
When your spaceship ‘Morningstar’ mysteriously crashes on an alien planet you have to help an injured crew member, escape from the ship, explore a planet to look for supplies to repair your ship and finally take off and get away.
Screenshot from ‘Morningstar’
This is a great game for [...]
A computer room reading activity for individual or pair work.
Level: Upper Intermediate & above (adults)
Topic: Crime (Solve a murder)
Language Focus: Understanding Language in Context
Time: Computer room + homework to finish (1 hour to complete)
Game: Crime & Investigation
Preparation
A There is an in-game toolbar that you need to make learners aware of before they [...]
Level: Advanced
Topic: Border Country
Speaking Focus: Expressing opinions
Time: 30 – 45 minutes
Game: Against all odds
Preparation
You also need to go through a few steps after entering the site before you can get to play the game. The steps are:
1) Click on Open in full screen.
2) Click on Play against all odds.
3) Choose your game characters [...]
Later today (early tomorrow in some parts of the world), there’ll be an interesting opportunity to join James Paul Gee who’ll be in conversation with Steve Hargadon and Ed Hill about Video Games, Learning and Literacy.
photo by Preoccupations
Event: More Details are here
Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT [...]
Level: Pre-intermediate
Time: 30 minutes
Preparation: Just before the class goes into the computer room open up two internet explorer windows. On one window get the game ‘Hamster rescue’ ready so it’s ready to start. In the other window open up a copy of the annotated walkthrough. Be prepared to show the class the opening screenshot of [...]