Makes Tagged "games"

For the Games Week, we created a collaborative Jeopardy game. Jeopardy Labs‘ version keeps track of the score once the user/host determines whether a player’s answer is correct.

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CLMOOC 2014 Make Cycle #3 is all about games. And the games we are considering are ones taken from the widest continuum imaginable: childhood games, board games, made up games, online games, World Cup games and the greatest meta-game of all—telling stories about games. Games and gaming have burst into the learner zeitgeist over the last several years marked by the coining of the term “gamification” in education circles. Game sales are bigger than movie box office revenue worldwide. Game apps can create overnight millionaires. But games are also intimate and unconcerned with big bucks. Often they are about narrative…. Read more »

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A five minute on lesson the Karuk Fish Spear, a three step figure I usually use as the first thing to teach to young kids. It’s a hack in the sense that’s it’s on YouTube, not in person, and is also an excerpt from a Teachers Teaching Teachers session I asked for after the wonderful session Paul led on Mine Craft, which got me thinking that I should add this meat space game I love so much to cyber space. And it’s a #toyhack in the sense that string is one of The Five Greatest Toys of All Time.

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