Over the next week I hope to post up my thoughts, presentation slides and reflections from this years Scottish Learning Festival.
To start with here are my presentation slides and links from my session on Computer Games Based learning in Secondary Schools
The links that I referred
to in my presentation are as follows:
- Wordle – Create fantastic Word Clouds to brighten
up your lessons and also analise important documents.
Some examples of web
based games that can be used for home learning:
- Classic
Sim City – Useful for teaching about towns, cities and settlement.
- Ordnance
Survey Map Games – Good for homework.
- Fantasy Famer – Manage a farm for a year
- Stop Disasters Simulator – Can you protect the world
against floods, volcanoes, earthquakes and other nasty stuff?
- Sim
Sweat Shop – What is it really like working in a sweat shop in a less
economically developed country?
- An idea for
setting web based games for homework
activities
Games Based
Learning to help Transition between Primary to Secondary Education:
- The
Musselburgh Grammar School Guitar Hero Transition Project – Background
Information and Timeline
- MGS
Guitar Hero Transition Project – Part Two: The Virtual Battle of the Bands
- Guitar
Hero Showcase: I love it when a plan comes together!
- Musselburgh
Guitar Hero Project Features in the Times Educational Supplement
- Cluster
Project that plays to all talents.
- SLF
2008: Enriched Assessment for Enriched Enquiry
In
East Lothian we are rolled out this project to all P7 classes across
the county. The 2009 version of the project will used Guitar Hero World
Tour for the XBox. World Tour is particularly good as there is more
than one instument, which provides more choise of students.
Partnership
with Parents:
- Internet
Safety and Responsible Use: How
to set family settings on games consoles
Some of the titles mentioned:
- Dr.
Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?
- Big Brain Academy
- My Word Coach
- Maths Training
- My French Coach
- Hotel Dusk - A good narative driven game to encorage reading and provide a context for other work
- Nintendogs - A great game to provide a context for learning (Aberdeenshire have been doing some fantastic work using this game in P2)
- Drawn to Life - Being used in P3 to develop writing and storytelling skills
The Use of the Sony PSP
Lots of good information on how the PSP can be used for education on the ConnectEd website. Hot Brain for the PSP is a similar to lots of the Brain Training title you can get for the DS.
Also have a look at SUMS Online - they make great software for computers and other handheld devicces includeing the PSP.
Storage
Solutions for Games Consoles
ConnectEd have made a fantastic storage solution for the PSP – hopefully they will also soon have one on the market for the Nintendo DS.
The Use of the Nintendo Wii
Some of the titles mentioned:
- Big Brain
Academy: Wii Degree (currently being used in SfL)
- Endless Ocean (A great game to provide a context
for learning)
- Wii Sports
- Mario and Sonic at the Olympics (A great game to provide a context for learning)
- Dancing Stage
- My French Coach
- Mission
Maker
- 2Simple DIY is also an excellent game for encouraging games Design in the early years. (you can see my efforts here)
- Wii Sports
- Dance Mats (Zig Zag Dance Mats)
- EA Active Sports







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