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Pogo.com is one of the most popular game sites on the Internet. The site features Pogo online games, Club Pogo, and Pogo To Go downloadable games. The site is heavily supported by advertising but for a subscription fee to Club Pogo, you can have the ads removed. One stand out feature of the site is the awarding of cash prizes. Win a game or certain number of levels and you have a chance to win.

The goal of this site is to catalog the growing number of "serious games" (i.e. video and computer games whose primary purpose is something other than to entertain.) recommended by @CSouthard

Social gaming to learn about issues. Many are based on phone apps and traveling around NYC to find things. One is a basketball game that teaches about the deficit. recommended at edcamp

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh's life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer?

Created a game with levels to train people on BB9

Executive Command, Supreme Decision and Branches of power online games

Can you get school teachers to adopt an innovation? Play the Diffusion Simulation Game as many times as you like, and learn what it takes! Learn strategies that do and don't work in practice, and which are supported by empirical research.

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Key Takeaways For the actor, today's digital technology provides career and business support while - thanks to the increasing use of digital acting counterparts such as linear animation films, games, and virtual simulated performances - threatening the actor's livelihood. An intermediate acting class added digital technology to investigate how it might enhance character interpretation and explore whether it could play an integral part in the performance without becoming the performance. The acting instructor fostered creativity with traditional acting skills, while the technology expert provided tools and instruction in their use for students, with mixed success apparent in the final performances.

Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features - color search, instant scrolling, hover preview - are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer. Here are seven of our favorites.

Open educational resources (OER) are any resources available at little or no cost that can be used for teaching, learning, or research. The term can include textbooks, course readings, and other learning content; simulations, games, and other applications; syllabi, quizzes, and assessment tools; and virtually any other educational material. Open resources are issued under a license that spells out how they can be used: Some may only be used in their original form; in other cases, resources can be modified, remixed, and redistributed. OER expand the access to educational resources to more learners, more of the time, and they have the potential to spur pedagogical innovation, introducing new alternatives for effective teaching.

Here's a valuable set of resources for Health Sciences education: "60 public access virtual patient cases released under a Creative Commons licence for open use and reuse. Cases were created working with subject experts in workshops across the province. Using the open-source OpenLabyrinth platform the PINE project has a research and development theme investigating common simulation, gaming and narrative patterns in educational case design. This is facilitated by the use of the Vue topic mapping toolset that allows authors to create visual representations of activities and decision making processes."

Groupboard allows you to put multi-user tools, such as whiteboard, chat, message boards and games, into your web pages simply by pasting in a few lines of HTML code (alternatively you can access your Groupboard simply by clicking on the link we supply). Groupboard works on any browser which has Java or Ajax support, which includes Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, as well as iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android - no plugins or downloads required.

The Left Behind game and books: end of life scenarios thru Christian doctrine and violence. Tweeted by Pat Dolenc

Colleges no longer simply want to know what their students know, but how they think.

opensource LMS. Advantages touted are under-whelming: Open ed resources,for example, are avilalble thru any LMS. 

The thing I want to avoid is for people to walk away from this presentation with the view that if work sucks, you can just put the lipstick of points and badges and completion bars and leaderboards on and suddenly make work exciting. we can learn a number of things from games:

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Studymate by Respondus allows you to input terms once and get a number of study exercises from it.