Adventure Game Studio is a downloadable program that provides the tools to make your own adventure. The best part is that it is free. Educators can bring in their own story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest. AGS provides everything you need from within one easy-to-use application. Create, test and debug your game, all in one place.
Globaloria.com sparks students' imaginations as they learn to design and program their own educational games through a mix of teacher-led instruction, team-based learning and online networking with experts and peers.
Sandbox game-maker offers a free 3D game-making engine. A more advanced option for more ambitious game creators. This open source tool makes it easy for kids and adults to make their own games!
Mayer (2009), states "Learner-centered approaches offer an important alternative to technology-centered approaches. Learner-centered approaches begin with an understanding of how the human mind works and ask, "How can we adapt multimedia to enhance human learning?" The focus is on using multimedia technology as an aid to human cognition."
Each of the above-mentioned web sites offer a learner-centered approach as each is focused on how to use multimedia in order to teach children the necessary skills to meet today's academic standards.
Reference
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
Adventure Game Studio is a downloadable program that provides the tools to make your own adventure. The best part is that it is free. Educators can bring in their own story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest. AGS provides everything you need from within one easy-to-use application. Create, test and debug your game, all in one place.
http://globaloria.com/
Globaloria.com sparks students' imaginations as they learn to design and program their own educational games through a mix of teacher-led instruction, team-based learning and online networking with experts and peers.
http://www.sandboxgamemaker.com/
Sandbox game-maker offers a free 3D game-making engine. A more advanced option for more ambitious game creators. This open source tool makes it easy for kids and adults to make their own games!
Mayer (2009), states "Learner-centered approaches offer an important alternative to technology-centered approaches. Learner-centered approaches begin with an understanding of how the human mind works and ask, "How can we adapt multimedia to enhance human learning?" The focus is on using multimedia technology as an aid to human cognition."
Each of the above-mentioned web sites offer a learner-centered approach as each is focused on how to use multimedia in order to teach children the necessary skills to meet today's academic standards.
Reference
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge
University Press.