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This is a superb environmental game which is reminiscent of the early SimCity games. Build a wonderful town, manage your fossil fuels wisely and keep the inhabitants happy. A free sign up is required. ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

A superb maths game set in a vast magical world, reminiscent of the early Final Fantasy games. Complete the challenges and battle with monsters by answering maths questions. There is a teacher's dashboard so you can set up and track the progress of your students. Questions are age appropriate and adapt to the ability of the child to keep them moving on.

Flash games make it easy for teachers teaching keyboarding to prepare their typing lessons for their keyboarding classes. Kids' typing speed and accuracy on the QWERTY keyboard increases quickly thanks to educational games that kids enjoy playing.

Lots of games, activities, and interactives that work well with Interactive Whiteboards. Grouped by subject area, ability level, and finally specific disciplines within a content area, these websites would be great as review games, or ways to check for progress and understanding in the middle of a unit.

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running. Not interested in building your own jeopardy templates? Well that's cool too. You can browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It doesn't get any better than this! via Jennifer Dorman http://groups.diigo.com/discovery-educator-network/bookmark/cliotech

Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

Simple Jeopardy game builder.

different variations of interactive game templates with sound

interactive activities, over 400!

Games that can save the world and gaming skillsets too....see Jane McGonical link inside.

Ribbon Hero is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010, designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. Play games (aka "challenges"), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office

Online Games for children filtered by (USA?) librarians

MathMovesU is an innovative program sponsored by Raytheon designed to engage middle-school students with math. MathMovesU.com features content that appeals to things they are most passionate about, such as sports, music, and fashion, while delivering math subject matter in engaging ways, like games, polls, and fun math facts. Play math games, win prizes, and more!

Serious Games and the Study of Society

"Students who are passionate gamers can talk a blue streak about the virtual online worlds where they invest their free time and energy. Usually, of course, they get to play only when they're not at school. But why not bring gaming into the classroom? Could teachers tap that same passion to spark learning?"

Persuasive game about, er, persuasion

Vocab Genii is a new site offering challenging vocabulary games. The basic purpose of Vocab Genii is to offer games that require players to unscramble letters to create a word that matches the definition provided.

Games lab focussed on socially responsible game design for social change.

"I've written extensively about how I use online video games with English Language Learners. They're great language-development activities when students play them by following "walkthroughs" (instructions on how to "win"). Here are four new ones, along with their walkthroughs:"

An infographic on educational games.

Learning and game-play collide in Conspiracy Code, the first in a revolutionary new series of courses. An innovative, complete online class, Conspiracy Code engages students in interactive learning while maintaining all the engagement of a high-quality entertainment product. All Conspiracy Code courses are teacher-supervised, academically-viable, complete classes that fuse the best of online gaming with proven pedagogical techniques and standards to produce a truly unique learning environment for high school students.