Play-on: the boundaries between the real and virtual world have gone for kids, it's all just one big world of play. Now kids arrange play dates in the playground, swapping their penguin names to 'Play-on' after school in Club Penguin. The new friends functionality will allow kids to find their friends faster, teleporting them to their friends within Club Penguin, regardless of where they are playing from or what server they're on
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n order to introduce the concepts of the game to young children and really show off the educational value, Wizards of the Coast has released The Heroes of Hesiod, a free, stand-alone adventure with everything you need to play in a downloadable PDF. Anyone who has played D&D remembers the countless books you needed, the debating of the rules, and the general confusion that came with the open-ended game play. This made the learning curve steep and the age requirement high. The rules for The Heroes of Hesiod, however, are stripped down to the core and basic enough for its six-and-older age group. It takes about thirty minutes to play and, depending on what concepts you want to emphasize, can reinforce a variety of subjects from mathematics to leadership to creative thinking. Even if you've never played D&D you can easily play this with a group of kids. It requires no prior knowledge of the game whatsoever.
These theatrical scripts are available for each school to buy at $90 Australian.
Quote-"Our plays are varied in length and style, ranging from full-length plays to full-length musicals to mini-plays.
While the full-length plays and musicals address social and environmental issues, the mini-plays deal more with health and social issues.
Our plays are especially suitable for secondary and upper primary school performers and have broad audience appeal. Most plays incorporate original music as well as allowing for your own musical selections."
Discussion of why Generation X is inundating Second Life and why Gen Y is so underrepresented.
I will say that my students LOVE Second Life, but you also have to remember that I teach students who, for the most part, grew up playing outside and have engaged in free play all of their lives. Perhaps this is also a function of the presence of free play in the lives of children. How many Gen Y kids truly had free play as part of their childhood? We've sort of structured and organized everything for them in many cases.
Want to Play?
Want to Invent?
What's the Difference?
When asked what inspired them to become inventors, many adults tell stories about playing as children. Among their most frequently cited childhood play experiences are: mechanical tinkering, fiddling with construction toys, reflecting about nature, and drawing or engaging in visual modeling.
Here's the page that high school literature teachers will want to go to. On the left hand side you'll see "Sub Sub topic" and you can click on the play. Click More and you can see even more plays. This way you can find information by play.
One of the things I found is a popular resource that uses Simpsons Images linking to Macbeth. (Not sure about copyright but it is there and is very popular.) Curriculum directors will want to share this with their English departments.
This is an amazing site which allow up to 4 people to collaboarate and play virtual instruments over the web in real time. Play a variety of guitars, drums and drum machines and keyboards. There is no sign up needed and you just invite other 'musicians' by sharing the link and begin jamming. Set to 'pro' mode to play using your computer keyboard. Requires Google Chrome.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
A 3D role-playing game designer that encourages learners to create stories narratives by playing the game. Designing games is fun and it is easy to share with your class mates.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Thanksgiving role play masks. If you need to have masks to print out for your students, this is a cool place to print them. Print them today and have them role play as they read the story today.
Got an email from this group - would love to hear from those who have played Karooba -- here is the information they sent me:
"The Karooba site includes the following features:
* One the largest collections of education-based (over 100,000) trivia questions
* Educational games that allow you to:
o Challenge friends around the world in one-on-one trivia games
o Join a tournament on education based topics or set up a tournament of friends or classmates
o Try your luck in a new Find-it game
o Create your own quizzes and see how others score on your test
* State-of-the-art avatar tool (Karoobatar) - create your near real life or cartoon characters
* A real time communications tool (Karoobacator) - Instant message with your friends without the risk of foul language.
Karooba was created and is maintained by a computer consulting firm based in Minnesota. The firm's staff, which is mostly comprised of parents with school-age kids, is very concerned (like most parents are these days) about what their children view on the Internet. With this in mind, Karooba was designed to be a 'safe haven' where kids can go to play online, as well as learn…and more importantly one that parents (and teachers) can trust. "
Get little ones interesting in basic programming by playing with Daisy the Dinosaur on this fun iPad app. Set a list of commands in free-play mode or complete challenges.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Learn to play guitar with this beautifully designed site. Work through the lessons using your own guitar along with your computer's microphone so the site can interact with you as you play in real time. The site will even help you tune it. If you haven't got a guitar to hand, you can use the on-screen virtual guitar. The course is designed for beginners, but lessons progress quickly. The site seems to work best on Google Chrome.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
"Waste too much time playing Asteroids in your youth? Perhaps it was worthwhile after all! This is a quirky assessment/quiz tool where players answer questions by playing Asteroids. Add questions by typing, uploading from a spreadsheet, or import from Quizlet."
A superb site with animated videos of Shakespeare plays. Watch short explanations about some of the most famous plays and watch videos exploring the characters. The text that goes with the videos is useful and child-friendly.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
What a blast! Show your friends a YouTube video on your iPhone using moment catcher. When you are done, play back their reaction. They don't know it but as you are playing the video, it is filming! This would be great to use with one of those jump out and scare you fright videos on YouTube. What fun.
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