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"Emobodied learning" uses Kinect to promote collaboration, kinesthetic & multimodal learning

Kind of like the "Cost of Life" game only with the US at minimum wage. You don't get the sense there's much data behind it, though, just a series of bad luck choices that result in unexpected expenses.

mentions several games used for teaching global cultures

Uses real historic artifacts but creates fictional dystopian future.

Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are they digital and hence very difficult to preserve but they also are software systems that have significant hardware, peripheral, and network dependencies, which are difficult to collect and formally represent. This article reviews the literature related to videogame preservation. In addition to covering the traditional technology-related issues inherent in all digital preservation endeavors, this review also attempts to describe the complexities and relationships between the traditional acts of technology preservation, representation, and collection development. Future work should include the identification of important user groups, an examination of games' context of use, and the development of representational models to describe interaction of players with the game and the interactions between players playing the game.

Interesting use of analog game to build social planning.

To engage international relations and area studies professionals in virtual and real games of domestic and international relations taking place during a global information age with rapid change, turmoil and instability.

Good point. I wonder why FB. Easy tool for adding and accessing content, if it's that widespread among their population.

I've seen lots of DH projects that attempted to build their own independent social networks. It's an incredibly steep uphill battle.

Funding for Mission US provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Educational outreach support provided by The Page & Otto Marx, Jr. Foundation and Atran Foundation.

Check your sources and always give attribution!

And what a fun, lovely game it is.

The pilot follows work undertaken by JISC Collections early in 2012, when a number of interactive educational software and games suppliers, as well as representatives of FE colleges, were interviewed to gauge the current extent and use of such software and online resources by the colleges.

World of Warcraft Students' passions can be a powerful driver for deeper and more creative learning. With this knowledge, some educators are using popular commercial games like World of Warcraft (WoW) to create curriculum around the game.

Requires login?

Yeah. FP has gone semi-arsehole, requiring free sign-up and log-in to see their stuff. Even some of their own staff are complaining. I suspect it will go away at some point.

Yikes. Well, I logged in under my Facebook hat.

Nice set from 2012.

I wonder what an overall survey of all current offerings from the gaming industry would reveal. Index each game along a continuum from Big Brother to V for Vendetta.

If I get tenure, I might just write that article.

Yeah! Would be fun for a class project, too.

Awesome! Can't wait. My kids imbibed a lot of medieval and early modern history from the series.

Xenos-ISLE is an open-source language learning portal - an online universe where people can gather and practice using a second language in natural and authentic ways through game play. Students are free to roam the world, chat and communicate with those they meet along the way.

names mean stranger in Greek

Which is nice - it's neither the target language (English) nor the students' original tongue (Spanish). So it emphasizes strangeness equally.

Video games can be used to educate through repetition and feedback, but they can also have some less-than-positive side effects. Learn about how video games can improve the educational experience as well as hinder it.

Sequel/built on their pirates games.

The post below is courtesy of Tom Fisher of Imagenetic simulations, who writes about his recent work developing a simulation for use in training financial intelligence units in strategic analysis.-RB I knew we were on to someone when, mid-course, a student approached me with a problem. Tom, we've got a problem.