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FRONTLINE: digital nation: virtual worlds: is world of warcraft on your resume? | PBS - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 03 Feb 10
     
    IBM Vice President of Innovation Francoise LeGoues says Warcraft gamers are definitely developing business skills companies like hers want.
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The WoW Factor -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 12 Dec 09 - Cached
  • For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies-- and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.
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  • Vyktorea herself belongs to Catherine Parsons, assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction, and pupil personnel services for Pine Plains Central School District in New York state. Parsons is the founder of this "guild"-- a community of game players with a shared interest. Called Cognitive Dissonance and populated entirely by educators from both K-12 and higher education, it meets regularly in WoW's elaborate, monster-laden fantasy adventure world, where members play, share ideas, and explore possible instructional crossover. Parsons created the guild two years ago and now runs it with help from Sandy Wagner, director of technology for New York's Auburn Enlarged City School District.
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  • "Cognitive Dissonance represents for me the moment when you realize your perspective may not be the only one, or what you knew before might not be true or may need to evolve or change based on the new information you have gathered," Parsons says. "For many, the idea that video games might represent some analogy to an effective learning structure, or that there might just be something to using video games in the classroom, is one some educators might consider 'nontraditional.' So what better name than Cognitive Dissonance-- the uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously."
  • anonymous on 12 Dec 09
     
    For a growing group of educators, the online role-playing game World of Warcraft is a place to go to relax, network, and discover potential learning strategies-- and slay a few monsters if they get in the way.
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YouTube - PCS Games In Education - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 17 Jun 10
     
    Edelmira Segovia, Doctoral Student at UNCW's Watson School of Education interviews Lucas Gillispie, Instructional Technology Coordinator for Pender County Schools about video games in education and the plans to integrate World of Warcraft into an after-school program focusing on literacy, mathematics, digital citizenship, and 21st-Century skils.
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 14 Apr 10
     
    "Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how."
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WoWinSchool / Writing and Literacy Lessons - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 17 Jun 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 17 Jun 10
     
    Design a quest chain, based on your experience with other quests in the game. The chain must involve at least two different areas in the zone and have at least five steps. Write all the dialogue that the NPCs involved in the quest would say. Make sure you indicate the quest requirements and the steps involved in the quest. You can research quest chains using one of the online quest helper databases like WoWWiki, Thotbott, etc.
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