Teach students with games!
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The document discusses the benefits of using games as educational tools, emphasizing their ability to promote engagement, movement, and creative thinking among students. It provides examples of various game creation applications and platforms that allow students to design and share their own games. Additionally, it highlights the potential for games to replace traditional assessment methods like quizzes and homework.
Teach students with games!
- 1. Photo by Kelly Hunter, Flic.kr/p/ai2U2f ShellyTerrell.com/games Get Your Game On!
- 2. Photo by Sherif Salama, Flic.kr/p/4unZDG Whoever wants to understand much must play much. - Gottfried Benn
- 3. Peer support & learning Powerful motivator Try till level is achieved Application within a context Multimedia rich Immediate reward Photo by David Goehring, Flic.kr/p/ai2U2f Why teach with games? Promotes movement
- 4. Photo by Jirka Matousek, Flic.kr/p/dYvX1s Games can replace a quiz or homework!
- 5. Photo by Jirka Matousek, Flic.kr/p/dYvX1s Games can replace a quiz or homework! Review with games!
- 6. Quizlet
- 12. Group 2 Week 2 by Kevin Jarrett, Flickr • List their favorite games • Write down the storyline • Create a walkthrough
- 13. Have them design walkthroughs, Bit.ly/1havlgM Samarost walkthrough by Carol Rainbow
- 14. They will need to map out their ideas 28/366 by Clayton Cottingham, Flickr, CC
- 15. Video Game Glee by Clover_1, Flickr Get students to create their own games!
- 16. GetKahoot.com • Create trivia games • Drag and drop • Students prompted to make quiz for their peers to take • Timed • Leader board
- 17. Classtools.net
- 18. Stencyl.com Digitalplay.info/blog/2011/06/10/free-online-game-creator/ • Choose templates, such as mazes, pingpong, role- playing, aliens, and more
- 19. Scratch.mit.edu
- 22. Game Creation Apps iPad Gaming by Michael Nugent, Flickr
- 23. Tiny Tap Game Creation iOS & Android App http://www.tinytap.it/ Features: • Add own images or from a web search • Record your own voice • Record a question, an answer, a hint • 20 different soundtracks • Track progress using the in- game scoring system • Personalize pre-made games from the TinyTap store with narration and images
- 24. Game Press Free for iPad -drag & drop - over 500 graphics, music, sound effects, particle effects -import your own pictures, graphics, animations, sound effects, music - create sound & special effects - physics engine for real world simulation
- 25. Image by Laurie Sullivan, Flic.kr/p/hnNbBR Have them play each other’s games & assess them
- 27. Image by John Corvera, Flickr “Games are an extraordinary way to tap into your most heroic qualities.” - Jane McGonigal, Author of Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
- 29. Get your copy of Learning to Go- Gum.co/learn2go ShellyTerrell.com/games Twitter: @ShellTerrell Facebook.com/ShellyTerrell Google.com/+ShellySanchezTerrell 30Goals.com