At this time of year I love reading everyone’s wrap up of the previous year. Highlight, lowlight, best of. I am not usually one to write that sort of thing, and if you look back over my year of blogging I haven’t been one to write much at all.…
Tag Archives: gaming
Weeks 2 and 3 – Video Games and Learning
Weeks 2 and 3 of the course are now finished. They centred on the deeper subculture that surrounds games, understanding games as structuring identity, and game design. Its all still theoretical but its good to know the lingo if I’m ever talking about it with a gamer/researcher.…
Minecraft in the Classroom
We recently presented the AIS ICT Integration Conference. It was a great two days and it was so exciting to be with like minded techies. One of my favourite presentations was by Michael Beilharz from Knox Grammar – you can see more about him in this article on their school blog.…
Dungeons & Discourse: One Instructor’s Adventure in Edu-Gaming
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Dr. Petruzella will discuss his experience designing, building, and teaching his introductory philosophy edu-gaming course “Dungeons & Discourse,” a quest-based roleplaying game. This webinar is part of a ……
Due to Technical Difficulties
This is just a quick update – I know I’ve been quiet on the blog this past two months.
Plans for Minecraft at school have slowed as my IT partner in crime concentrates on setting everything up for report writing.
Games-Based Learning: Massively MineCraft Open Day (in which I learn to fly)
I recently attended an online Open Day on Massively Minecraft. It was probably the steepest learning curve I’ve encountered in a while, perhaps since primary school, honest! And here is what I learned.
Massively Minecraft (MM) is a guild or ‘ learning community for kids and their parents – exploring how to live, work and play in MineCraft.’(MM…
Games-based Learning: Hunting and Planning
MineCraft
After talking with my boss (Head of Learning Resources) and with one of the school IT staff who is very supportive of games-based learning, we have decided to pursue setting up a Minecraft private server and beginning a small after-school group in the library next term.…
Games-based Learning: My PD goal for 2012
I’m a big fan of play – it is one of the most authentic, engaging, rewarding modes of learning.
My old school (primary) was heavily into play-based learning but now I work in a high school.…