I just purchased this Ebay Auction Game from Amazon. I’ll add it to the pile of games we play next fall in the early weeks of the course. While there, I noticed a slew of educational and board games that Amazon is selling for Toys ‘R Us. What makes it interesting is the Amazonian inclusion [...]

I just purchased this Ebay Auction Game from Amazon. I’ll add it to the pile of games we play next fall in the early weeks of the course. While there, I noticed a slew of educational and board games that Amazon is selling for Toys ‘R Us. What makes it interesting is the Amazonian inclusion [...]

Try Jennifer Government: NationStates, a free web-based simulation based on a recent book. Looks interesting and the price is right.

Try Jennifer Government: NationStates, a free web-based simulation based on a recent book. Looks interesting and the price is right.

I’m on a listserv ( ITFORUM@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU ) for 791A, but Mary Haskett of HCI Training posted a cool Flash-based Hangman game that is appropriate for this class. Mary describes it as a “web-based learning activity using Flash (it’s a Hangman game) that can be personalized for use in any project. You can specify the number [...]

Contests are within the domain of EdGames, so you might be interested in Invisibles, a weekly competition in which you have to identify the movies that eight still pictures were taken from. The catch is that any exposed body parts of the actors have been carefully Photoshopped away into the cornfield. It amazes me that [...]

Attention young whippersnappers! If you want to develop greater empathy with people in their 70s, or get a sneak preview of your own future body, then it’s time to climb into the age simulator suit. Not only will you experience stiffness, diminished energy, sight and hearing, but soon you’ll be leaving your turn signals blinking [...]

.ASPA is a FREE resources site for after school progam instructors,school teachers, parents and everyone else looking for some fun games for kids. It incorporates instructions with video and audio to further explain the games. Its very useful.

Who would have imagined? You can create games within Excel, as can be seen here, a list of successful entries in a challenge posed by Mr. Excel himself. Maybe I should add this to the list of project possibilities for next year’s class.

Who would have imagined? You can create games within Excel, as can be seen here, a list of successful entries in a challenge posed by Mr. Excel himself. Maybe I should add this to the list of project possibilities for next year’s class.

The Virtual Reality Medical Center in San Diego, CA offers virtual reality simulations to clients suffering from phobias. In the safety of a medical office, the client can experience and work through their fears. Therapists expose clients to increasing levels of anxiety-provoking stimuli until a satisfactory tolerance is developed. VRMC offers programs for individuals with [...]

Go to TechTV to download cool nanotechnology simulations. Dave Roos of Tech TV states, “Nanotechnology is science on an incredibly small scale. A nanometer, by definition, is one-billionth of a meter. To give you some perspective, an object that is 10 nanometers wide is still 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a single human [...]

It’s always interesting to read the reflections of game designers about how the process went. IDevGames just published a short Black Cube Postmortem that’s worth a look. “As strange as it sounds, the lack of time I had each day to work on Black Cube wasn’t always a bad thing. Rather than jumping in and [...]

NASA has created a unique interactive system that uses biofeedback to help control stress and tension in patients. They have started employing this technique through the use of video games. The joystick encourages certain brainwave responses that stimulate a reduction of stress. Children with ADHD are receiving video game treatment because it has a motivational [...]

This has been voted the HOT Holiday Toy for 2002! And rightly so. Leapfrog is a superb learning game to support an array of content from reading to math and more that is learned in school. The games pride themselves in being standard-based and students can even download “homework” practice published by the teacher at [...]

The Franklin Learning Systems site presents an array of very interesting games. Many of the games are aimed at social problems in schools. Games like Block the Bully Cycle and Conflict Resolution are aimed at both high school and adult audiences. There are also a few aimed at getting a job, teamwork and succeeding at [...]

The WWF is the organization that forced the World Wrestling Federation to change it’s name. It has a wonderful site devoted to informing and teaching conservation in many ways. There is a group of games aimed at a wide age range to teach many aspects of conservation. One of my favorites is called Caught in [...]

Have Fun Challenging your Brain! FunBrain.com is a site filled with all kinds of resources for educators. While it specializes in K-8, there are many games for high school and beyond. There is a quiz game to identify famous mathematicians and scientists. And a game called Fredo’s Super Challenge that presents various scientific and math [...]

The Literacy Center is a great place where preschool and primary grade students can go online and practice letters, shapes, reading and writing skills. What’s great about this site is that all the the activities are not only in English, but Spanish, German, and French as well. The best part about this the Literacy Center [...]

I’m addicted to BLOGGING I guess. My obligatory five are finished but I just ran into a great site that you just have to see. I was looking for specific guidelines on questioning techniques in the classroom for our instructor course at work, and this site has that and much more. It is the University [...]

Ok, it’s not about games or simulations…but it’s about BLOGS. Here’s an interesting article about a women’s experience breaking into the blog world. Are there more men than women blogging? Apparently not – the ratio is about 50-50. It’s just that they’re harder to find. The article Telling All Online: It’s a Man’s World (Isn’t [...]

How do you “point and click” when the mouse does not behave in the usual fashion? Do you adapt more quickly to having the left-right or up-down directions reversed? Try a simulation called Reverse the Field to see what it’s like. (I was better at left-right, myself). Explore Science has more simulations geared towards 9-12th [...]

In EDTEC 791A your get to know Quia (pronounced key-ah) and short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. You will use it to create survey, and the professor uses it to deliver that 10 page “quiz” in the middle of the semester. Ouia is for more than survey. Quia can be used to construct educational games, and [...]

According to BBC NEWS…. “A war is raging for the heart of the popular online fantasy game EverQuest. But this battle is not being fought between players and marauding hordes of monsters. Instead the fight is between Sony, who run the game, and an anonymous group of programmers who have created software that makes the [...]

I checked out the Education 4 Kids site and found that it left much to be desired. After trying out the Time Experience Drill and the Money Experience Drill, I thought that conceptually, these games were strong, but the overall layout of the pages would probably not be very visually appealing for the intended audience. [...]

Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston.” Aimed at middle school students, the web site contains hands-on labs, activities and challenges that relate to bridges, domes, tunnels and skyscrapers. You can also virtually experiment with loads, materials and [...]

I guess I am infatuated with simulations. This is my second posting on an article about what works and doesn’t work in simulation training with adults…but this is simply a great article! Wade through the first paragraph extolling the virtues of simulation training (yeah, yeah, yeah – we know all that or we wouldn’t be [...]

Now that I have your attention… Here are three resources that I have come to rely on to help me plan interesting training and keep up with the latest and greatest technology and methodology. – Sign up to receive a FREE monthly hardcopy magazine about educational technology with interesting, high quality articles. – Register with [...]

Something to look forward to: The Sims are going online! The details can be found in Geoff Keighley’s interview with Will Wright, the most interesting game designer out there. “Wright’s still as amiable as ever, but he’s clearly stressed out. It’s understandable. On December 17, he will launch his most ambitious game ever: The Sims [...]

KPBS just revamped its site and it has a great section for kids to enjoy activities that include their favorite morning characters. The specific page is called KPBS Kids. It has interactive games, recipes, and other fun activities for the kids. What’s really neat is that kids get to pick a specific skill that they [...]

Like Erika and Darleen, I think web-based flash games are cool. While our group has been browsing the web for these kinds of things related to math, science, engineering and technology– I’ve noticed that some of them are poorly designed. This one combines space exploration with trivia. Yes, trivia.

Check out the November installment of Thiagi’s Play for Performance online newsletter. It’s full of useful information and “pithy sayings.” A highlight from this issue is an interview with speaker/facilitator Ken Bellemare, who likes to incorporate magic in his presentations. His motto is “Let’s bore no more.” The interview includes instructions for incorporating a magic [...]

Lucas Learning has a Make-A-Hero game that enables the player to create a character, print it out, and then complete guided activities about the character. You can place the character in various locations, including the USA which inexplicably appears to be the inside of a spaceship! The activities include an interview, a scavenger hunt, and [...]

Our group used new software from CarsonMedia called “eGames by Thiagi” to create some activities for our Boredom Case assignment. This software enables you to quickly create Flash-based games like Catergorize, Hangman, and Match. Thiagi’s games are time-tested and engaging for learners. And now they are easily displayed on Web pages as Flash movies! Scroll [...]