Periodic Fable

Monday, 8 October 2007

Links, week commencing 8th October: Games to waste your time?

Circlo: A tetris shooting game
http://www.andkon.com/arcade/tetris/circlo/


Flow in games - strangely addictive creature game
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

And some interesting blogs/articles about using games in learning (as if that makes it OK...)

Getting It Wrong: Slaying Myths About Video Games (Part 1)

Learning in Video Games (a group blog)

Futurelab handbook on Games and learning (2005)

Futurelab's year-long project on Teaching with Games (Now complete)

Using games for corporate training (article) All play and more work by Sally Flood in Computing

Labels: games, learning games

posted by Helen Whitehead 10:48 AM

Helen Whitehead's blog of e-learning, digital literacy, online writing, and digital creativity.

Which methods and techniques using new technologies are of real use?

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