playful thoughts on games and learning
Got a big deadline on at the moment so really didn’t need something new to distract me (thanks, Scott). However, since it’s inevitable that I’m going to be distracted by something it might as well be something cool, like Kingdom…
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I’m trying to write a paper on the potential of alternate reality games in education for an urgent deadline this afternoon, so am very easily distractible at the moment and have been studiously ignoring my blog feeds. However, when an…
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Why have I spent the morning so far finding a cuddly toy, photographing it and creating a Twitter account for it? The answer is here. Looks like it should be a lot of fun.
The link to the Passively Multiplayer Online Game has been sitting in my ‘to investigate’ list untouched for a couple of weeks as I was worried that when I started playing I wouldn’t get any work done at all. Fortunately,…
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Okay, this isn’t directly related to games and education, but it made me laugh. When I’m travelling I like to take photos of funny street signs, and was quite pleased with my Cuba haul, but managed to be well and…
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Here’s another game by the people responsible for the brilliant Samorost 1, Samorost 2 and Quest for the Rest. This one’s actually designed as an educational game, and I can forgive the rather crude embedding of content because of the…
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