Gaming Across the Curriculum

Gaming Across the Curriculum BYOL session – Finding and Evaluating Educational Games

Marjee Chmiel, National Geographic Society, @mchmiel, http://marjee.org

Trevor Owens, Center for History and New Media @tjowens, http://trevorowens.org

Game directories

http://playinghistory.org

http://playingscience.org

http://gamesforchange.org/play

http://supersmartgames.com (modified September 15, 2011)

http://pbskids.org/games

Game recommendations

Coaster Creator – http://www.jason.org/digital_library/4851.aspx

Gravitee 2 – http://www.kongregate.com/games/FunkyPear/gravitee-2

Do I Have a Right – http://www.icivics.org/games/do-i-have-right

The Jamestown Online Adventure Game – http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown

How to use games

• share them in a diigo group, on a website or newsletter
• “free time” activities
• classroom activity
• “homework”
• your ideas (from comments)

Physics games from my diigo

• www.physicsgames.net/game/Magic_Pen.html
• www.itsgamertime.com/linerunner.php (updated September 15, 2011)
• www.fantasticcontraption.net