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Enliven Your Classroom with Game Shows. March 11, 2010 8:30am – 9:30am. Who Are We?. Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, PA Marie Hartlein Associate Professor, Computer Science [email protected] Linda Moulton Professor, Math and Computer Science [email protected] - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Enliven Your Classroom with Game Shows
March 11, 20108:30am – 9:30am
Who Are We?
Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA
Marie HartleinAssociate Professor, Computer [email protected]
Linda MoultonProfessor, Math and Computer [email protected]
Patricia RahmlowAssociate Professor, Computer [email protected]
http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/Presentations/index.html
Today’s College Student (Class of 2013)
They have been preparing for the arrival of HDTV all their lives. They have never used a card catalog to find a book. Text has always been hyper. They have never had to “shake down” an oral thermometer. They have always been able to read books on an electronic
screen. There have always been flat screen televisions. There has always been a computer in the Oval Office.
Beloit College’s annual mindset listhttp://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2013.php
Today’s College Student (Class of 2013)
"Millennial students have grown up in a world that is fundamentally different from that of previous generations." 1
Instant messaging, instant information, instant entertainment
How can we, as teachers, compete?1 Michael D. Coomes and Richard DeBard, eds., Serving the Millennial Generation: New Directions for Student Services (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004), 87.
Why Games Work
"The idea of embedding academic learning in an entertaining format is centuries old, because it works,” 1
"A game show is a stress-free and fun way to learn that doesn't diminish the importance of the subject matter" 1
Ten reasons for using classroom games http://www.thegamegroup.com/article1.htm
1The Learning Brain by Eric Jensen2http://www.learningware.com/LearningCenter/WhitePaper1.html
Options for Including Games in Your Course
PurchaseFree resources on the WebDevelop your own
Gameshow Prep
Gameshow Prep / Pro lets you use your own content to create an unlimited number of game shows in six familiar TV-style formats
Categories Classroom Feud
Tic-Tac-Toe Final Answer
Wheel of Knowledge Question Bowl
Gameshow Prep
The software allows you to introduce and reinforce content while engaging students with collaboration, competition and FUN!
LearningWare studies have shown that knowledge retention increased from 54% with oral reviews to 88% using this software.
LearningWare web sitehttp://www.learningware.com/
Game demonstration
Gameshow Prep: Benefits and Challenges
Benefits:The software provides an easy template
to create games and deliver them.Slammers can be used to contribute to
the game show atmosphere and keep track of which team responded first.
Students love using the software!
Gameshow Prep: Benefits and Challenges
Challenges/Limitations:It takes time to enter the question poolMinimal classroom setupCostLimit of 10 slammers (teams)No tracking of individual student
resultsTechnical concerns
Gameshow Prep: Contact Information
LearningWare web sitehttp://www.learningware.com/
Bob Berentz(866) 433-5139 / [email protected]
Current CostGameShow Pro Software $200-795 (based on
quantity) Slammers $495 for first 2 and $150 each
additional slammer
Low-Cost / Free Game Resources
Classroom Game Templates and More http://www.murray.k12.ga.us/teacher/kara%20leonard/Mini%20T%27s/Games/Games.htm
Quia – Costs instructor $50 per year
(Provides 16 generic Game templates such as hangman, battleship and scavenger hunts and online quizzing capabilities)http://www.quia.com/subscription/
Free Game Resources
Go Animatehttp://goanimate.com/
Language Games for ESL/EFL learners (Grammar of Doom, Quality Control --spotting misspelled words) http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
Algebra Gamehttp://mathplayground.com/algebra_puzzle.html
Hot Potatoes (freeware)(Suite includes six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web)http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Develop Your Own
PowerPoint based games Manual games Musical reinforcement
Professor Joe Dougherty from the Computer Science Department at Haverford College advocates using songs, magic whatever will keep the students engaged.
Here is a sample of his work:http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/infiniteloop.htm
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