The 2011 St. Edward's University workshop on Educational Gaming, by Jason Rosenblum. This workshop is designed to offer a hands-on opportunity to explore educational games through play. Games and game authoring platforms are presented.
St. Edward's University Fall 2011 Educational Gaming Workshop
1. 2011 Fall Ed. Gaming
Workshop
By: Jason Rosenblum
Twitter: @jarosenblum
jasonr@stedwards.edu
Presentation @ http://slidesha.re/rQBHCj
2. Games & Platforms
Available
Global Social
Real Lives Evoke
Problems
Fate of the World of
Peacemaker
World Warcraft
ARIS Games Mentira eRepublik
3. Fate of the World
• Designed to heighten awareness of systemic
effects of environmental, political, and cultural
choices on climate change.
• Role play leader of a fictitious global environmental
organization
• Mission-based, progressive difficulty
• Resource management and policy decisions
• http://fateoftheworld.net/
5. Real Lives
• Real play by immersion. Experiential
learning through role play.
• Build the life of a character and live that life
making decisions and reaping the results of
those decisions.
• http://www.educationalsimulations.com
• Database contains 200 indicators in over 4000
locations in 192 countries across the globe
• Stats from the WHO, Index Mundi, census data
with job information by region.
6. Superhero Gaming to offer challenge-
based approach to tackle serious social issues.
http://www.urgentevoke.com
7. Global Social Problems
• Local Action & Social Networks for Change
• Undergrad Cultural Foundations course
• Uses superhero gaming strategies &
challenge-based learning approach.
• Inspired by McGonigal’s idea of gameful
action and her ARG, Evoke.
• http://academic.stedwards.edu/globalsocialproblems
8. Peacemaker
• Simulation goal: to make decisions that will
lead to Mideast peace
• Role play Mideast leadership roles
• Must balance complex social & political
forces
• http://www.peacemakergame.com
• http://vimeo.com/17001067
9. Balance of Power :
Storytron
• Text-based interactive fiction - can create
custom stories
• Balance of Power - a post 9/11 policy game
• http://www.storytron.com/play-bop2k-launch.php
• Interactive Storytelling by Storytron
• http://www.storytron.com/index.php
10. eRepublik
• Web-based strategy game
• http://www.erepublik.com/en
• Their Tagline:
“What if the financial crisis REALLY goes
bad?”
11. World of Warcraft
• Can be used for Spanish Language
immersion. Also see the MIT Education
Arcade write-up
• English & Spanish speaking Realms
• Characters can’t cross over Realms
• Free version is limited
• Playing together in WoW
• Game: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/?-
12. ARIS Mobile Games
• Free Mobile Game authoring for iOS
devices
• Location-based games
• Language learning, storytelling, Quest-based
events, go-collect-learn-solve activities
• http://arisgames.org/
• Lots of educational games - anyone can
create
13. Mentira
• Spanish Language Learning using ARIS
• Designed by University of New Mexico:
Chris Holden
• http://arisgames.org/featured/mentira/
• http://mentira.org