Link to Action Plan Presentation: http://prezi.com/nbz7a200-o4f/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Action Plan in 140 Characters: @Cohort21 ActionPlan: I worked w Hist teachers @ UTS to develop & test student activities for history-related computer games (see http://www.changegamer.ca/history.html) Key Takeaways: 1. There are some fantastic games out there that can be used to teach History (and Science, and English, and Visual Art, […]
I just finished the first draft of the student activity for another History game we will try out with the Gr.7s at UTS. The game is called ‘Flight to Freedom’, and is part of the popular ‘Mission US‘ series (geared toward 10-12 year-olds). Here is a brief description of the game from the Mission US […]
I just finished the first draft of the student activity for the History game ‘Death in Sakkara – An Egyptian Adventure’ (BBC). If you have an hour to spare and want to try a game that takes you on a wild and mysterious ride to Egypt in the 1920s, you might want to give it a […]
In my previous post I had outlined 6 main steps for my Action Plan. It has been a little slow getting things going, but I’m now happy to have completed steps 1 and 2. First off, after our last F2F, I spoke with two of our History teachers to pitch to them the idea of […]
My Cohort 21 action plan is to work with one or two of the History teachers at my school to design student activities to be used with some history-related computer games (e.g. Mission-U.S. series, Death in Sakkara, and High Tea). There are a few main benefits to taking on this plan: A number of the […]