{"id":36,"date":"2014-03-06T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-03-07T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:52:11","slug":"and-the-winners-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/2014\/03\/06\/and-the-winners-are\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winners are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37\" alt=\"mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom-ss3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my previous post I had outlined 6 main steps for my Action Plan. \u00a0It has been a little slow getting things going, but I&#8217;m now happy to have completed steps 1 and 2. \u00a0First off, after our last F2F, I spoke with two of our History teachers to pitch to them the idea of using a game (or two) in their curriculum. \u00a0They were both very excited about the idea and jumped on board (Vince Dannetta and Zach Fanni). \u00a0Then I searched online and found about ten possible history-related games that I thought might fit into their classes. \u00a0They had some time to explore the games, and we have now decided on two to follow through with for their Gr.7 course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mission-us.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission U.S. (Flight to Freedom)<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org\/game-reviews\/mission-us-flight-to-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">read review here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deathinsakkara.wedonicethings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Death In Sakkara<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/jayisgames.com\/archives\/2005\/10\/death_in_sakkar.php\" target=\"_blank\">read review here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For step 3 I now have to sit down over the March Break and start playing around with some possible student activities for both games. \u00a0In doing this, I want to take a very conscious approach using the SAMR model (something I haven&#8217;t done before). \u00a0I&#8217;ll meet with Vince and Zach again after the break and we&#8217;ll schedule some class time to play-test the games and try out the student activities (step 4).<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to it. \u00a0These look like great games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post I had outlined 6 main steps for my Action Plan. \u00a0It has been a little slow getting things going, but I&#8217;m now happy to have completed steps 1 and 2. \u00a0First off, after our last F2F, I spoke with two of our History teachers to pitch to them the idea of &hellip; 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