{"id":40,"date":"2014-03-18T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/?p=40"},"modified":"2014-03-18T20:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:22:02","slug":"feel-like-travelling-to-egypt-for-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/2014\/03\/18\/feel-like-travelling-to-egypt-for-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel like travelling to Egypt for an hour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/car_sakkara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-45\" alt=\"car_sakkara\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/car_sakkara-300x149.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just finished the first draft of the student activity for the History game &#8216;Death in Sakkara &#8211; An Egyptian Adventure&#8217; (BBC).\u00a0 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\u00a0a try.\u00a0 This game is beautifully produced and well-researched, but notoriously difficult.\u00a0 As a result, I have added in a number of hints on the student activity so you don&#8217;t end up pulling your hair out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/files\/2014\/03\/death-in-sakkara-worksheet-new.pdf\">death-in-sakkara-worksheet-new<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you do try the game using\u00a0the hints, I&#8217;d love to hear about a few things (any or all of them):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately how long did it take you to complete the game?<\/li>\n<li>Were the hints useful?\u00a0 Unclear?\u00a0 Too easy?<\/li>\n<li>Is the student activity easy to understand?\u00a0 Any suggestions?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think the game and\/or student activity is appropriate for advanced Gr.7\u00a0students?<\/li>\n<li>Any other feedback?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No worries if you don&#8217;t have the time or interest &#8211;\u00a0I&#8217;m going to be play-testing the game and the student activity with at least one Gr.7 class at UTS in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the first draft of the student activity for the History game &#8216;Death in Sakkara &#8211; An Egyptian Adventure&#8217; (BBC).\u00a0 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\u00a0a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/2014\/03\/18\/feel-like-travelling-to-egypt-for-an-hour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feel like travelling to Egypt for an hour?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[10,2,8,3],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-uncategorized","tag-action-plan","tag-games-in-education","tag-history","tag-serious-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}