{"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 \u2018Death in Sakkara \u2013 An Egyptian Adventure\u2019 (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\u2019t 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\u2019d 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\u2019t have the time or interest \u2013\u00a0I\u2019m 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 \u2018Death in Sakkara \u2013 An Egyptian Adventure\u2019 (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}]}}