Engage Workshop Berlin09 Part1

Engage in Game-Based Learning

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Workshop - Online Educa, Berlin 2009

Agenda• 9:00 – 10:45

• Introductions• Moderators & Attendees

• Engage Learning Project• Overview of Project • Walk through of web portal• Overview of Project Tools

• Overview of Workshop CD contents

• Single Player Scenarios• Group work creating scenarios• Presentation of ideas

Agenda• 11:15 – 13:00

• Game Based Learning or Game Based Teaching• Overview of Meta Games• A discussion on the use of Meta Games• The Taxonomy of Game Based Learning

• Role Playing the Industry• Examples of using RolePlay at University• Group work creating Roleplays• Presentation of ideas

• Conclusion• Summary, Feedback, Thank you, and Farewell

•Introductions

• Who you are?

• Where you are from?

• Why you are here?

• If you could be a videogame character, who

would you be and why?

•Project Overview

ENGAGE

European Network for Growing Activity

in Game-based learning in Education

LLP KA4 2008 - 3607Duration - 24 months

Stakeholders

• Practitioners/teachers/tutors/trainers.• Parents and learners in all sectors. • Researchers and students.• National and regional policy makers and

policy advisors.• European policy makers and policy

advisors.• Game developers, game producers and

learning content providers.

Objectives

• The creation of a European GBL Portal

• Main dissemination tool

• Documented methodologies

• Europe wide dialogue

• Targeted workshops

• Supporting the practitioners

• Guidelines for Practitioners

Valorisation

• Valorisation Workshops in 12 EC countries

• Spain, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Ireland, Belgium(1st Round – 6 countries)

• E.g. Portugal, Greece, France, Slovenia, UK, Finland(2nd Round – 6 countries)

• Inviting selected promoters from other countries• to cover at least 24 countries

Mainstreaming

• Increasing the monitoring capacity and promotion of quality approaches

•Portal Walkthrough

Resources

• “Decision Making” - IFo support for teachers for broad questions re games, the game

industry, gaming culture, game technology, games for learning, criteria for games for learning. games and educational multimedia etc

• “Reduction of the Learning Curve” - HOWo information for teachers with respect to how to start, play and

interact with various types of games + how to implement these games and game-based tools in classroom/formal education situations

• “Online Catalogue of Games for Learning” - WHATo A catalogue of serious games and other games for learning

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…• A wiki? a wizard? an FAQ type tool? software

help type tool?• All of the above perhaps…

• A wiki: wiki as working method, wiki structure, wiki insofar as other users outside the partner group would be able to edit and add new articles

• A wizard: potentially leads users through from a general interest in using games for learning through specific advice on what games to consider and how to implement in an educational context

• FAQ: providing answers or paths from real/realistic questions

• A software help tool: providing standard software search/browsing options, contents, index, search

Working with Wikis

A catalogue of games

• Creation of a catalogue of serious and entertainment game titles• each partner to review 1 serious

game and 3 “entertainment” titles

• Highly templated

Work to date

Various topics

Game Reviews

Work to date

Various topics

Game Reviews

What are the ..?

I’ve heard….?

Game Reviews

Various topics

FAQ-style questions

What are the ..?

I’ve heard….?

Various topics

Game Reviews

FAQ-style questions

Further questions & texts

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An offline version?

• To include:• Decision Making Topics• Reduction of the Learning Curve

Topics• FAQs

• But “interactive”?

An offline version?

• To include:• Decision Making Topics• Reduction of the Learning

CurveTopics

• FAQs

• But “interactive”?

~ The Cave of Time, Edward Packard

The Print ToolWhat are the ..?

I’ve heard….?

Various topics

FAQ-style questions

Level 1:Categories

Level 2:FAQ-styleQuestions

Level 3:InformationTopics

Engage Workshop CD

• Games• Spsgame• Science & Technology game

• Publications• Handbooks and Reports

• Videos• Gender in Game design• DDR Expert Players• sps authoring tool overview

Single Player Scenario

In Groups….

• Play spsgame on CD• Choose one level only

• Brainstorm alternate scenario• Overview, levels, questions, outcomes

• Present ideas to class

Example 1: Conference Chaos

Example 2: Project Pandemonium

•Presentation of Ideas

COFFEE BREAK

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10:45 - 11:15