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Re: [ICTs in English] Weekly update, April 17 - 23 - More Computer Games!


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  • From: Nick Wilson <nwilson AT ashs.school.nz>
  • To: ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz
  • Subject: Re: [ICTs in English] Weekly update, April 17 - 23 - More Computer Games!
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:40:10 +1200

Not sure if anyone's mentioned gamefroot yet, but it's a very simple yet effective browser-based game design tool. And it's free!

Plenty of preset textures to use as well as the ability to create your own images and upload them. And it's free!

Lots of potential here for students of all abilities to create a playable game that demonstrates their ideas - students could show their knowledge of a text and deeper ideas by creating images of symbols from the texts and including them in the game.

Think of the potential!

The Shawshank Redemption Game - dodge the hostile prisoners and climb through sewerage to freedom!

The To Catch a Mockingbird Game - stomp on injustice and racial inequity as you race to save Tom Robinson.

The Catcher in the Rye Game - a baseball game in an overgrown field (I haven't read this one - is this what Field of Dreams was based on?)

The Hunger Games Game - actually, there's probably a pretty good reason there isn't already a game about this...

http://gamefroot.com/
Check it out!

Nick Wilson
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English and Media Studies Teacher
Albany Senior High School

536 Albany Highway
PO Box  300 380, Albany
North Shore City 0752




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