Monday, February 25, 2013


Week 5

Assignment #1

I have little experience with gaming involving the ELA. However, the experience that I do have seems to be effective and fun! There is a website that I like to use for the younger elementary grades called www.fun4thebrain.com. It has ELA games as well as Math games that are fun, addicting and hard to stop playing. Some of the games feature parts of speech, root words, sight words, syllables, and the breaking down of words. I highly recommend these games for those of you that teach on the elementary school level. The kids love playing them and it reinforces what is learned in the classroom.

Assignment #2

Philosophy of using gaming in the classroom

Teaching Perspective: The use of gaming should be used regularly to reinforce ideas taught within the classroom in the ELA subjects.

Technology Coordinator: Gaming can serve to be very important when used inside the school setting. Therefore, the right equipment should be set up in the proper location for the most effective use of the students and teachers.

Assignment #3
Below is the link to my PowerPoint containing a script to a possible game that I thought of. Hope you enjoy!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58823857/Week%205.pptx

3 comments:

  1. I actually checked out the website Fun4thebrain and I like it. This is definitely a website I would use with my daughter who is in preschool. It's another fun way for her to learn literacy skills.

    I agree games should be used regularly in the classroom to reinforce ideas. The problem is many people (administrators especially) do not understand how effective games can be in the classroom. They feel it is a distraction instead of an enhancement. For example, if students are working on Figurative Language it will be a great idea to incorporate Toontastic or ToonDoo where students can create their own cartoons.

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  2. Thanks for suggesting Fun4thebrain, I think this website would be great to use during our classroom lab time.

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  3. I love your game senario. It looks like a great story fabricated game already, very similar to a game called Castaway. You may be albe to make this game go live using Scratch Programming.

    Share with us your view on using Game Mechanics to enhance ELA. Also elaborate on your philosophy. :D

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