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Marc Prensky’s Educational Gaming Workshop USING GAMES WITH THE CURRICULUM

Date: Tuesday June 1, 2011

9:00-9:30 Arrival and informal warm-up

9:30-10:00 OPENING TALK with MARC PRENSKY WHY USE GAMES? DO THEY MAKE SENSE FOR LITERACY LEARNING?

10:00-11:00 TRYING A FEW GAMES ON FOR SIZE AND FEEDBACK  Opportunity to play some games for students
 *  Comma Madness: http://www.games2train.com/testbuild/comma/comma.html
 *  Bookworm: [|www.popcap.com/bookworm]
 *  Money U (Financial Literacy) [|www.moneyu.org]
 *  Slinky Ball []

11:00-11:15 BREAK

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:15-11:55 HOW TO FIND AND USE GAMES <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion of where to find games, and various ways to use them with students, in and out of class

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11:55-12:15 PolyVision PRESENTATION

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12:15-1:00 LUNCH – Continued conversation with Marc Prensky

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1:00-2:30 CREATING GAMES OF OUR OWN <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Working together to design games that we could potentially build and use ourselves.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2: 30-3:00 Informal cool down and end.