Games in Training URLs

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Games in Training URLs

PowerPoint Game Templates

http://www.sandfields.co.uk/games/

2007 TCEA "Learning Can Be Fun" at http://www.ccisd.net/dept_05/technology/itech_pres.ht

ml http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpo int/games.html

Variety of games, including hangman, Blockbusters ,

Millionaire, Concentration, Weakest Link scoreboard , along with timers, bingo number generator, and Wheel of Fortune spinner

Amazing number of PPT based games developed by the technology coordinators at Clear Creek

Independent School District. Game links are embedded in the main presentation. Includes

Concentration, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune,

Millionaire, and Hollywood Squares, as well as Off to the Races and Race N Review

Jeopardy, Millionaire, 20 Questions, (Hollywood)

Hillsborough Squares , Wheel of Fortune, Weakest

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Some of the same kinds of ppt games you’ll find elsewhere, but with some university examples and explanations http://www.internet4classrooms.com/online_powerpoint.htm#game

Variations on many of the standard game templates.

You may find an alternative you prefer here. There are a couple of unique templates here, as well, but they seem more suited to younger audiences.

Online and Print Based Games and Puzzles

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/chooseapuz zle.html http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrosswor d/index.html http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/mimea/smile/ http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.

htm http://www.almorale.com/

Create flashcards, download other user created flashcard sets. $20 one time fee

Create word search, crosswords, cryptograms, and other puzzles online. Right click the completed puzzles to copy and paste them into Word documents.

Free (donations accepted) Create crosswords for print or the web.

Free for academic use. Lots of tools including a crossword puzzle maker, letter jumble, and word jumble, along with more traditional short answer and multiple choice quiz builders. Print or use on the web.

$50 Branching tutorials in which outcomes are determined by choices made earlier by the user.

Free Online forms to create Flash-based Multiple-

Choice, T/F, Drag-Drop, Matching, Sentence Mix,

Paragraph Mix (or sequence ordering), Multiple-Select and others. Requires registration

Create and host six different types of games online for free.

Game Show Presenter is a commercial product ($80 for the basic version , $150 for the “Plus” edition) Has music, sound, graphics, and animation, done in a TV game show format.

Pre-Made Games

http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpo int/games.html http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/

Merlot —a great resource for sharing games and other learning materials. There is a peer review, rating, comments feature for all submissions.

Many science/medicine games in Flash.

“How To’s”

http://son.uth.tmc.edu/coa/FDGN_1/RESOURCES/jeo pardy_INST.pdf

Email rjoyce@mdanderson.org http://www.esu5.org/techteacher/powerpoint.htm

UTHSC Houston School of Nursing

– How to create a

Jeopardy game using PowerPoint

CCISD – “The Making of the Pond” advanced level

PowerPoint game making.

Template and PDF on designing “Multi-Q” a variation on Jeopardy

Games Resources

Email rjoyce@mdanderson.org http://www.learningware.com/ http://www.raptivity.com/ http://www.thiagi.com/ http://www.marcprensky.com/products/default.asp http://www.marcprensky.com http://clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/ http://www.simulearn.net/leadership_training/leadershi p_training.html http://www.vignettestraining.com/ http://www.learning2007.com/ http://www.trainerswarehouse.com/departments.asp?

dept=54 http://www.nasaga.org/webx/resources/resources_arc hive.wrp http://www.educationarcade.org/ http://www.spore.com/ http://secondlife.com/ http://www.gamasutra.com/ http://www.sharpbrains.com/ http://brainage.com/ http://www.bigbrainacademy.com/ http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/ http://utmint01a.mdacc.tmc.edu/dept/acad/c21.nsf/Sessions/24

?opendocument http://www.dodgamecommunity.com/ http://www.digra.org/ http://www.watercoolergames.org/ http://office.microsoft.com/enus/results.aspx?qu=timer

Wheel of Fortune spinner in US dollars

Commercial vendor of online games tools

Commercial vendor of online quiz, game, and scenario tools

Site for one of the better known “games in training” gurus

Author of “Digital Game-Based Learning” and “Don’t

Bother Me, Mom —I’m Learning”

Author of “Learning by Doing” and creator of the

Virtual Leader online simulation

Scenario based learning by Ray Jimenez

Elliot Masie’s annual learning conference, with a strong games in learning component

Vendor with game show buzzers, prize wheels, clocks and timers, game props, prizes, etc.

North American Simulation and Gaming Association links page. Eclectic and interesting.

Res earch and development of “serious games” and commercial games that may have educational outcomes

The creator of the Sims, Will Wright, is creating an ambitious new game, epic in scope, called Spore

Second Life Virtual world with virtual beings (avatars) with virtual properties, conducting virtual meetings and events for real dollars

Site for serious gamers and game developers. Has an education section that deals with teaching game programming, but which occasionally strays into reviews about games in education

“Brain Fitness” Game based programs for the PC and for the Nintendo DS that purport to decrease your brain years and increase brain “muscle”.

Game Theory and Instructional Design presentation from Classrooms of the 21 st Century faculty development program at M. D. Anderson. Good information about relating games to instructional outcomes using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Department of Defense Games Developers

Community

Digital Games Research Association

A blog about all things non-entertainment related in electronic games. Has a section devoted to education.

1 minute, 5 minute, 10 minute, and 15 minute countdown timers for PPT free from Microsoft

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