Category: games
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Preparing for a week of Travian sitting
My son is off to Boy Scout camp next week, and he has asked me to “sit” for him on Travian while he’s offline for a week. This was the strategy he related to me today in his instructions for his “sitter.” Technically I am going to be logging in on his Travian account rather…
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Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade
These are my notes from Monica Martinez’s CoSN09 spotlight session, “Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THERE ARE SOME AMAZING VIDEOS HERE. POWERFUL IDEAS. GOOD SYNTHESIS AND RESOURCES. Grassroots Economy The Institute For The Future –…
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Free image editing options and student voices on edtech
I posted twice on the NECC 2009 ISTEconnects blog today: Free image editing options Student Voices about technology and creating the future Don’t miss either of the videos discussed in the latter post, “Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech.” …and… “No Future Left Behind.” Hat tip to Tammy Stephens for the first…
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A holiday lesson in ethics via Webkinz
Like a large number of North American households with Internet access and elementary age children this holiday season, our home was the scene of many hours logged on both Club Penguin and Webkinz the past couple weeks. After Christmas, we made a momentous purchase for our five year old: A new Webkinz Penguin she’s named…
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Podcast296V: Introducing and Explaining Travians, A Free Online Simulation Game (by 11 year old Alexander)
This podcast is a 57 minute screencast recorded by 11 year old Alexander, giving an in-depth introduction to the online browser game Travians.com. Travians is different from the singular Travian game, which he has discussed in two previous podcasts (linked in these shownotes) and is more of a simulation game rather than a team-based warfare…
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A new browser simulation game: Travians (not Travian)
My 10 year old son has discovered a new online simulation game called Travians. The game is similar in some ways to the war game Travian, which he played independently for the past year and I played with him as my own character for 10 months in an alliance we joined for mutual protection and…
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Travian is over after 10 months (for me)
After almost a full year of playing the online game Travian, gameplay is over for me on our server. One of the other alliances successfully built their Wonder of the World to level 100. The player “Steve the Spiffy” referenced in the message above was a member of our alliance (SE Meta) and the player…
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Delicious visual tag clouds, Classroom eZines, Wikis as files and Creating the Universe with Spore
I learned about several new sites and tools this morning thanks to conversations with James Deaton and Eric Hileman. Wordle can be used to view a tag cloud of a delicious.com user’s contributions, so you can get a quick, visual picture of the ways that person tags the web. Here’s my current Wordle delicious.com tag…
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Keyboard practice and racing with Typeracer
This is a cross post from the TechLearning blog. Keyboarding is an important skill. I reflected a bit on cursive and keyboarding on the TechLearning blog a year ago this month in the post, “The New Cursive.” Perhaps my comparison of cursive writing to keyboarding was not appropriate. The relevance of cursive to successful living…
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Coordinate plane graphing for Travian
My 10 year old son and I are continuing to play the free online strategy game Travian, and the game on our server has moved into its final stages. To win the game, members of an alliance must first conquer a village from the Natars tribe which contains the plans for a Wonder of the…