Serious Gaming Can Be Fun!
A serious game is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment.
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There has been growing interest in the educational potential of computer games. However, it is important to differentiate between different types of games, and the different motivations for using them - as a means of developing particular skills or conceptual understandings, as a way of building logical or critical thinking abilities, or simply as a more effective means of delivering curriculum contents. |
2Do It Yourself
Create your own interactive Flash resources, activities, games, puzzles, quizzes. With this software teachers and primary school children can create cross-curricular, personalised resources and use them on interactive whiteboards, websites and even on Learning Platforms. There are plenty of opportunities for meaningful learning as children plan, design, create, publish and play. Save your creations as html & flash files (SWF) & your resources can be shared with everyone.
Birchfield Games
Wow your students with these 2-D and 3-D formats educational games, preloaded with fully customisable question banks for all curriculum topics.
Making it easy for teachers to use with only basic IT skills required, the packages are supplied with Question Editor that allows modifcation of our questions, inclusion of your questions sets or a combination of both, to support students with special educational needs, or extend learning opportunities for gifted and talented students.
Each game provides instant feedback for students and will interact with Learning Platforms to monitor and record pupil performance.
Available for LAN (local area network) and VLE (Learning Platforms)
MissionMaker
Award-winning product from a research project by University of Oxford and Intel, with inputs from the Institute of Education, University of London (National Institute of Education equivalent), MissionMaker enables learners to become producers, not just consumers of games.
Developed the model of game literacy - defining gaming and game design as a form of reading and writing - the 3D game authoring platform allows students to create and play their own games by rapidly create visually rich worlds for their first-person adventure comprising sets, animated characters, simple dialogue and media. This creative process encourages strategic thinking and planning, and enables learners to hypothesise, build prototypes, evaluate and refine.