digital play: escape the room!
DESCRIPTION
There is a growing interest in using computer games for language teaching and learning. An 'Escape the Room' game is a popular type of game in which the player has to find hidden objects, solve puzzles and use logic to escape a room which he/she is trapped in. In this presentation, I'll be showing how this genre of online games can be used for effective language learning in different contexts (connected classroom, computer room, homework), especially with young learners and teenagers. The session will be based on ideas from the Digital Play blog (http://www.digitalplay.info/blog). Presented at the Virtual Round Table, October 2010: http://www.virtual-round-table.com/events/digital-play-escape-the-room Link to recording (Adobe Connect) : http://lancelot.emea.acrobat.com/p43788081/TRANSCRIPT
Escape the Room!Escape the Room!
Graham Stanley, [email protected] October 2010
http://game-efl.blogspot.com
There is a growing interest in using computer games for language teaching and learning. An 'Escape the Room' game is a popular type of game in which the player has to find hidden objects, solve puzzles and use logic to escape a room which he/she is trapped in. In this presentation, I'll be showing how this genre of online games can be used for effective language learning in different contexts (connected classroom, computer room, homework), especially with young learners and teenagers. The session will be based on ideas from the DigitalPlay blog, written by myself and my colleague, Kyle Mawer : http://www.digitalplay.info/blog.
http://www.digitalplay.info/blog
Why adapt existing computer games?
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Which computer games are good to use?
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Live listening
The Viridian Room
“Now when you lift the waste-paper basket, youshould see a lighter underneath. Pick it up and then move to the kitchen and open the fridge again.”
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Watch and say
“What should we do? Stay in or go out?”
“Shall we listen to some music?”
“What do you want to do now?”
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Listening/ questioning
“So, the squirrel has stolen your crisps?What are you going to do now?
Well, why don't you try looking at the Bookcase to see if there's somethingThere to help you?”
Escape the Room!Escape the Room!
Questions..?Questions..?
Comments..?Comments..?
Doubts..?Doubts..?
Graham Stanley, [email protected]
For a written version of this presentation : http://game-efl.blogspot.com Some examples from Kyle Mawer's wiki : http://kylemawer.wikispaces.com/ More ideas for using games available here : http://www.digitalplay.info/blog