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Entries Tagged as 'Games based learning'

Little Big “Parliament”

June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

On Friday I was visiting  Hillside Primary School in Dundee to find out how they have piloted the PS3 with Little Big Planet. Lynne Donachie, the primary 6 class teacher, was chosen to be part of the pilot along with St Fergus. She has done a marvellous job of building her topic work round the [...]

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Tags: Curriculum for Excellence · Games based learning · Learning and Teaching · interactive technology · literacy

Glow, Glow Gaming! Games-based learning in Dundee.

April 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Here at Dundee we have acquired a number of games-based learning resources to be used in the authority. These include Wiis, DSs, Playstation 2s and Playstation 3s.
Following the success of making the Active Learning resources available to bid in Glow, we decided to follow a similar strategy for the gaming resources. An inventory was created [...]

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Tags: Curriculum for Excellence · Future Technologies · GLOW · Games based learning · Learning and Teaching

Spore Creature Creator

June 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve just downloaded and have been playing around with the new Spore Creature Creator demo tool. The tool has about 25% of all the body parts that will be available in the full product. It can be downloaded from the Spore website http://eu.spore.com/whatisspore/creaturecreator.cfm.
In five minutes I managed to create the Bazzaloffogus. [...]

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Tags: Future Technologies · Games based learning · Learning and Teaching · interactive technology · literacy