game bucket: game taxonomy project

Language Game Research

locomogis — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:48:06 +0000

I found some great resources for bi-lingual education games:

• Asia Society exhibition: Asian Games: The Art of Contest http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/asiangames/
This is an excellent resource– the Asia Society had an exhibition recently on the history of games in Asia which is an interesting contextual interdisciplinary resource- social studies, math, art, language
• Larry Fallazzo’s Websites of the Day for Teaching ELL, EFL and ESL
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
• Adapting Online Computer Games for the classroom http://evogaming.wikispaces.com/AdaptingOnlineComputerGamesfortheClassroom

There are tons of analog games that teachers have documented their success using, including:

I Spy http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1573.html
Simon Says http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1574.html
Truth or Dare http://www.theboxgirls.com/site/shoponline?product=truthbox
(ok- this is a product- but the idea of games based on conversation starters- ice breakers seemed to really work well).
The Block Game http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1575.html
$10,000 Pyramid http://www.ehow.com/how_2074849_play-10000-pyramid.html

And of course there are a plethora of online games. Many of the games that I found online had either the same goal, the same core mechanics, and/or the same look. So I took a bunch of my research and chose a few examples of good games or resources:

Flashcards with friend’s in Beijing http://askasia.org/kids/features/wordofweek/wofw_School_friend.htm
Free Rice(also a flashcard game- but with a social bend- comes in many languages) http://www.freerice.com/index.php?&t=282369104058&s=Spanish
Visible Traces http://www.askasia.org/features/VISIBLE_TRACES/games/languagegame.html
Zon (Mandarin)-role playing http://enterzon.com/

GENERAL LANGUAGE GAME PAGES- RESOURCES

Games in Spanish http://www.donquijote.org/Spanishlanguage/games/
International Café http://www.transparent.com/games/cafe/spanish_cafe.htm
Games in Chinese http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/games/games.html
Spanish language games http://www.languagegames.org/la/spanish.asp

Thinking around Game Station

locomogis — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:28:16 +0000

Design questions -

Should Game Station be something that gets populated when i search for a game – all similar games get added there temporarily and get wiped out on exiting the app.
Should it be something available only to members when they are logged in and remains there even the next time they log in?
What constitutes a similar game? What is the basis/ rule for this kind of classification?
Does a system of ranking create this classification?

More thoughts coming…

Thinking around sharing documentation

locomogis — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:18:58 +0000

Design Question – Should documentation be integrated into datasets and quests or should it be a separate section?

Last Screen

Thinking around data input

locomogis — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:11:45 +0000

Design Question – What if a game belongs to more than one subject – do 2 entries exist for that game or only one?

Search by Standards

Search by Game

research form prototype

locomogis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:08:28 +0000

form prototype

what we need : some resources

locomogis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:20:11 +0000

I have been doing some research on similar webpages and here is a good resource to move further with what we need in the website: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

yaay! prototype 3

locomogis — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:47:11 +0000

http://a.parsons.edu/~udays709/instituteofplay/prototype3/textbox.swf

tags for Q2L domains

locomogis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:35:59 +0000

game taxonomy_information map

locomogis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:00:38 +0000

data projects

locomogis — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:13:32 +0000

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/