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Language Game Research

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

• Teachers.net http://teachers.net

• 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

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Casual Games Blog with LevelEditor Tag

This casual games blog has a “leveleditor” tag to note casual games that have built in editors. The easy of sharing levels is an outstanding question with each game, but they are definitely worth looking at for possible use with the school. Perhaps the game developers could be contacted for using them for the school.

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Math games to play

Here is a list of Math games that we have selected from those played:

Tetris (pdf) – Radhika
Sudoku – (pdf) – Chloe
Blockorz (pdf) – Radhika
Brain Age – Radhika
Yahtzee (pdf) – Radhika, Shipra
Blokus (pdf) – Albert
Professor Layton (pdf) – Shipra
Team Up (pdf)– Chloe
Planet Puzzle League (pdf) – Chloe
Yugioh – (pdf) -Albert
Tangrams – Albert
Launch ball (pdf)– Chloe

Here is a list of all the math games we have played so far

– Sudoku

– Tetris

– Blockorz

– Brain age

-Professor Layton and the curious village

– UNO

– Mahjong

– Settlers of Catan

– Age of Empires

– Diner Dash

– El Grande

– Puzzle Pirates (Bejeweled, Tetris, Tangrams)

– Yahtzee

– Planet Puzzle League

– Puzzle Quest

– Yin Yang Nitrome Games

– Rolly Polly Nitrome Games

– Team Up

– Yu-Gi-Oh

– Blokus

– Tangrams/ Tangramino

-Q-Ba-Maze

-Cliko

-Lonpus

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