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This Web site hosts several music games for children of all ages, including “Musical Sketch Pads” and “Rhythm Band.” Both games involve selecting instruments and placing notes on a blank page, thus composing songs that can be played on the computer after their completion.
A post from David Warlick directed me to this site. Reality game about gas crisis. Very interesting... teacher resource available. What other simulations could be played in the classroom with students. Interaction included blogging, video posts, podcasting, interviews, and comic storytelling.
A neat Math site. Games, codes, math news, links, et cetera. Check out how this site might compliment what you are doing in the elementary math classroom.
multiplayer locally social gaming
Gamelab Institute of Play promotes GAMING LITERACY--the play, analysis, and creation of games--as a foundation for learning, innovation, and change in the 21st century. Through a variety of programs centered on game design, the Institute of Play engages audiences of all ages, exploring new ways to think, act, and speak through gaming in a social world. Participants call themselves writers, designers, readers, performers, teachers, and students. We just call them gamers.
Don't use the word "fun" to describe what will go on in the Game School, a proposed New York City public school that will use "game design and game-inspired methods" to educate sixth through 12th graders.
The facility, to be called PETlab, will work with Microsoft’s Xbox development platform and Think.MTV.com—the youth-oriented network’s online activist community—to develop learning tools and digital games that explore social issues.
Computer Games to impact social change
JH had a friend who started a mining company in Runescape where people could mine for a living so they could buy food and shelter. "But," says the wise, budding entrepreneur JH, "I got annoyed because he gave me a paycheck, but I can make more money if I make tools and sell them myself instead of working for him. So now we're partners, and our friends work for both of us."