Posts Tagged ‘wii’
GBL reflections
Posted by: ashleytan on: March 4, 2009
My teacher trainees maintain reflection blogs and I have been wondering if my strategy of using a game-based approach to “teach” game-based learning was having an impact. Thanks to RSS feeds, I got to step inside the heads of my trainees to see for myself.
Based on those who have reflected already, I’d say yes. Some [...]
Animal Crossing and literacy
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 8, 2009
Chris Dawson blogged about how a Wii game, Animal Crossing, might promote basic literacy.
[Link to Animal Crossing website]
Using his children as examples, he shared how his 6-year-old wanted to read more as a result of playing this game. I can relate to that because I play games on the Wii with my son and he [...]
Wii Web browser upgrade
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 13, 2008
GoNintendo reported that the next version of the Opera Web browser for the Wii will be out in December. Whee… and it’s about time Nintendo got around to it!
GoNintendo reports that the upgrade is free. I certainly hope so. I have a Wii and bought the browser channel for 500 Wii points (US$5) so that [...]
Wii? Oui!
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 7, 2008
Mindy highlighted three Wii gaming-for-education resources in her blog entry. I recommend them if you are thinking of incorporating game elements into your instruction.
Even if you are not, her first recommendation, is a very useful read. It outlines some strategies that teachers used to incorporate technology (the Wii in these cases) into mainstream teaching. These [...]
Educational gaming, anyone?
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 4, 2008
This week marked the start of the FITs (Focus on Integrating Technology) in the ICT course that I facilitate. My colleagues might refer to them as TIFs (Technology Integration Focus), but I think that FIT is more fitting because educators must figure out ways to integrate technology into curricula in meaningful and powerful ways. They [...]
