Archive for the 'educational gaming' Category

The King Kong List For Free Medical Online Resources!

July 31, 2009

“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”- Martin H. Fischer
After reading Dena White’s excellent post on free health and medical online courses, I realized that I have yet to compile a juicy list of free medical [...]

88 FREE EduGames & The Ultimate Post-Saving Puzzle!

May 29, 2009

88 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course
Flash Countdown Timer Generator

Unless you can decode the following text, and figure out what it really says:

ACLHQKHZW
It is not sufficient to only guess or provide the correct answer; you also need to explain the decoding process, or how you got to the correct answer. In other words, [...]

101 Free EduGames

August 27, 2008

101 Free EduGames – Part I
101 Free EduGames – Part II
101 Free EduGames (SlideBoom version)
101 Free Learning Tools
75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!

SLIDESHARE GLORY!
Wow! After discovering that my visualization of the No. 1 Musketeer has become a big hit on SlideShare, I simply had to take a break from my non-blogging vacation to [...]

69 Learning Adventures in 6 Galaxies (My First eBook)

August 6, 2008

Download the eBook (13.2 MB)

“69 Learning Adventures in 6 Galaxies”

At the beginning of 2007, I sat down to have a discussion with myself about what I wanted to achieve (working and academic wise) by the end of 2008. By the end of this self-reflective discussion I had managed to draft two hedgehog goals to [...]

75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!

May 15, 2008

ZaidLearn’s Del.icio.us Games Links
OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources
Free Learning Tools
Printer-Friendly Version

“Engage Me or Enrage Me” – Marc Prensky (2005)
“Never play a video game that’s trying to teach you something.” – Justin Peters (2007)

Terms like educational games, game-based gaming, and social impact games don’t sound too bad. But, Serious Games sounds awful! I [...]

99 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!

May 15, 2008

ZaidLearn’s Del.icio.us Games Links
101 Free EduGames
OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources
Free Learning Tools
Printer-Friendly Version

“Engage Me or Enrage Me” – Marc Prensky (2005)
“Never play a video game that’s trying to teach you something.” – Justin Peters (2007)

Terms like educational games, game-based gaming, and social impact games don’t sound too bad. But, Serious Games sounds [...]

INNOV8 – an Interactive 3-D Business Simulator (IBM)

November 15, 2007

Link to INNOV8
IBM Academic Initiative
YouTube – Sneak Preview & Innov8 Demo
Innov8 – FAQs

WHAT?Innov8 is a FREE interactive 3D business simulator (Free of charge to universities at least. Registration required!), which takes participants through the entire lifecycle of discovery, collaboration, optimization, and innovation of a fictional company’s business processes. It is designed to teach the [...]

INNOV8 – an Interactive 3-D Business Simulator (IBM)

November 15, 2007

Link to INNOV8
IBM Academic Initiative
YouTube – Sneak Preview & Innov8 Demo
Innov8 – FAQs

WHAT?Innov8 is a FREE interactive 3D business simulator (Free of charge to universities at least. Registration required!), which takes participants through the entire lifecycle of discovery, collaboration, optimization, and innovation of a fictional company’s business processes. It is designed to teach the [...]

Classtools.net (Create Educational Flash Games On-The-Fly)

August 28, 2007

URL: http://www.classtools.net/

“Create educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! ClassTools.net is a FREE website allowing teachers and students to create interactive Flash diagrams for learning and revising material.”
Learning while having fun Playing Games!This is an online educational game creator that you can have a [...]

Classtools.net (Create Educational Flash Games On-The-Fly)

August 28, 2007

URL: http://www.classtools.net/

“Create educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! ClassTools.net is a FREE website allowing teachers and students to create interactive Flash diagrams for learning and revising material.”
Learning while having fun Playing Games!This is an online educational game creator that you can have a [...]