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Five Reason Why Schools Are Embracing Video Games
More Context I’d like to make one more stop before continuing with the story of implementing Gone Home as a high school English text. My goal is to encourage educators to replicate the Gone Home...
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An Indie Education: Gone Home and Why Independent Games Belong in Classrooms
When Are We Going to Play? It was late October and several of my students were asking me: “when are we going to play that video game?” It was a good prod to get rolling and finalize the Gone Home unit...
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Launch Codes, Info Bulbs and Inventories: Prepping to Teach Gone Home
Coming Through with the Goods I was a week from launching Gone Home in my senior English class and the pressure was mounting to come through with the goods. I’d contacted The Fullbright Company, the...
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Gone Home Lesson 1: Writes of Passage, Annotating a Foyer and Screenshot...
Game On! The Gone Home launch day was upon us, and I was pretty pumped. Of course there would be issues. Some of the students might not like it; after all, the game offered no points, no badges, no...
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Gone Home Lesson 2: Ordering the Free-Roving Chaos
New to the Blog? Each blog post stands alone, but if you wish to follow the lessons in order, please start reading here. Pulling Levers and Adjusting Dials We survived the first session of using the...
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Gone Home Lesson 3: Sound Bites, Word Clouds and Vision Quests
An autostereogram. New to the Blog? Each blog post stands alone, but if you wish to follow the lessons in order, please start reading here. Second Week In We were in the second week of using the video...
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Gone Home Lesson 4: Bursting the Fantasy Classroom Bubble with Real World...
Terry Greenbriar’s review writing desk. New to the Blog? Each blog post stands alone, but if you wish to follow the lessons in order, please start reading here. Life After Play My three senior English...
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Gone Home Lessons 5 & 6: Spoiler Alerts, Disposable Stories and...
Students hard at work on their reviews and presentations. New to the Blog? Each blog post stands alone, but if you wish to follow the lessons in order, please start reading here. The Final Stretch We...
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Gone Home Lessons 7 & 8: Crafting an Epic Slideshow for a Purple Basketball...
New to the Blog? Each blog post stands alone, but if you wish to follow the lessons in order, please start reading here. Endgame The end was nigh. December dwindled as we approached the end of the...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: How To Turn Your Class into an Alternate Reality Game
Down the Alternate Reality Rabbit Hole New to the Blog? If you want to read about the implementation of the video game Gone Home in a high school English class, start here. If you want to know how to...
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The Ultimate Alternate Reality Gamified Transmedia Classroom Toolkit
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The Ward Game: How McMurphy, McLuhan and MacGyver Might Help Free Us from...
The Big Nurse is always watching. New to the Blog? If you’d like to read about the implementation of the video game Gone Home in a high school English class, start here. If you want to know how to turn...
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The Ward Game Part II: Admissions, Surveillance, Passwords and Role-Play
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The (Re)Ward Game Part III: Game Mechanics and the Two Faces of Motivation
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The Ward Game Part IV: Customizing Student Learning by Prescribing Secret...
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