When I was twelve, every week was the same. I would spend Sunday to Friday night looking for quarters. I had one goal: to spend Saturday morning at the grocery store playing Pac-Man, while my mom got our weeks worth of food. The game was way up front by the doors and I remember many times as my mom waited for me to finish. I memorized the pattern of that game and can still clear levels from memory.
As a parent, I watch my son play hours of PS3 or get online to play games. I have tried to get into the PS3, but to no avail However, this weekend I started playing this online game. I showed my son and saved the site to my diigo bookmarks. Zach was all over it and to my surprise, I was as well. The game is called "GoodGame Empire" found at http://empire.goodgamestudios.com/ . It is free and based on the Middle Ages. Kinda a SimCity of the Medieval period. BTW, if you start playing look me up dgholman, my screen name and castle.
As a parent, I watch my son play hours of PS3 or get online to play games. I have tried to get into the PS3, but to no avail However, this weekend I started playing this online game. I showed my son and saved the site to my diigo bookmarks. Zach was all over it and to my surprise, I was as well. The game is called "GoodGame Empire" found at http://empire.goodgamestudios.com/ . It is free and based on the Middle Ages. Kinda a SimCity of the Medieval period. BTW, if you start playing look me up dgholman, my screen name and castle.
I am teaching about the middle ages right now at school. Mike and I use the Middle Age Webquest (an autonomous mastery learning model--read about it here and see the live version here)
for student learning. So, anyways I posted this link to my Diigo and shared with the MrHolman/Pennington group. I was sure no one would read it on a three day holiday weekend, and a snow day as well. However, when I went to school today, seven kids came to see me right away (all boys) and had started building their manors and wanted to show me. They all had stories of battles and what they had built and what they planed to do next. They were learning economics, military strategy, jobs, following directions and solving problems with a limited number of resources. Below are a few images of there manors by day three or four.
I started an alliance to help my son, but now everyone from school is joining so we work together to hold our own or expand our empires with about 70,000 other castles (individual players) in the game: we will work together to achieve some online goals. I will keep you posted and update our progress and pitfalls, but CLEARLY they read that diigo feed, even on weekends. That is cool and as Zach says, "Dad, these are not the stupid games you used to play." He is right:)
for student learning. So, anyways I posted this link to my Diigo and shared with the MrHolman/Pennington group. I was sure no one would read it on a three day holiday weekend, and a snow day as well. However, when I went to school today, seven kids came to see me right away (all boys) and had started building their manors and wanted to show me. They all had stories of battles and what they had built and what they planed to do next. They were learning economics, military strategy, jobs, following directions and solving problems with a limited number of resources. Below are a few images of there manors by day three or four.
I started an alliance to help my son, but now everyone from school is joining so we work together to hold our own or expand our empires with about 70,000 other castles (individual players) in the game: we will work together to achieve some online goals. I will keep you posted and update our progress and pitfalls, but CLEARLY they read that diigo feed, even on weekends. That is cool and as Zach says, "Dad, these are not the stupid games you used to play." He is right:)
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