Here is a list of online games and related items that I presented at the Fall 2009 Business Teacher Seminar in Grantville, PA. Hotshot Business Game (Created by Disney) Design Considerations for a Cell Phone (at Edheads.org) Explore environmental and business impact with Energyville (by Cheveron) Download educational objects on topics of Business, Accounting, Entrepreneurship and many related topics at WISC-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center) For up to sixth grade check out Planet Orange for financial information and advice (sponsored by ING Direct) Brainpop is also

First is a web site called HA Games. This web site, which requires a login, has games focused on Algebra, Physics and the Periodic Table. Here is a screen capture from the game called AlgebraArcade. You can also check out games based on Nobel Prize winning research . These games cover the topics of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, peace and economics. This game teaches about Nobel Prize winning Chemistry Research. Here are some simple games to teach about energy conservation Here are the resources for my presentation at the SAME-TEC 2008 14th Annual Conference .

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are - a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. While doing so, I documented a few of the better ones. I’d

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. So here they are – a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. While doing so, I documented a few of the better ones. I’d

I had a lot of positive feedback on my list of educational games in my post It's All Fun and Games and Then Students Learn . So, here are some more educational games that might be of interest. Darfur is Dying This game is a narrative-based simulation where the player, from the perspective of a displaced Darfurian, negotiates forces that threathn the survival of his or her refugee camp. If you know of any more, please let me know and I'll post them. It offers some insight into what it's like for more than 2.5

Interested in building casual games for your learners? Read on for notes from a webinar today, April 9, 2009: Building Better Learning Games: Leveraging Game Design and User Testing for Results Our hosts today: Enspire Learning (Ben Katz) Doorways to Dreams D2D -- financial entertainment. Focus on casual video games. (Nick Work with and for consumers how to better manage their money. Nick Maynard) Skillpoint Alliance (Kristy Bowden) Partnership of profit and non-profit organizations. Games in a variety of shapes and sizes:

Here is a recap of some facts assembled by the Entertainment Software Association : A total of 254 universities and other institutions of higher learning in 37 states and the District of Columbia now offer courses and degrees in computer and video game design, programming, and art. California is home to 46 institutions of higher learning offering such courses or degrees. Hart Research Associates, more than a third (35 percent) of parents play computer and video games and 93 percent of these parents have children who also play them. Other states in the top 10 are: New York (21); Texas (20); Florida (19); Illinois (16); Pennsylvania (12); Massachusetts (11); Washington (9); Georgia (8); Arizona, Michigan, and Colorado (7).

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Or if you just like designing vehicles, bridges, buildings, consumer electronics, then there are a lot of really great games for you to check out. Coconut Run The Coconut Run Challenge is Issued. In this game, your job is to design a cart to transport coconuts over a rough and tumble terrain to a coconut shredder. WARNING: I find this game addicting. If you have an interest in becoming an engineer or know someone who does. Here are a few.

This week's Economist carried an interesting article about the use of video games at school. The article, Games Lessons , describes how Katie Salen, a games designer and professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, in New York, has taken the initiative in setting up Quest to Learn , "a new, taxpayer-funded school which is about to open its doors to pupils who will never suffer the indignity of snoring through double French but will, rather, spend their entire days playing games." quot; Not any old games of course, but 'serious games' which encourage children to explore concepts and issues while engaged in a series of challenges.