A network for anyone teaching languages in Primary
Using Alternate Reality Games in language education
r.e. European Union funded education project
ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0 (ARGuing) is a European Union education project.
The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.
The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.
The project has created a number of resources that are available online, these include:
3. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view inside the platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject line of the email – TofB platform
4. A project website with additional information http://www.arg-education.eu . On the website are papers to download including:
a. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
b. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with empirical evidence of results
c. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be used for other subjects or cross-subjects
d. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the ARG the project produced
e. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )
The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators interested in using ARGs in education.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Prof. Thomas Connolly
Coordinator ARGuing EU project
University of The West of Scotland
Thomas@arg-education.eu
http://www.arg-education.eu/
ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0 (ARGuing) is a European Union education project.
The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.
The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.
The project has created a number of resources that are available online, these include:
3. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view inside the platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject line of the email – TofB platform
4. A project website with additional information http://www.arg-education.eu . On the website are papers to download including:
a. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
b. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with empirical evidence of results
c. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be used for other subjects or cross-subjects
d. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the ARG the project produced
e. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )
The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators interested in using ARGs in education.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Prof. Thomas Connolly
Coordinator ARGuing EU project
University of The West of Scotland
Thomas@arg-education.eu
http://www.arg-education.eu/
Tags: games, alternate, based, education, in, languages, learning, reality
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Jo Rhys-Jones on -
ooh this looks really interesting - I listened to Helen Myers at the Language Show last week talking about using Second Life to learn Italian and have bumped into a couple of Talkabout members in SL (literally as I have not got the hang of moving my avatar around properly still)
Will definitely investigate further - thanks for sharing
Some useful quick links:
New QCA MFL Units click here
European Portfolio & Language Passport
KS2 MFL Framework click here to order
KS2 MFL Framework click to download
Part 3 of the KS2 Framework - Planning!
Regional Support Groups info click here
NACELL site homepage
International School Award
Primary Languages Training Zone
Teachers TV
Number of visitors to this page since 1st January 2009
TalkaboutMFL on Del.icio.us
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material of whatever nature created by Jo Rhys-Jones and included in the Talkabout Primary Ning and any related pages, including the weblog's archives, is licensed under a
Creative Commons Licence.
Creative Commons Licence.
About
Latest Activity
I was trying to put together something on this and courtesy of the Sunderland MFL Christmas resources site put together this Smartboard Notebook file. It includes a Connect4 game to play with the pupils in teams as they try and memorise what they ha…
© 2009 Created by Jo Rhys-Jones
