Gamification to encourage learner autonomy

This post tries to pull together a couple of things I have been thinking about recently. The first was a post I saw on the 21st Century Flue...

3D Computer Games with Young Learners: Spore

In a recent digital skills survey I carried out using Urtak I discovered that more than 50% of digitally skilled teachers don't feel abl...

Adventure Narratives for EFL ESL Students

For a long time now I've really admired and been fascinated by the work of Amanita Design . They have a really unique approach and I lov...

Games With a Purpose and a Social Network

Well who would believe it? A social network built around playing word games with online partners! This may not sound like a great idea, but ...

3B Village 3D browser

I spotted 3B Village about a year ago and initially I was impressed, but some recent developments have, I feel, put this on the map as a re...

Create your own game

This is something that caught my eye last week. I just couldn't resist adding a feature about it here, though I think this does come wit...

Exploiting two computer-based RPGs

In this article I’d like to look at how we could use two computer based RPGs (Role playing games) as the basis for language development. The...

Looking at There.com

For a while now I’ve been a fan of the virtual 3D world There.com . Although it isn’t as developed and hasn’t had a fraction of the publici...