[game_edu] The Multiplayer Classroom

[Lee Sheldon]

And I'm not Ian (I'm older and grouchier), however like him I usually just
use Microsoft Word to write the syllabus. All four multiplayer classroom
syllabi are in the book. The class I taught this spring featured a fairly
elaborate narrative that included mysterious messages to the various guilds,
giving them different pieces of a larger puzzle. I used PowerPoint for the
messages. I also planned and tracked game logic with a couple simple Visio
flowcharts so I could keep track of the narrative and adjust to student
actions much like an ARG. Some of this is in the book, but it went to press
before the end of the semester.

 

Lee

 

Lee Sheldon
Associate Professor
Department of Language, Literature and Communication
Co-Director Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

From: Ian Schreiber [mailto:ai864 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:04 PM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] The Multiplayer Classroom

 

I'm not Lee (obviously) but the "software" I use is Microsoft Word - the
"rules" of the game are the equivalent to a course syllabus...

 

 

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From: Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv <game_edu at igda.org>
Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 11:19:05 AM
Subject: Re: [game_edu] The Multiplayer Classroom

Lee,

Thank you very much for sharing your work. What software would you recommend
- preferably free and open - that can help to support this sort of design
for courses, especially online?

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
919-388-1721

Make math your own, to make your own math.

 



On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Lee Sheldon <clsheldo at gmail.com> wrote:

My new book, The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game, has
just been published by Cengage Learning. 

 

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