Sitting having a beer in the Illicit Still pub in Edinburgh waiting for everyone who is coming to this evening's Gamesmeet. This is the first Gamesmeet session and it's based very much on the model that Ewan McIntosh established with his Teachmeet idea.
Tonight we will have teachers and interested parties come along to the event and they'll be playing a range of games for the DS, PSP and the Playstation (no Xbox this evening! need to sort that out for the next event!), Great fun will be had but discussions about the place in teaching and learning of the games that we look at will happen.
Some of the games we are looking at tonight include:
- Hot Brain PSP
- My Word Coach DS
- Maths Training DS
- My French Coach DS
- Buzz The School's Quiz PS2
- Endless Ocean Wii
- Sonic & Mario at the Olympics Wii
- Guitar Hero III PS2 (My personal favourite)
Pictures and more blog posts to follow......
Looking forward to seeing the playfulness and hopefully some interesting marriages of ideas tonight. And I can't think of a better boozer than the Still for doing it.
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh | March 07, 2008 at 06:21 PM
Hi Derek
Currently reading about the Gamesmeet at our ICT Conference in Kuala Lumpur. We've been discussing some aspects of games based learning this morning, mainly looking at resources which fit into the simulation area of the curriculum, Rollercoaster Tycoon, World Food Force etc.
Look forward to hearing what you got up to.
Posted by: Clive | March 08, 2008 at 05:09 AM
Can't wait to find out exactly what you get up to.
Sounds like a great idea: the sharing of ideas, successes and pedagogies mixed with playing the games .... and a couple of drinks too!
Perfect :)
Keep us posted, please?????
Posted by: Kim Pericles | March 08, 2008 at 09:18 AM
Good night had by all Derek. Thanks for bringing the soft/hardware- thought you looked like a proper rock star on Guitar Hero!
I think we can now start to plan a formal advertised and documented event.
Bring on Gamesmeet 2.0!!
:-)
Posted by: Tess Watson | March 08, 2008 at 12:30 PM
'Formal', Tess? Surely you meant informal and unorganised ;-)
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh | March 11, 2008 at 07:51 PM
Quite like to hear of games that folks have used on the Wii...
Currently have Big Brain Academy and have been looking at My Word Coach (?)... what else is out there - suitable for primary?
Posted by: Rich Olyott | March 12, 2008 at 08:17 PM
Very informative article. I just created a private blog where you can download PSP games, videos, music and themes. Email me and I will send you the URL and invitation code.
Posted by: 123psp | July 29, 2008 at 06:56 PM