Monthly Archives: July 2010

Dressing Up Game

Level: Beginner’s Language: Have got . . . / is wearing . . .     Clothes and colours Skills Focus: Writing Location: Computer room Summer is coming and Digital play is taking a break for the summer.  We’ll be back in September with a lot of new activities, articles and lessons.  Our last bog [...]

Bow Street Runner – A murder mystery.

Level: Upper intermediate/ Advanced Topic:  Murder Mystery Language skill: Reading & listening Game: Bow Street Runner “This game is set in London’s Covent Gardens in the 1750s, and depicts a time when crime and vice in the city had hit such levels that the local magistrates began to introduce the first instances of physical policing [...]

Hetherdale

Level: Upper intermediate Topic:  Jungle adventure Language skill: Reading and online dictionary work Game: Hetherdale the game Hetherdale the walkthrough There is a mystery to solve and its your job as intrepid explorer Dr. Montrose to solve it.  Play the game as you read the story and find out the mystery surrounding the secret jungle [...]

10 Reasons Why Video Games Are Good For The Soul

Here’s a brief description of ten online articles about how video games have been seen to successfully teach or educate for real life skills. 1 Computer games make maths fun in school. An article from the online UK Guardian newsgroup about how a school in nottinghamshire is developing lesson plans and activities for the wii [...]

Total Eclipse – Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Level: Intermediate+ Location: Connected classroom Skills Focus: Reading/ Watching/ Speaking Video: 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive If you teach teen girls and you haven’t heard of Twilight, no scratch that, if you have been living on planet Earth and you haven’t heard of Twilight then get with it.  This teen phenomenon that has swept the world [...]