Monthly Archives: March 2012

The 5 Levels of Digital Storytelling

It’s our pleasure to introduce a guest blog post by James Taylor, who has been adapting gaming elements (such as leveling up) and applying them to digital storytelling. Thanks, James for a very interesting blog post and loads of great web links and resources which you’ll find near the end – Some of them we’re [...]

Orpheus – introducing light and dark

Level: Beginners Location: Connected Classroom Skills Focus: Speaking Language focus:  Colours, numbers and letters of the alphabet Game:  Orpheus A simple yet nice musical game which tells the story of Orpheus who has to travel down to Hades to rescue his wife Eurydice. Preparation Play the game yourself to get a feel for it.  You can use a walkthrough [...]

A Low Level Reader with ‘Ant Hill Trap’

Level: Beginners Location: Computer Room Skills Focus: Reading Language focus:  There is/ are, prepositions of place, ordinals Game: Ant Hill Trap An engaging and visually pleasing game in which you have to help a lost ant struggle through obstacles and return to his nest. There are a lot of vocabulary items in this game that [...]