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Future Designer Laptop - ROLLTOP //Diploma Thesis// - The funniest bloopers are right here

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Virtual worlds in recent movies

Gaming the game

The challenge for educators in making educational games is designing the game to fulfill the learning objectives they have in mind while maintain the engaging aspects of entertainment gaming. While I was thinking about that (in class), Dr. Reinheart said that language is not an end in itself but a means to complete our tasks. I thought if we normally feel motivated to learn a foreign language when the need arise to use it to complete different tasks why not incorporate language learning in digital games as a tool to completing the quest of a game. In that case the game would not be too educational and would not lose it engaging nature as the focus is on the quest and the challenges that the player has to overcome, while language learning will still exist in the background as a tool to complete the quest. For example, if the quest for the player is to find a treasure on an island and to find the map s/he has to talk to the inhabitants if this island in their own language (target language) and get infromationf from them. Then, the player has to complete some challenges to decode the different clues in the map. To complete each of these challenges s.he has to learn something about the language of the inhabitants and use it. Thus, learning can happen and at the same time the player still have fun :)

Virtual Technology in police training

For the love of Egypt

Cultura on Facebook

Inspired by the Cultura practice of sharing photos between students from different cultures and commenting on them as visual representation of the students' cultures, it occurred to me that we can use Facebook in the same way. Create a group for the students from different cultures and students share their pictures with the group. Students are required to make comments that indicate the cultural significance of their posts and other students should make comments reflecting on how that aspects resonates in their own culture.
A good example of such posts is the video (of a song about Egyptian heritage) I have posted on the blog. PLEASE, Comment on the video and ask me questions.