Games- Gaming-Sims for Education
Beverley Ferrell, EdD

 

 

Definitions  

Organizations and Research Centers

 

 Game Development Books
Journals related to Game Development  

Games- Miscellaneous Sites

 

  Games- Design and Development
 

PowerPoint Games

 

 

 Kids Sites

 

 

 

 

Definition of Games

 
Game Classification-  http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game.html
 http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game_classification.html
Skills

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game_of_skill.html

Chance

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game_of_chance.html
Strategy

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game_of_strategy.html
Simulation

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/s/si/simulation_game.html
Semantics http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game_semantics.html
Game Theory http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/game_theory.html

http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html

http://www.gametheory.net/educators.html

Game Theory History http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/class/histf.html

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/

 

 Zero Sum and non-zero sum

  Co-operative Games Complete Information Risk Aversion
         

 

 

Return to Top

 

 

 Organizations and Research Centers
AECT Game Forum-        http://www.csloh.com/sif/   

CALT-

 

 Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies

AcademicCOLAB.org http://www.academiccolab.org/initiatives/gapps.html
AcademicCOLAB.org http://www.academiccolab.org/initiatives/papers.html.

 

DiGRA

  (the Digital Games Research Association)-International
 Digra papers
GLS-

 http://www.glsconference.org/default.htm
GAMASUTRA 

 http://www.gamasutra.com/
GAME DEVELOPER'S CONFERENCE http://www.gdconf.com/
International Digital Media and Arts Association -

 http://www.idmaa.org/ 

International Game Developers Association

   http://www.igda.org/online/
IAGER http://www.iager.org/
Kaleidoscope -

Technology Enhanced Learning  http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/pub/introduction/index.html
Ludology-  http://ludology.org/index.php
NASAGA-           

 North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA).

Serious Games-

 http://www.seriousgames.org/
Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization's (SISO) http://www.sisostds.org
Irish Research Centers
INSEAD
Netherlands http://fragment.nl/resources/games.html
Swiss Center for Innovations in Learning

http://www.scil.ch/

more elearning than game focused, but has a conference with proceedings about change management for elearning
http://www.scil.ch/congress-2005/
Turkey- Simulations and Games in Education Research Group
http://simge.metu.edu.tr
University of Alberta http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/
WWild http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/  Dr. Rieber's group

 

Return to Top

 

 

   BOOKS 

Rieber, L. P. (1994). Computers, graphics, and learning. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark.
Rieber, L. P. (2000). Getting interactive with Authorware: Building simulations and games.
Clark Quinn's
Chris Crawford The Art of Computer Game Design
  http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
How to design games- http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/-

 

Return to Top

 

Game-studies- Journals- Magazines

 

 

ERIC Articles  

http://www.eric.ed.gov/    Search for Gaming or  Developing + Games

Game Developer Magazine  

  http://www.gdmag.com/homepage.htm  

 --- http://www.gdmag.com/freeyear 

Games Studies  

   The international journal of computer game research 

 http://gamestudies.org//index.html

International Journal of  Intelligent Games & Simulation  

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/ijigs.htm  

Innovate-  

 http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=2

IDMAA Journal  

http://www.idmaa.org/journal/pdf/iDMAa_Journal_Vol_2_No_1_screen.pdf

SAGE Publications  

 http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=34    search for "training"

Serious Games Magazine-  

l

 

 http://www.seriousgamesmagazine.com/CMS2/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

http://www.seriousgames.dk/html/resources.htm
Danish Researcher and dissertation site-  http://www.itu.dk/people/sen/

Simulation and Gaming- An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research-    

http://www.unice.fr/sg/

THE- Journal- articles on games  

   http://www.thejournal.com/the/magazine/search/?SrcRequest=games&sort=date&searchGo=Search

SALT--  

 http://salt.org/

Center for Computer Games Research -

http://game.itu.dk/

http://www.itu.dk/people/tltaylor/papers/Taylor-WomenAndGaming.pdf

 

 

Return to Top


 

Miscellaneous Sites- not classified, but alphabetical
 
   
AI   http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2005/refereed/hingston.html
Becta Information sheet http://www.champlaincollege.qc.ca/gasco/Sim%20&%20games%20resources/Online%20articles/computergames%20support%20learning.htm
Chris Crawford  http://www.theswapmeet.com/articles/crawford.html
Digital Library

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/kirriemuir/02kirriemuir.html

http://www.dlib.org
Digiplay Initiative - http://www.digiplay.org.uk/links.php
DMOZ-   http://dmoz.org/Games/Game_Studies/
Education Arcade

http://educationarcade.org/revolution
Elearning- games

http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/pedagogy/learning-design/2005-gee-video-games-learning-machines/


http://www.gamasutra.com/gdc2004/features/20040324/gee_01.shtml
GEM- thegateway   http://www.thegateway.org/

 

Gender Issues 

http://maryflanagan.com/josie.htm

http://www.playthingresearch.net/

Google
 

http://www.google.com/Top/Games/Game_Studies/

http://directory.google.com/Top/Games/Game_Studies/
IBM

http://www.research.ibm.com/gaming/

http://www.research.ibm.com/gaming/collab.html

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj45-1.html
JISC

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_ic_resources_standards


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_report_0201
John Laird- AI  http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/gamesresearch.html

               

Looksmart  

 http://www.looksmartonlinegames.com/

 
Merlot-  http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

Microsoft  

http://mgsuserresearch.com/publications/

Microsoft  

 http://www.microsoft.com/playtest/default.mspx

Microsoft  

 http://www.theworld.org/technology/gaming/index.shtml

MS AGents- 

http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/default.asp

Voxproxy-  

 http://www.voxproxy.com/index.swf

Mark Prensky-  

 http://www.marcprensky.com/dgbl/default.asp
MIT- comparative media-gaming links-

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/

http://web.mit.edu/cms/

http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/research-vision.html

http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/research.html

zork paper
 http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/

Mobile Games
 

 

http://mobilegames.blogs.com/


http://www.mobile-gaming.org/

MMOG
 

http://www.game-research.com/art_online_gaming.asp


http://archive.gamespy.com/amdmmog/

NCS

 

http://www.simulationinformation.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=6&id=20&Itemid=37

http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/mmo/links.html
Nowhere Road- Dr. Rieber's site- http://www.nowhereroad.com/menu.html

Pew Report

http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=93
Phillips Research

http://www.research.philips.com/newscenter/archive/2006/060104-entertaible.html


http://www.research.philips.com/publications/papers.html

Simulations

 

http://www.cofc.edu/~seay/cb/simgames.html

http://www.horton.com/html/exampleTestsSimulation.asp

www.hendela.com/pptpackage/Simulation/simulationtraining.ppt

http://www.forio.com/broadcastenterprise.htm

http://www.sisostds.org/

Sim Software

http://www.sosresearch.org/simulationeducation/

http://www.sosresearch.org/simulationeducation/simsoftware.html

http://www.lukol.com/Top/Games/Video_Games/Simulation/Ships_and_Sailing
 Steinkuehler-Constance  http://website.education.wisc.edu/steinkuehler/
TERC http://www.terc.edu/ourwork/56.html

Thiagi- 

 http://www.thiagi.com/email-depolarizer.html

Lots of "normal" non electronic games for adults and training The one above is from this list for email games.

http://www.thiagi.com/email.html

Teachers

http://www.sites4teachers.com/

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Thiagi Freebies- all types http://www.thiagi.com/freebies-and-goodies.html
Yahoo http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/School_Bell/
Vivisimo http://vivisimo.com/search?tb=homepage&query=research+on+games+or+gaming&v%3Asources=Web

 


 

Return to Top


 

Game Design and Development and Game Sites
Design a room Game-  http://ndm.si.edu/GAMES/main.html

Education Arcade- MIT  -  

 http://educationarcade.org/taxonomy/term/9
Gaming Toolkit- Role Playing   http://toolkitzone.com/index.php?id=3     http://tk3.toolkitzone.com/help/?page=30

you can apparently develop your own games with this. I have not tried it.
Gaming design tools

http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Game_Design/Development_Tools_and_Software/
 

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP/Extended/igames.html
EDHelper http://www.edhelper.com/puzzles.htm

Games-  

http://www.gamespy.com/

Gamasutra-  

 http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041203/koster_01.shtml
Java.com and related links. http://java.com/en/games/desktop/index.jsp  has a So Duku

Soda Constructor- http://java.com/en/desktop/sodaconstructor.jsp

SLOOH- http://java.com/en/desktop/slooh.jsp  Live Sim

Molecular Expressions: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html

Interactive tutorials http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/tutorials/index.html

Science   http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Java Tutorials from Sun http://java.sun.com/learning/tutorial/index.html
Javascript Games-   http://www.serger.biz/javapage/javascript.php
Javascript Games-   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pauker/
Javascript Games-   http://gnome-sudoku.sourceforge.net/
Javascript Games-   http://jonathanscorner.com/etc/furball/
Jeopardy   http://www.uni.edu/walsh/gameresources.html
MODDing- http://mods.moddb.com/getting-started/make-mods/
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
SUDOKU- http://www.brainypuzzle.com/
Puzzles and Sudoku http://www.edhelper.com/puzzles.htm
Studio- at UGA  http://it.coe.uga.edu/studio/
WaterCooler Games-- http://watercoolergames.org/

Muds_Moos etc.

 

http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Role_Playing_Games/
OpenAl http://www.openal.org/
Game Maker http://www.gamemaker.nl/download.html
3-D Graphics http://www.alice.org/
Processing http://processing.org/
Panda-3D
 http://panda3d.org/  (Some of the links at the top of the page don't work all the time, but you can download the main program and the manual from the download link in the middle of the page which is also..    http://panda3d.org/download.php
Jolt http://jolt-3d.sourceforge.net/ 


 

Return to Top

 

 

PowerPoint Games

 
PowerPoint Games http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/
  http://www.microsoft.com/Education/classprojectsarchive.mspx
  http://www.esu5.org/techteacher/powerpoint.htm
not necessarily games http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm   some towards the bottom
  http://www.microsoft.com/Education/classprojectsarchive.mspx 
  outdated links http://www.techtrekers.com/PP/
  http://academics.rmu.edu/faculty/tomei/materials.html  broken links every where..has been notified
Presenters Resource http://www.presentersresource.com/Teachers/teachers.html
Create Interactive PPT lesson http://www.thejournal.com/articles/14916_1
  http://techintegration.cciu.org/PowerPoint/#Games
Dr. Rieber's PPt Games on WWild 
http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/
 

 

 

 

Return to Top

 

 

 

***********************************************Commercial Game Sites****************************************************************

 

These are Commercial in nature, some of the game site forums have adult language on them.

Commercial Future of Games http://www.dfcint.com/gamearticles.html
  http://www.dfcint.com/gamearticles.html
 

http://www.parksassociates.com/
 

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/research/0,2310,cid%3D50529%26pre%3DY%26lid%3D1,00.html
 

http://www.bowenresearch.com/studies.php?id=3
  http://www.game-research.com/art_online_gaming.asp
   
Commercial Game Sites http://www.rpgplanet.com/
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/
   


 

Return to Top

 

Learn through Sports and Kids College  http://www.learningthroughsports.com/showandtell.asp?id=63573

 

Physical games- not digital-

 

 

 

Return to Top

 

 

Kids Learning Links- General, including Games:
    http://www.alfy.com/
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/
    http://www.brainquest.com/
    http://www.crayola.com/kids/index.cfm
    http://www.eduplace.com/kids/index.html
    http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

    http://www.funbrain.com/

    http://www.funology.com/

    http://www.iknowthat.com/com

    http://www.kidscom.com/games/games.html

    http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/

    http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids0.asp

    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/

    http://www.netsmartzkids.org/

    http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/

     

    http://www.pbskids.org/

    http://www.prongo.com/

     

    http://www.themouseclub.co.uk/flash/newcontent.html

    http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html

    Destination Reading

    http://www.academicchess.com/

    http://www.funranch.com/games.htm

    http://www.games.com/

    http://www.kidzworld.com/

    http://www.orisinal.com/

     

     

    6th Grade

    Discovering Collection

    Translation Machine

    Immigration & Information Fluency Links

    Harcourt Math Glossary

    Corbis - Images

    The Image Bank - Images

    Puzzle Maker

    Cyber Smart Curriculum

    Grade Six Resources

    Pictures of Places - Central & South America

    Country Reports

    United Streaming

     

     

    5th Grade

    I Can Be a Patriot Web Quest

    Patriotic Music 1

    Patriotic Music 2

    Corbis Image Search

    United Streaming

    History Central: Causes of the Revolution

    Amerca's Story

    Colonial History

    Career Info Find

    Career Handbook

    Careers on Kids.gov

    Wiley's Way

    Slavery Hotlist

    Slavery Timeline 1

    Slavery Timeline 2

    Slavery Timeline 3

    Colonial Williamsburg

    Chinese New Year Webquest

    Chinese Zodiac

    American Revolution Links

    Lewis & Clark Links

    Fact Monster United States

     

    4th Grade

    Texas Page

    Texas Landforms

    Texas Animals

    The Write Stuff

    Real Sentences

    Where the Red Fern Grows

     

     

    3rd Grade

    Europe
     

    Discovering Collection

    Drag & Drop European Map Puzzle

    Pictures of Places

    CIA World Factbook

    Country Reports

    Cultures of the World

    Maps of Your Country

    Learn the Rivers of Europe

    European Rivers Quiz

    Learn the Countries in Europe

    Label the European Map

    Push Pin Maps

    Make Your Country's Flag

    Spain, France, England

    GO Places - Time for Kids

    Countries - Kids Info Bits
     

    South America - Amazon

    Enchanted Learning - Rain Forests

    Rainforst Animals - Video of Animals

    Journey to Amazonia

    Amazonia Photo Gallery

    Amazonia Fact Sheets

    National Geographic - Amazon Flooded Forest

    National Geographic - Southern Amazon Moist Forest

    Animals A to Zoo

    Egypt

    Egyptian Pyramids

    The Inside Story: Pyramids

    Egyptian Web Quest

    Mummy Maker

    Egyptomania

    Facts About Egypt

    Egypt Games

    Interactive Egypt Games

    Africa

    African Wildlife Foundation

    Oakland Zoo - Africa

    Smithsonian - Pictures of African Animals

    Madagascar's Animals

    African Animals Diorama

    Savannah Background 1

    Savannah Background 2

    Savannah Background 3

    Watering Hole background 1

    Reading

    Destination Reading

    Kids Lab 3rd Grade - Main Idea

    2004 TAKS Reading

    ISBE Sample Test

    Math

    Multiplication Game

    Multiflyer

    Oswego Math Games

     

    2nd Grade

    FunBrain Word Turtle

    Rhyming Dictionary

    THESAURUS

    Inside Christmas in Mexico

    Christmas in Mexico

    Celebrating Christmas in Mexico

    The Posadas

    Facts about Tea

    The Boston Tea Party

    Math on the Web

    Fun School Math Paint Brush

    Healthy Kids

    Food Pyramid Game

    Color These Food Groups

    Bat Thematic Unit

    Bats for Kids

    Bat Facts

    The Constellations

    More Constellations

    Astronomy Reivew

    Shape Poem

     

    1st Grade

    Starfall

    Destination Reading Login

    Tumble Books

    Navy Oceans Website

    Squish the Fish

    Build a Fish

    BBC Sea Life

    Kids Info Bits - Sea Creatures

    Ask Jeeves

    Ocean Animals FAQ

    Black Bears

    Mockingbirds

    Frogs

    Rattlesnakes

    Penguins

    Kindergarten

    Literacy Center

    Destination Reading

    Primary Games Story Books

    Tumble Books

    Starfall

    Sesame Workshop

    Little Fingers Learning Games

    Candle Light Stories

    eManipulatives

    Music

    Instruments of the Orchestra

    Fast & Slow

    Play a Tune

     

    Math

    AAA Math

    Math/Science/Tech Quiz

    Cool Math 4 Kids

    Discovery School - Math

    Interactive Mathematics

    Houghton-Mifflin Math

    Create Your Own Interactive Games

    Creative Writing

    Giggle Poetry

    Art & Music

    National Gallery of Art

    Social Studies

    Election - Electoral Votes

    Technology

    Typing Pal Test

    Typer Shark - Click on "Play Online" and wait for the game to load!

    Cup Stacking - Typing Game

    Fun School Type Me

    Typing Ghosts!

    Typing Pal - Lessons

    Growing with Technology

    Internet Safety - Netsmartz.org
     

    Internet Safety - ikeepsafe.org

    Inside View of the Computer

    How Stuff Works - Computers

    Technology - Hardware

    CyberSmart

    K-3 Webquests

    3-6 Webquests

    Music Files

    Midi File Downloads

    Science

    Defenders of Wildlife

    Time

    Environment Site

    Visual Vocabulary

     

    Holidays

    Chistmas Stories

    Christmas Around the World

    Christmas Greetings Around the World

    Pumpkins

    Thanksgiving Word Search

    The First Thanksgiving

    Research Tools

    Search Tools for Students

    Citizenship

    Character Counts

    Miscellaneous

    Canon Creative Park

     

     

    Return to Top

     

     

     

     

     

1