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Immune Defense–the game that has it all–needs you!

Learning Technologies Blog

TEACHERS!   Ever wished someone had asked for your opinion, or your kids’ opinions, while they were developing an education tool?  Well, here we are asking!  We need teachers of students aged 14-16.  Any subject!  Read about our game and see below to get involved in our evaluation. Immune Defense has everything you could want in [...]

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Video Games in Class; A Professional Development Course-Part Two

Learning Technologies Blog, Professional Development, Serious Game Design, Teacher's Guide

Game Design Document Outline Part Two:  Integrating the design of a game into your lessons/Using video game design to get your students to interact and learn great amounts from a local scientist. 1.  Choose a topic you wish to address.  I chose “neurology.”   You can choose any topic, video game design works well in English, social [...]

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Video Games in Class–A Professional Development Course Part One

Learning Technologies Blog, Professional Development, Science Games, Serious Game Design, Teacher's Guide

Part One:  Integrating a game into your lessons 1.  Decide what to teach.  Start with your list of Principles and Concepts you want to teach in the semester.  Games are good for conveying vocabulary and facts, but their true advantage is in conveying abstract or complex concepts. 2.  Find a game.  Consult the list of video games [...]

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Video games in Class–a Teacher Development Course Introduction

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Video Games in the classroom-A Professional Development Course  Video Games like Immune Attack present scientific concepts in an intuitive format.  Watching a cell react to a chemical signal in a movie like Inner Life of the Cell is helpful in visualizing the concepts of cell biology.  But it is much more memorable if we must [...]

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Welcome to Immune Defense

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Our new game is a two dimensional strategy game called Immune Defense.  Seven kinds of white bloods cells can be bought and deployed in the never-ending, always-escalating war against 15 viral and bacterial pathogens. Part 1 of Immune Defense to be released February 1, 2013.  Part 2 will be ready for beta testing In June, [...]

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Association of Medical Illustrators presentation

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What follows is my personal history with Medical Illustration.  I was very proud to present my work on Immune Attack and Immune Defense at the 2012 conference of the Association of Medical Illustrators. Click here for my slides: Association of Medical Illustrators presentation, July 28, 2012 I am proud to carry on the tradition of [...]

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STEM Video Game Challenge and Teaching Youngsters to Program

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Hi.  Do you have a kid at home who is 8?  Or are you a kid who is 8?  Perhaps you are a kid who is 14, or 34.   What would you like to do when you grow up?  Would you like to help the environment, work for major league baseball, or discover something about [...]

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Stop reading this post

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And go get this free download. www.videogamesandkids.com Parents no longer have an excuse not to know what is up with video games these days.  Parents and teachers can also see what GOOD things video games can do! Seriously, stop reading this and go get the download.  Stop back to discuss it if you’d like, though! [...]

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