Using Alternate Reality Games in language education

[Kindersite Joel]

r.e. European Union funded education project





ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0  (ARGuing) is a European
Union education project.



The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for
motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has
also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.



The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a
story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save
the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and
internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers
and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In
the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.



The project has created a number of resources that are available online,
these include:

  1.. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes
multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view
inside the platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject
line of the email – TofB platform
  2.. A project website with additional information
http://www.arg-education.eu . On the website are papers to download
including:
    1.. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
    2.. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with empirical
evidence of results
    3.. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be
used for other subjects or cross-subjects
    4.. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the ARG
the project produced
    5.. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology
employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the
3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning
http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )


The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators
interested in using ARGs in education.



Please feel free to contact us with any questions.



Prof. Thomas Connolly

Coordinator ARGuing EU project

University of The West of Scotland

[hidden email]

http://www.arg-education.eu/ 

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[Professor Merryman]

This sounds like a fantastic project. Congrats to everyone for their hard
work and initiative. I have read up on it a bit but would love to learn
more. I am very interested in creating simulations for ESP teaching for the
tertiary level. My current project at Cypris Village is utilizing holodecks
and SLOODLE to create environments that enhance the classroom experience.

We have a few VERY talented people on our team salivating at the chance to
combine SL and Moodle.

Maybe we can work together to exploit what your team has done.

All the best.

Mike McKay
aka Professor Merryman

Mukogawa Women's University
English Department
BSeB, MEd Technology

Cypris Chat group website
http://cypris.ning.com


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[Dr Hawksby]

Great project. Will look into how I can use it in cross-cultural management.  Doc

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Kindersite Joel <[hidden email]> wrote:

r.e. European Union funded education project





ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0  (ARGuing) is a European
Union education project.



The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for
motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has
also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.



The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a
story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save
the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and
internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers
and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In
the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.



The project has created a number of resources that are available online,
these include:

 1.. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes
multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view
inside the platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject
line of the email – TofB platform
 2.. A project website with additional information
http://www.arg-education.eu . On the website are papers to download
including:
   1.. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
   2.. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with empirical
evidence of results
   3.. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be
used for other subjects or cross-subjects
   4.. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the ARG
the project produced
   5.. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology
employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the
3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning
http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )


The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators
interested in using ARGs in education.



Please feel free to contact us with any questions.



Prof. Thomas Connolly

Coordinator ARGuing EU project

University of The West of Scotland

[hidden email]

http://www.arg-education.eu/

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[Oaktrtee Inglewood]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Kindersite Joel <[hidden email]> wrote:

r.e. European Union funded education project





ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0  (ARGuing) is a European
Union education project.



The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for
motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has
also learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.



The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a
story designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save
the planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and
internationally. The project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers
and students from 17 countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In
the final pilot over 9,000 quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.



The project has created a number of resources that are available online,
these include:

 1.. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes
multiple languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view
inside the platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject
line of the email – TofB platform
 2.. A project website with additional information
http://www.arg-education.eu . On the website are papers to download
including:
   1.. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
   2.. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with empirical
evidence of results
   3.. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be
used for other subjects or cross-subjects
   4.. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the ARG
the project produced
   5.. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology
employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the
3rd European Conference on Games Based Learning
http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )


The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators
interested in using ARGs in education.



Please feel free to contact us with any questions.



Prof. Thomas Connolly

Coordinator ARGuing EU project

University of The West of Scotland

[hidden email]

http://www.arg-education.eu/

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