Student Engagement

Presentations from Bucks' Student Engagement Institute

Interactivity, Game Tutorials, Templates

• Demo movies for Respondus and StudyMate Author
• StudyMate Author screenshots
• StudyMate Author Quick Start Guide
• 26 Games to Change the World Find educational games geared toward making a difference in the world from Mission to Learn.
• http://nobelprize.org/educational/ Blood Typing and Physics Games. Games and simulations based on Nobel Prize-Awarded achievements.
• www.philosophersnet.com/games The Philosophy Games site.
• BBC Interactive Games A BBC History Games site .
• http://www.wam.umd.edu/~aubrycp/project/jeopardy.html Library Science quiz.
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stockmarket/playwave.html The Stock Market game.
• http://www.aaamath.com/g725-equation6.html#section3 The Pre-Algebra game.
• http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM156&page=teacher which details a lesson plan for understanding currency exchange rates using the “Big Mac” index.
• http://webquest.org/ This website is devoted to webquests-studies and projects that are web based. Worth perusing for ideas.
• Games Parents Teachers site sponsored by games2train.com
• Games to Train a Marc Prensky site.
• Mesoamerican Ballgame - an online journey of ancient spectacle of athletes and gods.
• Muzzylane Games - Making History game - students role play in historic environments.
• Playstation at UVSC Site that teaches how to develop games using test material in Respondus. Arcade game maker.
• Parade of Games in PowerPoint
• Puzzle Generators
• Games Workshop given by Beth Ritter-Guth, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Nov. 1, 2006. Beth created a Wiki for the games, links and PowerPoint that she used.
• Game builders: http://www.gamemaker.nl
• Games factory: http://www.clickteam.com
• Game Maker: http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html
• TuCows: http://www.tucows.com
• Virtual City for Teachers: http://www.teachopolis.org/

Game-based Learning  

• Digital Game-Based Learning Podcast from Richard VanEck: Generation G and the 21st Century.
• www.educationarcade.org This website is a consortium of educators from MIT and the University of Wisconsin creating games and researching media technology in education. This site presents some of the most sophisticated, up-to-date research in the field.
• Digital Game-Based Learning in WebCT - a presentation given at BCCC by Educational Gamer Bob Bramucci.

Collaboration Techniques

• Learning Collaboratively Presentation by Dr. Bill Ford at Part-time faculty boot camp, 2009
• Way-new Collaboration: Web 2.0 presents new ways to cooperate. This TED talk by Howard Rheingold looks at the evolution of collaboration and observes that it is how civilization has progressed.
• Interaction and Engagement. Learning science research and practical experience highlight the importance of interaction and engagement to successful learning
• Collaboration Worksheet Use this worksheet as a guide to detail collaborative assignments.
• Working in Groups and Teams. This is a thorough article by Dale Anderson that explains why teams work, roles, team member styles, and how to make a team work.
• More Tips for Working in Groups More help getting teams to work well.

Engagement: Getting Results

• Fostering Critical Engagement in Online Discussions - Really good guide to getting results in online discussion including a concise rubric for assessment.
• First Day of Class Tasks from Kelly Gredone, Business Studies
• 50 Tools you and your students can use to tell a story. Pick one that sounds interesting and give it a try.
• How Experts Differ Novices Understanding this concept will help you design more effective lessons.
• Engaging Students A list of techniques from Kentucky Department of Education on Classroom Management Techniques.
• Teaching Tips to foster engagement from the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia.
• Engaging Students during Presentations from the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia.
• Brain-Based Learning: Possible Implications for Online Instruction
• Toward Learning by Engagement by Paul Elsner for the Community College Journal, Apr-May 2002.
• Getting Results This is a great demonstration of how you can lead students to observe, apply and learn theory.
• Beverly King has written an article on active learning techniques: Think small! A beginner's guide to using technology to promote learning: incremental steps toward integrating technology in teaching can pay big dividends."