I have noticed an interesting phenomenon in my classroom - the pupils have 'fads' or 'seasons' for certain programs.
As an example: dragonbox: try as I might, when I first brought this game into my room, there was resistance. It was 'boring'. Yet, this week, several pupils have been voluntarily logging in to play it during their 'free time', when they can choose any game they like.
The perennial favourite remains the 'Money Tales' series.
The bulk of the work we do still revovoled around Mr Anker's tests, interspresed with swf games.
One game that I have been insisting the boys play this week, is "Grammar Ninja". This is an swf game with three levels, and within the levels, pupils can be 'students', 'ninjas' or 'warriors'. I managed to download it and install it for offline use.
It isn't an easy game at the upper levels - even I was having trouble with some of the questions - and my grammar is quite good! I set the pupils the challenge of getting better results than I could.
The boys enjoyed the challenge of this game - before playing it, most had only a vague idea of what a noun, verb, adjective or adverb was, despite having been taught these things in traditional classrooms ad nauseam.
As an example: dragonbox: try as I might, when I first brought this game into my room, there was resistance. It was 'boring'. Yet, this week, several pupils have been voluntarily logging in to play it during their 'free time', when they can choose any game they like.
The perennial favourite remains the 'Money Tales' series.
The bulk of the work we do still revovoled around Mr Anker's tests, interspresed with swf games.
One game that I have been insisting the boys play this week, is "Grammar Ninja". This is an swf game with three levels, and within the levels, pupils can be 'students', 'ninjas' or 'warriors'. I managed to download it and install it for offline use.
It isn't an easy game at the upper levels - even I was having trouble with some of the questions - and my grammar is quite good! I set the pupils the challenge of getting better results than I could.
The boys enjoyed the challenge of this game - before playing it, most had only a vague idea of what a noun, verb, adjective or adverb was, despite having been taught these things in traditional classrooms ad nauseam.
