tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43672022804484813382024-03-06T00:04:32.464-05:00Mr. Farber's Roomdrfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-74904950175810555072013-11-08T20:40:00.001-05:002013-11-08T20:41:05.044-05:00Playtime Online 23: SimCityEDU Office HoursPlaytime Online 23: SimCityEDU Office Hours featuring me as guest panelist! :) <br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yvVxIm0PGFw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-73309929439818696122013-07-24T19:03:00.001-04:002013-07-24T19:03:02.704-04:00Gaming for Social Good | Edutopia<span class="messageBody" style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.38;"><span class="userContent">Can video games make the world a better place? Read why in my latest Edutopia blog post, Gaming for Social Good:<a href="http://edut.to/14k19a4" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://edut.to/14k19a4</a> <a class="_58cn" data-onclick="[["HashtagLayerPageController","click"]]" data-pub="{"id":172775999536661}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/edchat" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_58cl" style="color: #6d84b4;"></span></a></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/gaming-for-social-good-matthew-farber">Gaming for Social Good | Edutopia</a>drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-31276386189161400212013-06-15T19:57:00.000-04:002013-06-15T19:57:05.103-04:00Beyond Badges: Why Gamify?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Check out my latest piece for Edutopia (The George Lucas Educational Foundation),<i><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/beyond-badges-why-gamify-matthew-farber" target="_blank">Beyond Badges: Why Gamify?</a>: </span></i><br />
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drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-4109566373138358572013-06-11T17:00:00.001-04:002013-06-11T17:00:18.126-04:00HotChalk Interview: "Teacher Makes Classes Seem More Like Video Games"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was recently interview about "gamification" and game-based learning. Here's the link to the article that appeared on HotChalk's "Inspired Teachers" page:<br />
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I am excited to now be blogging for <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/" target="_blank">Edutopia</a>! Check out my first post: <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/gamifying-student-engagement-matthew-farber" target="_blank">Gamifying Student Engagement</a>:<br />
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This week, my 6th grade social studies students conducted research about medieval European topics, then they each remixed, "modded" (modified), or created brand new flash-based video games. They also wrote a reflective essay that explains how their game relates to their researched findings. I used a completely constructivist teaching style, only giving students a short overview, then links to a YouTube tutorial and a PDF step-by-step. No actual coding is required; programming commands are put together by matching color-coded interlocking bricks, although practical knowledge of math (angles, degrees, x, y plane) is inherent in game design. Video game design is not only engaging, and part of STEM (<a href="http://stemchallenge.org/students/scratch/">http://stemchallenge.org/students/scratch/</a>), but it also challenges learners to consider how to teach to the topic they are tasked to study.<br />
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This video link fully explains Scratch's potential as a learning tool: <a href="http://vimeo.com/60294183#" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/60294183#</a>. Scratch is a free download from MIT Media Labs: <a href="http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download" target="_blank">http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download</a><br />
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Below are links to some of my student's examples (click each picture to play):<br />
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Our class-created book,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/corns-visit-13-colonies/id583368930?mt=11" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies</a></b>, is now live (and, global... in 50 countries!) in Apple's iBookstore! <br />
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Our book, which is historical fictional, follows Damitria the Unicorn,
Henrietta the Hippocorn, and Willamina the Shnoopacorn on an exciting
trip back in time to visit the original 13 American colonies! The book
features multi-touch widgets, like 3D movable colonial buildings, photo
galleries, an interactive student-created glossary, puzzles, a
sketchpad, and original artwork! <br />
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Each chapter and section is the result of collaboration from my 2nd
period seventh grade social studies class. Students researched and
wrote in groups, chose copyright-friendly photos, and created the
overall concept. I edited and compiled using the free Mac app,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=12" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">iBooks Author</a>,
on my MacBook. Each student receives writing credit on page 40 of the
book (thanks to each parent for granting written permission).<br />
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The book is a FREE iPad download. If you have an iPad, or know someone
who does, please download it! The students are really proud of their
accomplishment!<br />
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<b>The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/corns-visit-13-colonies/id583368930?mt=11" style="color: #1155cc;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/corns-visit-13-colonies/id583368930?mt=11</a></b></div>
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drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-21087702388613771142012-11-27T16:53:00.001-05:002012-11-27T17:32:09.106-05:00Understanding Economics in U.S. History <span class="userContent"><img alt="banner" class="" height="100" src="http://msh.councilforeconed.org/img/banners/middle-school-history-book-banner.jpg" title="banner" width="320" /> </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Just got </span><span class="userContent"><a href="http://msh.councilforeconed.org/book-overview.php" target="_blank"><i>Focus: Middle School World History</i></a>, a great book of economic lessons from the <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=143588665705100" href="http://msh.councilforeconed.org/" id="js_17" target="_blank">Council for Economic Education</a>, for my 6th grade world history class! The lessons </span>"use a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students." It's an excellent, additional resource.<br />
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Here's the link: <a href="http://msh.councilforeconed.org/">http://msh.councilforeconed.org/</a>drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-45677049867053739172012-10-26T18:51:00.000-04:002012-10-26T18:51:38.712-04:00Creating Interactive SMART Board Lessons - WorkshopTomorrow morning I am giving a workshop on <a href="http://smarttech.com/" target="_blank">SMART Boards</a> at <a href="http://www.raritanval.edu/ce/ced/enrichment.html" target="_blank">Raritan Valley Community College</a> titled, "SMART Boards: Creating Interactive Lessons." I've given the workshop several times at different locations, but not in awhile. Should be fun!<br />
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Course Description: Go beyond SMART Board basics - learn a new way to create eye-catching lesson activities, full of customizable tools and templates that you can use to create professional-looking lessons. The Toolkit helps you create engaging content like word games, quizzes, Crossword puzzles and sorting tables. It also offers Adobe Flash tools like hide-and-reveal, drag-and-drop, plus lots more.drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-39092196887428357782012-10-21T10:52:00.002-04:002012-10-21T16:08:48.951-04:00NJCSS WorkshopThis Wednesday, I am giving a workshop at the <a href="http://njcss.org/index.php" target="_blank">NJ Council for the Social Studies (NJCSS)</a> Annual Fall Conference (I am one of the North Jersey Directors). The conference theme is "Social Studies and the Common Core: Moving Forward" and it's being held at the Busch Campus Center, Rutgers, Piscatatway, NJ. My workshop is titled, "Social Media in the Social Studies Classroom," and will focus on building a Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) and using <a href="http://www.edmodo.com/" target="_blank">Edmodo</a> in the classroom. I will also unveil the redesigned <a href="http://njcss.org/index.php" target="_blank">NJCSS website</a> that I created, along with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NJCSSNetwork" target="_blank">Facebook fan page</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/NJCSSNetwork" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a>, and the <a href="http://njcssnetwork.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr blog</a> that I curate.drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-25824377638465026082012-10-07T16:20:00.000-04:002012-10-07T16:33:44.349-04:00I'm Published!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm published in the latest issue of<span style="color: #222222; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.editlib.org/j/JILR/v/23/n/4" target="_blank">"Journal of Interactive Learning Research"</a></span>: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The article I co-authored is titled, <i>Civic Participation Among
Seventh-Grade Social Studies Students in Multi-User Virtual
Environments. </i>Here's our abstract:</span></span><br />
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Technological
advances on the Internet now enable students to develop participation
skills in virtual worlds. Similar to controlling a character in a video
game, multi-user virtual environments, or MUVEs, allow participants to
interact with others in synchronous, online settings. The authors of
this study created a link between MUVEs and participation in civic
activities by seventh grade students. This purpose of this case study
was to evaluate how face-to-face cooperative structures would translate
to an online setting. The study also assessed whether working
cooperatively in a MUVE would have an effect on student civic
participation. The virtual environment did provide an authentic setting
for students to practice the civic lessons they learned in class.
Student involvement in a participatory culture generally translated to
an increased tendency to be civic-minded.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the to the article link: <a href="http://www.editlib.org/j/JILR/v/23/n/4" target="_blank">http://www.editlib.org/j/JILR/<wbr></wbr>v/23/n/4</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, here's the official citation:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zieger, L. & Farber, M. (2012). Civic Participation Among
Seventh-Grade Social Studies Students in Multi-User Virtual
Environments. <cite>Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 23</cite>(4), 393-410. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.</span></span><br />
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My course schedule was published today by <a href="http://raritanval.edu/communityed" target="_blank">Raritan Valley Community College</a>. My classes are on page 6 (under "Education") on this downloadable PDF: <a href="http://www.raritanval.edu/uploadedFiles/cce/cfa/personal-enrichment_fall2012_class-listing.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.raritanval.edu/uploadedFiles/cce/cfa/personal-enrichment_fall2012_class-listing.pdf</a>. </div>
drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-89870581554958052782012-08-13T13:57:00.001-04:002012-08-13T13:58:01.017-04:00Cape Cod Vacation Photo Book<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" height="425" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3D8IctWzNw0by94%26uid%3D000074830659%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1344880615000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed width="425" height="425" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="wrapper" quality="best" menu="false" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3D8IctWzNw0by94%26uid%3D000074830659%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1344880615000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0" src="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"></embed></object><br />
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<a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/07/30/37socialstudies.h31.html?tkn=RTCC6r%2BHufOfbe0OwJYn8pKYTLTzy8Qppb%2FQ&cmp=clp-sb-ncss">Education Week</a> is spotlighting <a href="http://sheg.stanford.edu/">Stanford University's</a> <a href="http://sheg.stanford.edu/?q=node/45">Reading Like A Historian Curriculum</a>. I began to use the materials last spring and plan on using it all next year, starting September. It's a great introduction to DBQs (document-based questions).<br />
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Here's the link to EdWeek article: <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/07/30/37socialstudies.h31.html?tkn=RTCC6r%2BHufOfbe0OwJYn8pKYTLTzy8Qppb%2FQ&cmp=clp-sb-ncss">http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/07/30/37socialstudies.h31.html?tkn=RTCC6r%2BHufOfbe0OwJYn8pKYTLTzy8Qppb%2FQ&cmp=clp-sb-ncss</a><br />
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Here's the link to the curriculum materials: <a href="http://sheg.stanford.edu/?q=node/45">http://sheg.stanford.edu/?q=node/45</a><br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/OFzXaFbxDcM">Mister Rogers Remixed - Garden of Your Mind</a>, remixed by Symphony of Science's John Boswell.drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-36920255362849705442012-05-23T10:04:00.000-04:002012-05-23T11:57:32.541-04:00Age of Exploration Movie TrailersMy 6th Grade students each used <a href="http://animoto.com/education">Animoto</a> to create movie trailers about an explorer during the Age of Exploration. They also made digital posters and a description of their "film."
Here's a few examples of their work:
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I am proud to announce that I was nominated to be recognized in the New Jersey Higher Education’s <i>Showcase of Exemplary Practices: Excellence in Teacher </i><i>Preparation</i>
for my "distinguished work as a New Jersey Educator." An awards
ceremony and reception will be held at the Chauncey Hotel and Conference
Center in Princeton on Friday, April 20, 2012. The purpose of the
event is "to recognize exemplary programs and practices in teacher
preparation in New Jersey, share them within the teacher education
community, and disseminate them across the state." The event is
sponsored by Acting Secretary of Higher Education Rochelle Hendricks
and the New Jersey Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The
audience includes teacher educators, New Jersey Departments of Higher
Education and Education staff members, policymakers, funders, media, and
other stakeholders.drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-54350810572875605102012-04-17T11:15:00.004-04:002012-04-17T13:25:57.089-04:00Using "Assassin's Creed" to Teach the Renaissance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg78dIQyHn0jv6SifVGLqRCzIoyTKqOkb_lZjnH6h1nLfVogP01xFAYLslGRve75m-7eWrSzjxV-fLXFwXrj2wTirLzcYPuwsYcdQzE7m6mWZJVr4cIqX1oZ-R2Upyy6ioLro54WXfkbDbJ/s1600/unfinished+Mona+Lisa.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs_sWY_sVG3RDCn566HwYR-7kkyfequXQX2z4fGWB0eeyRNiEAv70RyB26-ZtNaC5eNsZLdkKGIfzRKfeAdillHDqmECh7H7aB2mUpAA8Edo1F5trRIoJEA9crjZoFeBY9KLsj16uXR9Xp/s1600/500x_accreed_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs_sWY_sVG3RDCn566HwYR-7kkyfequXQX2z4fGWB0eeyRNiEAv70RyB26-ZtNaC5eNsZLdkKGIfzRKfeAdillHDqmECh7H7aB2mUpAA8Edo1F5trRIoJEA9crjZoFeBY9KLsj16uXR9Xp/s200/500x_accreed_01.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Media Literacy</b></span><br />
This project was inspired by <a href="http://henryjenkins.org/aboutme.html" target="_blank">Dr. Henry Jenkins'</a> book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Convergence-Culture-Where-Media-Collide/dp/0814742815" target="_blank">Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide</a>.</i> <a href="http://henryjenkins.org/aboutme.html" target="_blank">Jenkins</a> writes about "participatory" fan communities, such <a href="http://fanfiction.net/">fanfiction.net</a> and the unofficial Harry Potter fan site, <a href="http://www.mugglenet.com/" target="_blank">MuggleNet</a>, in his white paper, <a href="http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF" target="_blank">"Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.</a> A new collection of fan-made wiki sites, devoted to movies, books, video games, etc. can be found on the site <a href="http://www.wikia.com/Wikia" target="_blank">Wikia</a>. <a href="http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF" target="_blank"></a> <br />
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According to Jenkins, the New Media Literacies (NML) project "argues that media literacy skills, broadly defined, need to be integrated into school-based and after-school programs, into adult education for parents and teachers and into popular culture itself if we are going to fully address the challenges of this moment of media in transition." For more, check out NML on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/nml_usc">@nml_usc</a>, their website, <a href="http://newmedialiteracies.org/">newmedialiteracies.org</a>, or Jenkins' blog: <a href="http://henryjenkins.org/index.html">henryjenkins.org</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Background</b></span> <br />
"Inspired by Historical Events and Characters." This is how each game in the popular<i> </i>open-world, third-party, role-playing game (RPG) <a href="http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/revelations/en-GB/home/" target="_blank"><i>Assassin's Creed </i>series</a>, available on Xbox 360 and PS3, begins. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The <a href="http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/revelations/en-GB/home/" target="_blank"><i>Assassin’s Creed</i></a> series of video games is an example of historical fiction. </span></span>In historical fiction the "setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fiction">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fiction</a>). Examples of historical fiction range from the film "Titanic," to "Saving Private Ryan," to video games, such as "Assassin's Creed."<br />
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The storyline of the <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/revelations/en-GB/home/" target="_blank"><i>Assassin’s Creed</i></a></span></span> is essentially "The Matrix" meets "The DaVinci Code." <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here is the link for the game series, published by Ubisoft: <a href="http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/revelations/en-GB/home/">assassinscreed.ubi.com</a>. Check out this </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">clip in which <i>Assassin's Creed Revelations' </i>lead script writer Darby McDevitt talks about the historical setting and people that lead character Ezio meets in the game </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Assassin’s Creed: Revelations</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Kn-310RoBMY" style="color: blue;">youtu.be/Kn-310RoBMY</a>. </span></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="215" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kn-310RoBMY?rel=0" width="360"></iframe></div>Below is a picture of Leonardo DaVinci with Ezio, the lead character of the games. Also appearing in the game series are Machiavelli, Copernicus, popes, members of the Borgia's, and the Medici's.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg78dIQyHn0jv6SifVGLqRCzIoyTKqOkb_lZjnH6h1nLfVogP01xFAYLslGRve75m-7eWrSzjxV-fLXFwXrj2wTirLzcYPuwsYcdQzE7m6mWZJVr4cIqX1oZ-R2Upyy6ioLro54WXfkbDbJ/s1600/unfinished+Mona+Lisa.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg78dIQyHn0jv6SifVGLqRCzIoyTKqOkb_lZjnH6h1nLfVogP01xFAYLslGRve75m-7eWrSzjxV-fLXFwXrj2wTirLzcYPuwsYcdQzE7m6mWZJVr4cIqX1oZ-R2Upyy6ioLro54WXfkbDbJ/s320/unfinished+Mona+Lisa.png" width="320" /></a></div>Included in the game are "databases," in which players are given historical information about people and places from the time period. Below is a screenshot from one of the game's many "databases" in <i>Assassin's Creed II</i>:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Using "Assassin's Creed" to Teach the Renaissance </b></span><br />
This spring, I constructed a project-based lesson (PBL) titled <span style="font-size: small;"><b>The <i>Assassin's Creed: Renaissance</i> Character Web Project. </b>This PBL is</span> framed around creating additional Renaissance-era characters to further integrate into the video game series via downloadable content. The students were asked, "what if Ubisoft decided to integrate other real Renaissance figures as characters in the game?" <span style="font-size: small;">The unit is tied to historical fiction, which makes history more "real" and relatable to middle school students. My 6th grade social studies student teams created character pages on a wiki. (Not sure what a wiki is? Watch this: <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis">www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis</a></span><span style="font-size: small;">)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Links to my student's finished wiki pages:</b></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52325681/AC%3ARen1" target="_blank">farber7th.pbworks.com/ACRen1</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52325722/AC%3ARen2" target="_blank">farber7th.pbworks.com/ACRen2</a> </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Examples of My Sixth-Grader's Downloadable Character Wikis:</b></span><br />
<ul><li><b><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52339050/AC%3ARen2%20-%20Leonardo%20da%20Vinci" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Leonardo da Vinci</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52339008/AC%3ARen2%20-%20Dante%20Alighieri" target="_blank">Dante Alighieri </a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52339235/AC%3ARen1%20-%20Galileo%20Galilei" target="_blank">Galileo Galilei</a> </span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52339229/AC%3ARen1%20-%20Nicholas%20Copernicus" target="_blank">Nicholas Copernicus</a></span></b></li>
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;">Niccolò </span></a></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://farber7th.pbworks.com/w/page/52339075/AC%3ARen2%20-%20Machiavelli" target="_blank">Machiavelli</a></span></b></li>
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</ul>drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367202280448481338.post-24320672410882417622012-04-15T09:10:00.000-04:002012-04-15T09:10:29.901-04:00Mall Pride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqeQ031OSoT7eIGpmeirTlw_2LcT-bjx6SEaSSFWH8vDurf4KwXDZasK2AUoFn__JC6CBFOdvYB7ot_l4fy4GVjhBK_Yf8-zrUqqiOPn_BW6MUZtaXn6KYPgK5IaMRoOnVKBN1BPQcdtFl/s1600/rockaway-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqeQ031OSoT7eIGpmeirTlw_2LcT-bjx6SEaSSFWH8vDurf4KwXDZasK2AUoFn__JC6CBFOdvYB7ot_l4fy4GVjhBK_Yf8-zrUqqiOPn_BW6MUZtaXn6KYPgK5IaMRoOnVKBN1BPQcdtFl/s200/rockaway-1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>If you live near the <a href="http://www.simon.com/mall/?id=116" target="_blank">Rockaway Mall</a>, in Rockaway, NJ, check out the <a href="http://www.mccea.com/" target="_blank"><span class="st">Morris County Council of Education Associations, Inc.</span> (MCCEA)</a> "Mall Pride" display of county-wide student work! Some of my 6th Grade's <i>Asia: Then and Now</i> scrapbooks are on display. Our table placement is: upper floor right in front of Precision Time and Godiva Chocolate. The display runs until April 22.drfarberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558690872809051883noreply@blogger.com