{"id":209,"date":"2010-11-15T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/?p=209"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:04:26","slug":"games-for-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2010\/11\/15\/games-for-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Game for Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

We haven’t had many new case examples for gaming recently. \u00a0Peacemaker<\/a> is still very popular for Middle Eastern Studies and Conflict Resolution. \u00a0Ed Webb’s “Empires” course still uses my Civ IV mod<\/a>. \u00a0Fold-it<\/a> and Global Warming Interactive<\/a> are still used for a couple “dry labs” in the sciences. \u00a0But these are also all fairly old, and we’ve had some set backs as well. \u00a0Blizzard has cracked down on US players connecting to European servers, so I can’t play WoW with my students<\/a> in Germany any longer. \u00a0The Civ series has also been disappointing since the original Civ IV. \u00a0Colonization<\/a> was a disappointingly simplistic and stereotypical simulation of the colonial period. \u00a0While Civ V<\/a> added some interesting elements with the social policy, they also greatly simplified or eliminated economic issues of expansion, the role of religion, and the factors involved in bilateral relations.<\/p>\n

On the positive side, I was very happy to Majong Chem<\/a> on Bryan Alexander’s Twitter feed<\/a>. \u00a0It does pretty much what you’d expect. \u00a0Depending on the game you select, if you’re familiar with the combinations for elements and oxidation, solubility or their own charges, you can eliminate blocks by matching pairs of the element names, symbols, \u00a0or number of electrons. \u00a0The topics are all common in Chem 101 courses, so we’ve had one professor suggest it to her students for review \u00a0already. \u00a0I’d rather see a game where students had to apply their knowledge of chemistry to achieve some higher level task, but it’s a start.<\/p>\n

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