{"id":42,"date":"2009-04-29T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/languages\/?p=42"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:07:48","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/04\/29\/42\/","title":{"rendered":"White paper on Designing Games for Foreign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravi Purushotma, Steven L. Thorne, and Julian Wheatly had published a white paper, &#8220;<em>10 Key Principles for Designing Video Games for Foreign Language Learning<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s written with game design in mind, the same principles could easily apply to selecting games for education as well.\u00a0 Among the key points that are particularly relevant for evaluating games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplayer games should allow players to have distinct roles.<\/li>\n<li>Games should provide some form of tracking for assessment and feedback<\/li>\n<li>Games should allow player to spend more time in areas of interest<\/li>\n<li>New concepts should be interspersed with other content and introducted gradually<\/li>\n<li>Learning content should be task based<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/ravi-purushotma\/10-key-principles-for-designing-video\/27mkxqba7b13d\/2#\">10 Key Principles for Desiging Video Games for Foreign Language Learning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravi Purushotma, Steven L. Thorne, and Julian Wheatly had published a white paper, &#8220;10 Key Principles for Designing Video Games for Foreign Language Learning&#8220;.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s written with game design in mind, the same principles could easily apply to selecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/04\/29\/42\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}