{"id":81,"date":"2009-06-23T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/languages\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:06:44","slug":"alice-and-kev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/06\/23\/alice-and-kev\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice and Kev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent an hour reading the blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/aliceandkev.wordpress.com\/\">Alice and Kev<\/a>&#8221; which I found via a link <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.diigo.com\/gaming-and-the-liberal-arts\/bookmark\/jmittell\">Jason Mittell <\/a>submitted to diigo gaming in education group.\u00a0 The author does a very good job of using a game to tell a story.\u00a0 Usually when people use games to tell a story they capture the video and add their own audio soundtrack.\u00a0 This is often called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machinima.com\">machinima<\/a>.\u00a0 This blog is a little different.\u00a0 It uses screenshots from the game &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sims_3\">The Sims 3<\/a>&#8221; along with text describing the scene.\u00a0 The story revolves around a homeless father and daughter.\u00a0 The &#8220;sim&#8221; aspect is relevant, since the creator has tried to create a situation that mimics homelessness within the game and then passively follows the characters and describes the events.\u00a0 It&#8217;s surprisingly moving.<\/p>\n<p>We will have &#8220;Sims 3&#8221; in the Arthur Vining Davis language classroom by the fall.\u00a0 Although this example is in English, the game itself can be set to other languages as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent an hour reading the blog &#8220;Alice and Kev&#8221; which I found via a link Jason Mittell submitted to diigo gaming in education group.\u00a0 The author does a very good job of using a game to tell a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/06\/23\/alice-and-kev\/\">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-81","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\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}