What's
an Email Game?
Yep, you guessed it---these use ordinary email.
These are usually turn-based---for example,
I use one called "Quack, Quack, Quack!" to
teach information competency skills in Psychology.
- First I email everyone a rubric on
how to rank the quality of information on a web site.
- Then students use search engine to
find the WORST Psychology web page they can find,
content wise, and email the URLs to me.
- I create a gallery of the sites and
each student votes for the class's "Golden
Turkey" Psychology web site award.
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Flying
Buffalo:
Flying
Buffalo offers some free email games for teachers.
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Play by Email (PBM) Games
The
Play-by-email games list
Play-by-email games list provides a
comprehensive list of email games. However,
these aren't specifically for eduction, so you'll
have to use you ingenuity to adapt them. |
Thiagi
Thiagi and her colleagues have written several
treatises on email games.
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