{"id":1098,"date":"2016-03-21T02:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T02:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transfer.writingcommons.org\/2016\/03\/21\/a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T20:56:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T03:56:46","slug":"a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/article\/a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Hope for Games in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_2\" ><p>Welcome to the newest episode of&nbsp;<em>Plugs, Play, Pedagogy<\/em>&#8211;the first of a two-part episode! Look below for more details about what you&#8217;ll hear, or just listen here. As always, you can also subscribe via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/plugs-play-pedagogy\/id909930552\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/plugs-play-pedagogy\">Stitcher<\/a>, or you can download in a variety of formats at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/plugsplaypedagogy.podigee.io\/4-a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\">Podigee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/plugsplaypedagogy.podigee.io\/4-a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"143\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Produced and recorded by Kyle Stedman (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kstedman\">@kstedman<\/a>), assistant professor of English at Rockford University, in cooperation with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/kairos.technorhetoric.net\/kairoscast\/index.html\">KairosCast<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/\">Writing Commons<\/a>. If you have ideas for future episodes, please contact me!<\/p>\n<p>Transcript is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1TsG6jICKgrg_XIUy5Da8Et-rXjsH5utGeUYdhQehg1g\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>&nbsp;(where you&#8217;ll find a lot of links to things mentioned in the episode).<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the first of two episodes dedicated to intersections of gaming and the pedagogy of teaching writing and rhetoric, both of which I co-edited with Stephanie Vie (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/digirhet\">@digirhet<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_69_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/article\/a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/#Introduction\" title=\"Introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/article\/a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/#Part_1_Ideas_for_Teaching_with_Games\" title=\"Part 1: Ideas for Teaching with Games\">Part 1: Ideas for Teaching with Games<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/article\/a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/#Part_2_Not_Your_Mamas_Gamer\" title=\"Part 2: Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer\">Part 2: Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/article\/a-new-hope-for-games-in-the-classroom\/#End_Matter\" title=\"End Matter\">End Matter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>First, to get us going, Stephanie and I discuss the tricky issue of gaming identity: what does it mean to be a gamer? How do those identities affect our teaching and researching?<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"part1ideasforteachingwithgames\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Part_1_Ideas_for_Teaching_with_Games\"><\/span>Part 1: Ideas for Teaching with Games<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Next, we hear from four awesome teachers about some very specific ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Custer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CusterTeaching\">@CusterTeaching<\/a>) shares some goodies from an entire class on games and procedural rhetoric.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Beale (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coffeebreak808\">@coffeebreak808<\/a>) teaches his students HTML with a game about developing a pro-wrestler identity, complete with D&amp;D-like stats.<\/li>\n<li>Phill Alexander (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillalexander\">@phillalexander<\/a>) uses&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/habitrpg.com\/\">HabitRPG<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;League of Legends&nbsp;to encourage deeper levels of participation from his students.<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Moberly emphasizes play in assignments involving paper-bag puppets (which are more amazing than you think) and&nbsp;World of Warcraft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Part_2_Not_Your_Mamas_Gamer\"><\/span>Part 2: Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Next, we hear an extended interview between me, Stephanie, and Samantha Blackmon (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saffista\">@saffista<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymgamer.com\/\">Not Your Mama&#8217;s Gamer<\/a>). Among other things, our conversation covers the benefits and problems of asking students to create digital or analog games, the ways she sneaks games into just about any class she teaches, and ways of dealing with the material realities of access and space when teaching with games. We also laugh a lot.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"End_Matter\"><\/span>End Matter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>My theme music is by Cactus May at Ohio University.<\/p>\n<p>You also hear some amazing music from the artists at OverClocked ReMix, an ever-growing resource for 100% free game music rearrangements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mattias Holmgren, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ocremix.org\/remix\/OCR01845\">Zelda Heineken<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>The Wingless, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ocremix.org\/remix\/OCR01447\">All Nations Rise<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>bLiNd, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ocremix.org\/remix\/OCR02587\">Dirty Coins<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Sir_NutS, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ocremix.org\/remix\/OCR02948\">Crimea River<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"template":"","tags":[],"chapters":[],"content_type":[],"class_list":["post-1098","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22271,"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1098\/revisions\/22271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"chapters","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapters?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingcommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}