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on April 8, 2010 at 8:17:16 am
 

 

 

 

Welcome to the World of Warcraft in School Wiki

 

Members of The LegacyThis is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of the MMORPG, World of Warcraft, in a school setting.  Please take a moment to explore the various sections of the site and if you would like to contribute, please email Lucas Gillispie at lucas AT edurealms.com.

 

The primary focus of this project is to develop a curriculum for an after school program or "club" for at-risk students at the middle and/or high school level.  This program would use the game, World of Warcraft, as a focal point for exploring Writing/Literacy, Mathematics, Digital Citizenship, Online Safety, and would have numerous projects/lessons intended to develop 21st-Century skills.

 

-Lucas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Status/News

 

(4/08/2010) - Sheehy - Leadership!

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(3/19/10) - Sheehy - Best Video Ever!  

(3/16/10) - Gillispie - Great Skype chat via Kevin Honeycutt with a task force from Minnesota exploring games in education.  Enjoy sharing our projects and more over our students' awesomeness!

 

(3/12/10) - Gillispie - Blogged "Pwnership" - observations of students before and during their virtual tour for the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference.

 

(3/5/10) - Gillispie - All of my presentation resources from the Learning With the Lich King Presentation (NCTIES 2010) are available at - http://edurealms.com/?page_id=154

 

(3/2/10) - Gillispie - Busy, busy!  Making preparations for conference presentations and such.  We'll be presenting the project at NCTIES and VWBPE in March, NCDLA in April, and at GLS in June!  Check our our first video, WoWinSchool:  Student Perspectives:

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(2/26/10) - Gillispie - Student Guild Page is live!  This website is student edited! Visit:  The Legacy Guild Wiki.

 

(1/27/10) - Gillispie - Meet "The Legacy"

 

(1/6/10) - Gillispie - Blogged - "Diving Into Deadmines.

 

(1/4/10) - Gillispie - We're back up and running following the Christmas break.  I'll be sharing what's going on soon! 

 

(12/15/09) - Gillispie - Blogged - "Reflections and Updates."

 

(12/11/09) - Gillispie - added a brief explanation of patching and game updates to Technical Issues.

 

(12/10/09) - Gillispie - The project forums are up.  I believe I've got the settings correct to allow the public to view them.  You can see them at:  http://www.edurealms.com/wowinschool .

 

(12/10/09) - Gillispie - Be sure to read Peggy's reflections on the Azeroth Academy - Suffern Middle School in WoW page. 

 

(12/9/09) - Gillispie - Patching 3.3!  Some of the changes should help the students speed through the early levels.  Deadmines, here we come!

 

(12/7/09) - Gillispie - Blogged "First Contact" - http://edurealms.com/?p=126  Discussing formation of a guild with Peggy's students today.  Got to get the kids to take even more ownership! 

 

(11/19/09) - Gillispie - Day 3 Reflections at:  http://edurealms.com/?p=101

 

(11/18/09) - Gillispie - Helga Brown has added another great lesson plan called Finding Mr T!  It encourages students to use communication skills to write detailed instructions on how to acquire Mohawk Grenades!!  Awesome!

 

(11/18/09) - Gillispie - Added some information regarding our experiences with issues surrounding networks, firewalls, ports, and such in the Technical Issues secion.

 

(11/17/09) - Gillispie - Day One Reflections at:  http://edurealms.com/

 

(11/16/09) - Gillispie - How do you get started with something like this?  What does the first day look like?  Here's our rough agenda:  http://docs.google.com/View?id=dr2v9jv_235szqnghr

 

 

(11/16/09) - Gillispie - Today marks the first day with students in the project at Cape Fear Middle School.  Today we'll focus on orienting the students to the project.  We'll spend some time discussing expectations and rules for participation.  Afterwards, we're going to discuss the concept of their role in the World of Warcraft, especially as it relates to character naming, race and class selection.  Craig and I have decided this portion of the day would best be done in a round-table format with some discussion of what a balanced group looks like (tank, healer, DPS), and encouraging students to take a team-oriented approach to character selection.  We'll also have the students create a character map that describes characteristics (or desired characteristics) of their avatar in WoW.  It will be interesting to see how that concept evolves as they progress through character development over the course of the project.  If you are interested in seeing our student expecations, you can view them at:  http://docs.google.com/View?id=dr2v9jv_234g8zr4wfn.

 

(11/12/09) - Sheehy: Still on hold waiting for Verizon to rewire outside line for Internetz...Frustrating for me - as well as for the students eagerly awaiting our start-up! 

 

(11/11/09) - (Gillispie) Spent a large amount of time setting up student accounts yesterday for the program.  This can be rather tedious.  Fortunately, I had help from Craig and Amy Lawson, teachers from our district who are both players and will be assisting with the project.  I highly recommend creating a spreadsheet to manage all of the data.  Should an account need accessing or be compromised, etc., you'll want to have this information available.  I've created a spreadsheet to do just that.  Here's a link to a template:  http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArBK9ina59d-dDM5ejJ4SjQwRTdvM0djc1J6VkJ6NVE&hl=en  .  To maximize on play time, we've used the Recruit-A-Friend option.  Each of the teachers involved in the program recruited five of the student accounts.  Once a sixty-day prepaid card is entered for those accounts, they will be rewarded with a free month of play (and a snazzy Zebra mount).  This will provide some incentive for their time investment in the project, plus grants each of the student accounts 10 days of trial time + 30 days of trial time (for activating WoW (original version of the game)).  Timing-wise, this should work out nicely as our accounts can then be frozen at Christmas Break and reactivated at the start of the Spring semester.

 

(11/9/09) - WoWinSchool and CogDis Guild in a feature THE Journal Article - http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/11/09/virtual-communities.aspx?sc_lang=en

 

(11/6/09) (Sheehy) Lucas- Be sure to use the 30 day free trial BEFORE activating the game-card.  (ugh-only did it once but still was a "duh" moment).  (Gillispie) - Thanks!  One of my former students and fellow guildmates actually mentioned that to me (of course it was a student!)

 

(11/5/09) (Gillispie) The remainder of my headsets and the pre-paid game cards arrived today.  Still no sign of the Battlechest. :(  The official launch date for the program at CFMS will be during the week of November 16th.  Also thinking through recommend a friend issues.

 

(11/05/09)  (Sheehy) spent 2 hours installing yesterday to find firewall and patches all need to be addressed.  Fabulous IT Team are taking care of that today  and we should be able to continue the install this afternoon.  Was fun to have my Mac IT guy create a Battlenet account!  Still figuring out how to take advantage of the "recommend a friend options" .  Also - I'm creating 12 gmail accounts to associate with the WoW accounts to keep things tidy.  Many questions remain-- will keep posting as they come up!

 

(11/5/09) (Malmstrom) Found this gem featuring "WoW in School" posted on "Second Classroom - Students using Virtual Worlds" Ning.  Enjoy!

NOTE: (Sheehy)  This was produced by our own KerryJ in Cognitive Dissonance!

 

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(11/3/09) (Sheehy) Suffern Middle School student's permission slips are rolling in!  Interesting that about 1/3 of the students we approached were totally disinterested in the prospect of joining an after school group for video games.  I'm expecting that once word gets out, there will be a much greater pool of interested students but we are firm on keeping the pilot group small: 12 students.  The criteria for selection was really based on the school professionals' instincts.  I am now exploring ways in which I can document their experiences while protecting their privacy.  In addition to game play, forum participation and reflection will be a fundamental participatory factor, and will include curricular connections driven by both teacher and student.  I'm looking into 2.0 apps that will facilitate this.  Suggestions?  Could be time for Google Pages. 

     Tomorrow the IT Staff will be meeting me at 2:30 EST to do the install.  Will post progress as it happens.  SO EXCITED!

 

 

(11/3/09) (Gillispie) Our order of headsets came were delivered today.  We purchased Plantronics Gamecom 367 headsets for the students.  They'll be using Ventrilo for VoIP communication.  They are extremely comfortable and seem somewhat durable.  We'll see how they hold up.  Otherwise, all 15 lab PC's have up to Burning Crusade installed and are now patched to 3.2.2a.  Installation was a long process.  Downloading the came client may have been more efficient.  All PC's also have Ventrilo installed as well.  Our WAN engineer was on site today, so we tested the impact of both the game and Ventrilo.  The game was using very low bandwidth, however, Ventrilo was capping out at around 80K for both in- and outbound voice communication.  I suspect that's where it caps whether 1 or 15 people are talking simultaneously.  Besides, you'll rarely have instances where more than one speaks at a time due to the fact that Ventrilo is full duplex and you'd be talking over each other.

 


 

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