- November 15th, 2008 - Derek Robertson - Comments: 7 Comments
»Tags: Consolarium, Endless Ocean, games based learning, Wii
Endless Ocean for the Nintendo Wii was one of those games that
immediately caught my eye. A wonderful world in which the player
can become immersed in a rich, vibrant and somewhat hypnotically
therapeutic underwater world. I’ve written about how I thought
it might be used to drive learning before but my initial ideas
have been put into place and extended beyond recognition by some
really creative teachers. Last week I went with Margaret Cassidy
from Stirling Council to Cowie PS to see a teacher that was
using Endless Ocean with her class: Mrs Bullivant and her class
of P.6 children treated me to an afternoon of sheer joy. I
walked in to a class that had been turned into an underwater
world that was awash with a tide of enthusiastic and industrious
learnning. - Streamers of various shades of blue were hung from
two lines that criss-crossed the class.From these lines also
hung starfish, sh