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Edutainment
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Local Link --- ../../000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Bob Jensen
Emeritus Professor of Accounting
Trinity University in San Antonio
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
603-823-8482
[email protected]
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/
“Therein
lies the real trouble. Learning is labor. We're selling the
fantasy that technology can change that. It can’t. No technology
ever has. Gutenberg’s press only made it easier to print books, not
easier to read and understand them.”
Peter Berger, "The Land of iPods and Honey," The Irascible Professor, February 26, 2007 --- at
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-02-26-07.htm
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David Fordham’s Jeopardy Games
http://cob.jmu.edu/fordham/AECM1.htm
One of the simplest, yet most unusual, applications I use for
PowerPoint is my own parody of the Jeopardy game. If you
download it and try it, I think you'll have to agree it is ultrasimple, downright embarrassingly so, yet the students get a kick
out of it, since it is so unlike any PowerPoint session they've ever
seen. Class participation a la mode! Not a lot of new learning
takes place on the day I play the game, but the students have a
good time! I use Snickers bars for the winners, and a homework
review sheet for the losers!
There’s also a Double Jeopardy Version!
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David Fordham’s Jeopardy Games
http://cob.jmu.edu/fordham/AECM1.htm
Basic Accounting 1 --JeopardyGames\AccountingJeopardy.ppt
Basic Accounting 2 --JeopardyGames\DoubleJeopardy.ppt
AIS --JeopardyGames\JeopardySystems.ppt
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Study Stack
http://www.studystack.com/
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Find data to study or add your own data.
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Study and play with data online as flashcards,
hangman game, crossword puzzle, matching,
word search, or word scramble.
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Study anytime/anywhere by printing data or
exporting flashcards to your cell phone, PDA, or
iPod.
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Monopoly is Widely Used in Economics,
Accounting, and Elsewhere
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Monopoly from Parker Bros. has been used across the years by
various accounting, finance, economics, and sociology instructors
to interest students in accounting, finance, and social studies.
Years ago I lived next door to an economics instructor who
extended the game to "Corporate Monopoly." Dissertations have
even been written based up this board game, e.g., Models of Risk
and Strategies in Gameplay --http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~williamt/Thesis.pdf
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History of the Monopoly Game --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29
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Play Monopoly Online
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Examples of Online Monopoly --http://boardgames.about.com/od/monopolyonline/Playing_Monopoly_Online.htm
Local Link --- ..\Miscellaneous\MonopolyOnline.htm
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Links to Online Monopoly --- Click Here
Monopoly Live (real London properties) --http://www.monopolylive.com/
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New Versions of Monopoly
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Electronic Banking Version With Debit Cards --http://www.hasbro.com/games/kid-games/monopoly/
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Expanded Versions --http://www.hasbro.com/games/kid-games/monopoly/
Local Link --- ..\Miscellaneous\MonopolyVersions.htm
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USAopoly Themed Versions --- http://www.usaopoly.com/
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Monopoly is Widely Used in Economics,
Accounting, and Elsewhere
David Albrecht at Bowling Green State University took it to a new
level for basic accounting. Terms and conditions for students (Real
Money, 2003 Edition©, by W. David Albrecht, is a financial
accounting and investment simulation game for use in accounting
classes) are given at
http://www.profalbrecht.com/publish/realmoney2003/copyright/
Albrecht's book is summarized at
http://www.profalbrecht.com/publish/realmoney2000/
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Monopoly is Widely Used in Economics,
Accounting, and Elsewhere
Computerized versions of the board game --http://www.muurkrant.nl/monopoly/computer_programs.htm
Also see
http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/economics_blog_july2006.html
Linux versions --http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=25
Also see http://www.myfamilysoftware.com/ind.html
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Accounting Puzzles and Games
Accounting Crossword Puzzles --- http://www.accountingcrosswords.com/
Local Link --- ..\Miscellaneous\CrosswordAccounting.htm
Accountancy Forum --http://www.accountancy.com.pk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=91
Payroll Acct. Crossword Puzzles --http://www.accountingcoach.com/online-accounting-course/20Xpg01.html
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Accounting Puzzles and Games
Accounting Puzzles --http://www.puzzlespro.com/site/puzzlecat/accounting
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Richard Campbell’s Accounting Learning Games --Accounting Learning Games --http://faculty.rio.edu/campbell/aaa2007/games/games.htm
Flash Cards
Pick a Letter
Fill In The Blank
Matching
Crosswords
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Glossary
Accounting Puzzles and Games
Catch Me If You Can! --http://careerzone.orcpa.org/high_school.asp?Child=15
Other Accounting Fraud Games --http://www.startheregoplaces.com/games/?SSID=1A0DA63BB585468093F34774B11B2266
Make Your Own Games --http://gamesmaken.startpagina.nl/
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Mathematics Examples
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Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles -- http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml
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Bob Jensen's threads on mathematics and
statistics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics
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Wharton Learning Lab
http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/learning/
The products developed by the
Learning Lab engage students in realworld exercises that challenge them to
apply principles they've learned across
multiple disciplines.
Not Much Use for Accounting Classes
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How can you make your own video game, possibly an
educational game that you put online?
People who love to create their own blogs, podcasts, and movies
have a new outlet for self-expression: home-made video games.
Erica Naone, "Playing Their Own Way," MIT's Technology
Review, August 2, 2007 --http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19137/?a=f
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MyGame
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Scratch
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Reflexive Entertainment,
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Video Game Hype
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Make Your Own Video Games
People who love to create their own blogs, podcasts, and movies
have a new outlet for self-expression: home-made video games.
Erica Naone, "Playing Their Own Way," MIT's Technology
Review, August 2, 2007 --http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19137/?a=f
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Video Game Worries
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AMA Considers a New Addiction: Video Games --- While noting
the risks, it makes sense to also note the rewards," by Erica
Naone, MIT's Technology Review, June 25, 2007 --http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/17628/
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"Catching Cheaters with Their Own Computers: Anti-cheating
hardware could keep online game players honest," MIT's
Technology Review, July 3, 2007 --http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19005/?a=f .
Researchers at Intel are working on a system that could make it
much harder to cheat at online games. Unlike current softwarebased anti-cheating technology, Intel's Fair Online Gaming
System would be built into a player's computer, in a combination
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of hardware, firmware, and software.
Video Game Worries
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Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less
time reading and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework
than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said on
Monday.
Julie Steenhuysen, "Video games rob reading, homework time:
U.S. study," Reuters, July 2, 2007 --http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKN0235135620070702
Also see
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070702/tc_nm/videogames_dc
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Virtual Tours
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Bradley University provides a rather long listing of virtual plant
tours --- http://bradley.bradley.edu/~rf/plantour.htm
For example, the BMW plant tour in South Carolina features the
components of BMW models and discusses manufacturing
framing and assembly --- http://www.bmwusfactory.com/build/
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A Smarter Car: IBM wants to improve communication between
cars, roads, and drivers," by Clark Boyd, MIT's Technology
Review, July 6, 2007 --http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19017/?a=f
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Simulations
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"Simulations, Games, and Learning" By Diana Oblinger
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, May 2006
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3004.pdf
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Digital Game-Based Learning: It's Not Just the Digital Natives
Who Are Restless" By Richard Van Eck EDUCAUSE REVIEW,
vol. 41, no. 2, March/April 2006, pp. 16–30.
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0620.asp
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Mikes Bikes --- Click Here
Also see
http://sag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/35/4/525?ck=nck
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Future Lab in the U.K.
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Media Lab at MIT --- http://www.media.mit.edu/
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Future Lab (in the U.K.):
Developing innovative learning resources and practices that
support new approaches to education for the 21st century.
By bringing together the creative, technical and educational
communities, Futurelab is pioneering ways of using new
technologies to transform the learning experience.
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Accounting Second Life 3-D Model
Steven Hornik at the U. of Central Florida
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Since there has been some interest regarding Second Life on this
list from time to time, I wanted to share a demo of a model I
created in Second Life that I will be using with my class this
coming Fall. It's a 3-D interactive accounting model (A=L+E). If
you are in Second Life and want to play with it let me know. It's
currently on my Parcel in Sweetbay, but will be moving to
Teaching 4, part of the New Media Consortium's archipelago,
where University of Central Florida's accounting department has
just leased a plot!
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Link to blog post about the model:
http://www.mydebitcredit.com/2007/07/12/beginning-journey/
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Link
to YouTube video (no reading required):
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=4T4zTStVK6Y
Adding Video
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Camtasia is a great ALN asynchronous learning tool.
Videos can be made of lecture materials, Web materials,
Blackboard files, etc. They can be served up on CDs,
Web wervers, WebCT servers, Blackboard servers, etc.
Users can replay videos over and over and over.
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Latest versions of Camtasia allow for interactsions
between the student and the Camtasia video.
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Educational Videos
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Video Professor (Finance & Accountning) --http://www.videoprofessor.com/resourcelibrary/financeaccounting.html
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Understanding Accounting (Gregory M. Doublas )--http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Accounting-Gregory-M-Doublas/dp/0967769019
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Most textbook publishing firms have some really boring
accounting videos
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Artificial Intelligence Edutainment
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What are some computer science courses doing to slow the decline
in enrollments?
Could robots play Monopoly in basic accounting and economics
courses?"U.S. Colleges Retool Programming Classes," by Greg
Bluestein, PhysOrg, May 26, 2007 --http://physorg.com/news99378145.html
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The lesson plan was called "Artificial Unintelligence," but it was
written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious
computer science class.
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"Singing, dancing and drawing polygons may be nifty, but any
self-respecting evil roboticist needs a few more tricks in the
repertoire if they are going to take over the world," read the day's
instructions to a dozen or so Georgia Tech robotics students.
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References
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"Scavenger Hunt Enhances Students' Utilization of Blackboard"
By Dianne C. Jones JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING AND
TEACHING, vol. 2, no. 2, June 2006
http://jolt.merlot.org/Vol2_No2_Jones.htm
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Chad Kimball’s Chess Videos --- http://www.chessvictory.com
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