CARBONDALE - Brian Murley's approach to teaching math to his students is a far cry from the abacus.
"This is Lord Nasher," Murley said, pointing to the computer screen where a medieval figure was positioned in a room with another man dressed in armor.
Students at Giant City School, where Murley teaches math to sixth- through eighth-graders, are obviously familiar with video games, but the one Murley was playing on Friday afternoon had one substantial difference: He created it himself.
Murley is a graduate student of Christian Sebastian Loh, assistant professor and coordinator of the instructional Design and Technology's Collaboratory for Interactive Learning Research at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Loh has been teaching a summer game-modification class that allows students to create their own version of popular computer game Neverwinter Nights.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Teachers create video games for classroom use
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