Late in 2008, Southwell School proudly won a Microsoft Competition, earning us a state-of-the-art offer of Microsoft hardware. We chose Xbox 360 as our educational device, and this led us into the Xbox Collaboration Project. As part of this project we involved Cambridge Middle School and St Andrews Middle School to aid in the educational investigation to see if this project would be suitable for the classroom. This exciting project will develop our Collaborating and Communicating skills in relationship to the Key Competencies and our Southwell School values.
For the project we are playing the co-op game 'Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise' which involves making a garden and attracting pinatas. On a deeper level, this involves team work to improve our garden and collaboration with the other gardens from other groups, classes and schools. We all have our own group roles; Player, Leader/Organizer, Watcher, Blogger and Researcher, each with their special roles to aid the group. We are learning all about blogging while having lots of fun on the Xboxes.
For the project we are playing the co-op game 'Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise' which involves making a garden and attracting pinatas. On a deeper level, this involves team work to improve our garden and collaboration with the other gardens from other groups, classes and schools. We all have our own group roles; Player, Leader/Organizer, Watcher, Blogger and Researcher, each with their special roles to aid the group. We are learning all about blogging while having lots of fun on the Xboxes.
Here is our link to the project using wikispaces http://moodle.southwell.school.nz/mod/resource/view.php?id=8603
Here is some student voice outlining why we are doing this cool project.
1 comment:
Great to see some gamers with the control and gunning for it. I am already seeing some stuff in the colabsouthwell1 and 2. It should help me when I go to play the game. I am looking forward to seeing some new pinatas and some nice tidy gardens lol. Mr Winter
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