Gaming and Virtual Worlds

Since i don’t have a computer at home I couldn’t do the first question.  The only things I know about virtual worlds is what have seen and heard discussed on The Agenda with Steve Paikin.  The first time was with Mac students discussing their virtaul world setup.  Being anyone on campus can join and create an identity.  They find it relaxing and some enjoy role playing.  Others say that people become obsess and forget to work on their studies and stop socializing with the students in real life.  The other time it was a woman who makes up educational virtual worlds that students in schools can interact with anyone all over the world.  She created the greening of the planet and anyone can go into this virtual world and help come with ideas for making our planet green.  To me this is wonderful because we need to do this and it means the students can get information they may not beable to find in a book on in the internet.  They are meeting with people in other parts of the world and learning about their problems.  The only thing I worry about in the virtual world is that if people are not careful they may end up in trouble.  Just like chat rooms there could be a dark side to virtual rooms.

I did the second question on gaming because I could do some of the free 0nline ones at work.  I tried card games, jigsaw, chictionary, mahjong match and a series of unfortunate events.  The card games I perfer actual cards because I didn’t feel comfortable looking at the screen and moving the mouse hurt my wrists.  The other games where more interesting because there was skill in eye/hand co-ordination.  They had time limits and they made you really think. Games in a library setting well it amuses them and at the same time can teach them new words, counting and matching different symbols.  They will learn to interact with the computer with more ease and therefore when they need to look up information on projects they will beable to do so on their own.

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