{"id":11254,"date":"2019-11-18T22:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2019-11-18T22:38:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:38:38","slug":"blogvember-18-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/blogvember-18-game\/","title":{"rendered":"#blogvember 18 Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have problems with games, especially the computer kind. I&#8217;ve never really played any. I messed about with some sort of space invaders game on my first Mac, a Performa 475, but got bored. I played Myst for about 20 minutes because it was free with the Mac. I had more fun trying to ResEdit it to poke through its HyperCard roots than I ever did playing.<br \/>\nMy problem comes from my work as a primary teacher. I&#8217;ve dipped my classes toes into making games with Scratch, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2018\/12\/21\/christmas-challenge-1-minetest\/\">used a Minecraft alternative, Minetest<\/a> and various other games.<br \/>\nMy difficulty is that I don&#8217;t really know enough about games. In Minecraft or minetest I wander around clumsily, in encouraging my class to improve their games I don&#8217;t know what a good game looks like. I am not going to invest the time in learning to play so I need to try and find ways to encourage the class from the sidelines. I also need to give up a fair bit of control of the learning and see if pupil leaders emerge.<br \/>\nWe have just organised licences for Minecraft Education Edition. I hope to be able to leverage the enthusiasm for playing the game and the curricular resources without having to improve my own skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have problems with games, especially the computer kind. I&#8217;ve never really played any. I messed about with some sort of space invaders game on my first Mac, a Performa 475, but got bored. I played Myst for about 20 minutes because it was free with the Mac. I had more fun trying to ResEdit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"kind-note","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-2Vw","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11255,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions\/11255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11254"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=11254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}