Comments on: Nintendo Wii Golf Subtraction http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/10/14/nintendo-wii-golf-subtraction/ Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paulish http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/10/14/nintendo-wii-golf-subtraction/comment-page-1/#comment-3746 Paulish Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:48:16 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=413#comment-3746 I think this is a tremendous idea. Not only does it engage the students due to it being a video game but learning subtraction might be the last thing they're thinking about during this lesson so it's not like they'd daydream during many, standard lessons. All they want to do is get up there and hit the ball! Fantastic idea. I look forward to trying something like this in my own classroom one day. I think this is a tremendous idea. Not only does it engage the students due to it being a video game but learning subtraction might be the last thing they’re thinking about during this lesson so it’s not like they’d daydream during many, standard lessons. All they want to do is get up there and hit the ball!

Fantastic idea. I look forward to trying something like this in my own classroom one day.

]]> By: J.D. Williams http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2009/10/14/nintendo-wii-golf-subtraction/comment-page-1/#comment-3738 J.D. Williams Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:44:12 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/?p=413#comment-3738 I used the Beatles Rock Band game for the Wii as our "Fun Friday" activity a couple of weeks ago. I had been thinking about using it or Guitar Hero for reading, but wasn't sure how to work it all out. It worked great. My lowest English Language Learners were singing like crazy, reading the words faster and more fluently than they do with any of the reading I've seen them do this year. It may have helped that we listen to the songs all the time and I had them read print outs of the lyrics before we started. Also, I made students sing before they could play the guitar. That got a lot of groans, but once they started singing, some of them wanted to just sing instead of play the guitar. I used the Beatles Rock Band game for the Wii as our “Fun Friday” activity a couple of weeks ago. I had been thinking about using it or Guitar Hero for reading, but wasn’t sure how to work it all out.

It worked great. My lowest English Language Learners were singing like crazy, reading the words faster and more fluently than they do with any of the reading I’ve seen them do this year. It may have helped that we listen to the songs all the time and I had them read print outs of the lyrics before we started.

Also, I made students sing before they could play the guitar. That got a lot of groans, but once they started singing, some of them wanted to just sing instead of play the guitar.

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