It has been over 6 months since I’ve uploaded a proper blog post here. For some reason, I really struggled with writer’s block and imposter syndrome throughout the latter half of 2018, and found myself constantly brain dumping – the simple act of dumping all the contents of your mind on to a piece of…
Category: archaeogaming
Meier’s Civ in the Classroom – Failure or Success
For those who aren’t familiar with the gaming world, Sid Meier is the man behind the widely popular history-driven PC game; Civilisation in which the gamer’s goal is ‘to build an empire which will withstand the test of time‘.* Meier, as quoted in Uricchio’s ‘21: Simulation, History, and Computer Games‘ article, states that “we’re…
Power of Play: Archaeogaming Assignment Review Pt. 2
A few weeks into the term and it was time for the students to submit the assignment and for me to sit down with a cup of coffee/tea, a red pen and my research assistant, Teddie (who wasn’t very helpful as he preferred to enjoy the cool breeze) and grade the assignments. And as I…
Power of Play: Archaeogaming Assignment Review Pt.1
A serious concern of mine, with this assignment, was the students’ experience with gaming. As expected, the class was divided into the following categories: Students who were fluent in History but had little to no gaming experience. Students who had gaming experience but were less fluent in History. Students who weren’t well versed in History…
Down the rabbit hole I went – Archaeogaming
Truth be told, I’m not a gamer and still don’t consider myself one but I am most certainly intrigued by the educational benefits a game has to offer. The intrigue came about after teaching two History classes with a bunch of gamers, who constantly talked about ‘Civ’ – ‘Meiers’ Civilization’ for those who are not…
Behind the assignments
Upon discovering the benefits of ‘archaeogaming’ within the context of reception studies and pedagogy, I set out to create an assignment, for the new term, focused on archaeogaming. Archaeogaming – Reception Studies Assignment My personal and academic objectives are: to observe how effective ‘archaeogaming’ is in teaching history by encouraging the students to either game…
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