December 02, 2006
OU Online Games and Interactives
In a bid to attract new students, the OU appears to be making use of online games to try and grab the attention of the 'younger' student market: Kitchen Konundrum game.
Although I'm heavily involved in outreach related activities, I only discovered this through an OU Press Release celebrating a national "Best Online Game" award this game recently won from the British Interactive Media Association.
Just in passing, here are some more games and interactives on OU websites you may not be aware of:
- RoboDoodle: online doodling package; developed for The Big Draw, an annual Campaign for Drawing event. RoboDoodle also feeds random images through to the RoboFesta-UK website;
OU Robotics Outreach Group games:
- Sliding 8 puzzle
- RoboFesta-UK jigsaw
- Towers of Hanoi
- Robot related word search
- Robotics Mini-course with interactive quiz
- Online logo
KMi Games:
- Memory game - Bletchley Park
- Subhunt - Bletchley Park
- Children's Code Machine - Bletchley Park
- Dangers on the Building Site - Safety Centre
- Dangers in the Kitchen - Safety Centre
- Bright at Night - Safety Centre
- Fire Safety Challenge - Safety Centre
- Safety Quiz - Safety Centre
- The Recovery Position - Safety Centre
Open2.net
- Impact Planet Earth: Quiz: Try our interactive quiz.
- Magnetic Mayhem: Quiz: Test your knowledge on magnetic mayhem with our quiz.
- Your diet costsAn interactive guide to the impact of your diet
- Your trip at what cost?: Compare journeys and their environmental effects
- Transport: An interactive page to show the most economical and environmentally friendly forms of travel, part of the BBC/OU's programme website for 'Choices'
- Postcards From The Future: Our interactive feature will reveal how your actions today shape the seaside of tomorrow
- Digital Microscope:
- How We Digest: An interactive exploration of how the digestive system works.
- Food Timeline: An interactive guide to the history of food.
- Explore: Pasture To Plate - just the facts: Basic HTML version of the information included in the Pasture to Plate interactive
- Interactive timelineInteractive timeline of Leonardo's life, part of the OU/BBC's programme website for 'Leonardo'
- The Prisoner's Dilemma: A page explaining and linking to an interactive demonstration of the 'Prisoner's Dilemma'. Part of the OU/BBC's programme website for the Reith Lectures 2002: The Philosophy of Trust.
- What's your learning style?: Everyone has a distinct learning style. Discover yours.
- Explore Mars: Explore the red planet with our clickable guide
- Mission to Brighton: Launcher for the Mission To Brighton interactive.
- Universe Timeline: A timeline of the development of the Universe
- Solar System Facts: Explore the vital statsitics of our corner of the Universe
- You Are Here: A guide to our position in space
- Mapping slave history: An interactive map locating the towns and places associated with the slave history in northern england in the 18th century.
- They're everywhere: Our interactive looks back at the rapid growth of computers in everyday life.
- Measure the AU: Explore the Transit of Venus with our interactive - including a calculator to help convert your measurements into the AU
Check out the Open2.net site for more....
If there are any you think I'm missing (I'm sure there are...), please post a comment with a link...
PS if you're interested in learning how to create your own computer games, why not check out the Digital Worlds uncourse blog, where I'm blogging a 'sort of' course on interactive media and computer game design....
Posted by ajh59 at December 2, 2006 01:04 PM