Jordan+-+Video+Games+and+Infographics



Keep track of your notes. You will hand in these notes. You will also use these notes to write your Annotated Bibliography. Look here [] At this site is the tool you will use to create your Infographic As a group, share your information, discuss what you want your Infographic to look like, and the information you want to present.
 * Your group will be creating an Infographic about one aspect of video games. Below are some possible topics. **
 * 1) History of the video game
 * 2) Why do we play games?
 * 3) Who plays video games?
 * 4) What kinds of games are there? Categorizing games (computer, hand held, console, arcade, educational, FPS, MMO, RPG, puzzle, adventure, anything else?)
 * 5) How do controllers work and moving through the game
 * 6) How video games work
 * 7) Is video game play good? (Healthy? Brain development?)
 * 8) Is video game play bad? (Unhealthy, Brain development?)
 * 9) Effects of violence in video games
 * 10) Video games vs. non-video games (card games, board games)
 * 11) Conventions or competitions?
 * 12) Any other topic that you can think of. Just come share it with me.
 * First: Take some time to research your topic. **
 * Next: Look at lots of types of infographics and familiarize yourself with the ways in which data and information can be visualized. **
 * TURNING IT IN: When your Infographic is complete. Print it, write your names on it, and put it in the basket. **
 * AND Share it with me: **
 * 1) Open [|Google docs]
 * 2) Open a new presentation
 * 3) Login to your Infographic.
 * 4) Under your Infographic choose share
 * 5) Copy the web link.
 * 6) Go back to your Google docs presentation
 * 7) Insert a link
 * 8) In the text line, put the name of each of you in the group
 * 9) In the Link line, paste the link from the Infographic
 * 10) Paste this link in to the Google presentation
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 * [|Links to database trial]. Try //Oppposing Viewpoints in Context// and //Student resources in Context//. **
 * [|Link to feedback form.] Ms.** **Jordan will give extra credit if fill out the feedback form __and__ you call her over before you submit your form.**

"[|8 Ways Video Games are Bad For Your Kids" by Laura St. John, Huffington Post]
 * Try these resource links; **

"[|Do Video Games Make Kids Violent" by Richard Besser,ABC News]

"[|Why Video Games May Be Good For You" by Nic Fleming, BBC – Future Story]

"[|Video Games Can Actually be Good for Kids" by Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz]

"[|What Science Knows About Video Games and Violence", PBS Nova]

[|Ted Talks – 20 minute Videos recorded at Ted Conferences,Jane McGonigal,"Gaming Can Make a Better World]"

[|Daphne Bavelier, Your Brain on Video Games]

[|Will Wright, Spore: Birth of a Game]

[|David Perry: Are Games Better Than Life]?

[|History of Games, PBS - Kids]

[|History of Games and Learning]

[|Time, History of Game Consoles]