Week 10: Gaming and Virtual Environments

Activity #1   We were not able to try any of the games until Wednesday as our computer would not let us.  It has since been updated.  I tried two games Bejeweled and Zuma from Pop Cap Games.  I liked Zuma better because it was new to me and a little different than  anything I have played.  I have also played Hearts, Sudoku and Spider Solitaire.  I prefer logic games to MUSH or social environment type games.

Activity #2   I think gaming and virtual worlds are of interest to libraries because they can be used as a teaching tool.  They go beyound the printed word and they allow students to recreate, for example, a particular time in history.  They can build towns, fight battles, grow crops  or recreate any event in history they want to.