Bill Wake Steve Metsker Framegames! Fire up students without knocking yourself out!

Bill WakeSteve

Metsker

FramegameFramegames!s!

Fire up students without

knocking yourself out!

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AgendaAgendaWhat’s a Framegame?Frame 1

Game 1Game 2

Frame 2 Game 1Game 2

Wrap it to go

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What’s a What’s a Framegame?Framegame?Student interaction rocks

but takes prep time

A framegame is a reusable shell that holds the lesson-of-the-day

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Frame 1 – Best Frame 1 – Best Fit!Fit!Before class

Choose topicChoose your adjectivesGather some index cards

In classBreak into groups of 5Each group creates 20 noun cards

PlayDeal out the noun cardsJudge flips over an adjective cardPlayers play their best noun card

Last card played doesn’t count!

Judge chooses the best fit and awards the adjective card to that player.Repeat

Reconvene

Based on"Apples to Apples"

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Best Fit! – Game Best Fit! – Game 11Before class

Topic: Important Computer ScientistsAdjectives

Influential

UnderappreciatedConfusing

Innovative

Ahead of their time

Gather some index cards

In classBreak into groups of 5Each group creates 20 noun cards

PlayDeal out the noun cardsJudge flips over an adjective cardPlayers play their best noun card

Last card played doesn’t count!

Judge chooses the best fit and awards the adjective card to that player.Repeat

Reconvene

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Before classTopic: AlgorithmsAdjectives

O(n2) Useful Complicated O(n log n)Only for people who write Doom

Gather some index cards

Best Fit! – Game Best Fit! – Game 22In class

Break into groups of 5Each group creates 20 noun cards

PlayDeal out the noun cardsJudge flips over an adjective cardPlayers play their best noun card

Last card played doesn’t count!

Judge chooses the best fit and awards the adjective card to that player.Repeat

Reconvene

Frame 2 – Frame 2 – Envelopes!Envelopes!Before class

Choose topicGather some envelopes and index cardsMark up envelopes with problems

In classBreak into groups of 5Organize federations of 3 groups eachDistribute a set of 3 envelopes to each federation

PlayRound 1 & 2 — Play

look at envelopewrite analysis on a cardstuff & pass

Round 3 — Judgeselect the best answertake turns announcing the best answer to the federation

Invented byThiagi

(thiagi.com)

Envelopes! — Envelopes! — Game 1Game 1Before class

Topic: Operating Systems!

Problems:What are operating systems for?Why do operating systems crash?When is Linux a better choice than Windows?

Gather some index cards

In classBreak into groups of 5Organize federations of 3 groups eachDistribute a set of 3 envelopes to each federation

PlayRound 1 & 2 — Play

look at envelopewrite analysis on a cardstuff & pass

Round 3 — Judgeselect the best answertake turns announcing the best answer to the federation

Envelopes! — Envelopes! — Game 2Game 2Before class

Topic: Software Engineering!

Problems:Developers don’t bother reading my requirements doc!Testers constantly find problems that the customer doesn’t care about!We’ve got 4 months of development work and only 3 months to do it!

Gather some index cards

In classBreak into groups of 5Organize federations of 3 groups eachDistribute a set of 3 envelopes to each federation

PlayRound 1 & 2 — Play

look at envelopewrite analysis on a cardstuff & pass

Round 3 — Judgeselect the best answertake turns announcing the best answer to the federation

Whew!Whew!

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What’s next?What’s next?How will you leverage framegames?

Thanks!Thanks!William.Wake@ac

m.orgSteve.Metsker@ac

m.org