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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