Resources

McGonigal, Jane. //Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World//. New York: Penguin Press, 2011
 * Books**

Barbour, M. K., Kinsella, J. & Rieber, L. P. (2007). [|PowerPoint games in a secondary laptop environment]. //Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education// (2328-2332). Norfolk, VA: AACE.
 * eArticles**

Parker, J. S. (2004). Evaluating the impact of project based learning by using student created PowerPoint games in the seventh grade language arts classroom. //Instructional Technololgy Monographs, 1//(1). Retrieved December 8, 2004 from [].

Prensky, Marc. "Engage Me or Enrage Me: What Today's Learners Demand." //Educause Review,// September/October, 2003, 183: 2276-78. []

Rieber, L. P. (n.d.). //Homemade Powerpoint games: A constructionist alternative to webquests//. Retrieved November 10, 2006 from []

McGonigal, Jane. //This Might Be Game: Ubiquitous Play and Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.// Dissertation for the Ph.D. in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkely. 2006. []
 * eBooks**

Moursund, David G. (2007). //Introduction to Using Games in Education: A Guide for Teachers and Parents//. Available free online: [].

Chore Wars, []
 * Games**

Homemade PowerPoint Games, []


 * 1) [|Funbrain]- One of the most popular educational gaming sites around. Not only does this site cover a variety of subjects, it also caters to K-8th graders, and has nice teacher resources as well.
 * 2) [|Game Classroom]- Excellent, safe, teacher-approved, state-standard-aligned games for grades K-6. Also, lots of teacher resources,including videos, lesson plans, worksheets, and more.
 * 3) [|Gameaquarium]- Great site for games for kids K-6 in all types of subjects. Videos, eBooks, and teacher resources can be found here as well.
 * 4) [|Braineos]- Nice site where games are based on flash cards. A registered user can include their own study lists and flash cards in the games.
 * 5) [|Tucoola]- Wonderful site for skill-building games for younger kids where parents can track their progress.
 * 6) [|Tutpup]- Cool site for math and spelling games where kids can compete with other kids online. Best of all, this site is COPPA compliant.
 * 7) [|BrainNook]- Innovative site that allows kids to play educational games for math and English in safe virtual worlds where they interact and compete with other kids. Teachers can sign up their classes via the teacher portal.
 * 8) [|Clever Island]- Offers fun educational games for kids 3-8 in a variety of subjects such as math, reading, spelling and more.
 * 9) [|What2Learn]- Excellent site for educational games where a teacher can track students progress through a paid account. Users can create custom-made games as well.
 * 10) [|Abcya]- Great site for elementary students that covers a wide variety of subjects. Also has educational apps for mobile devices.

Barbour, M. K., Kinsella, J. & Rieber, L. P. (2007, October). //PowerPoint games in K-12 e-learning environments//. Paper presentation at the annual World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Quebec City, QC. [Handouts: [|PPT] / [|PDF]] Clesson, K., Adams, M. & Barbour, M. K. (2007, October). //Game design as an educational pedagogy//. Paper presented at the annual National Association of Laboratory Schools Symposium, Johnson City, TN. [Handouts: [|PPT] / [|PDF]] Kinsella, J. & Barbour, M. K. (2007, October). //PowerPoint games in a secondary laptop environment//. Paper presented at the annual National Association of Laboratory Schools Symposium, Johnson City, TN. [Handouts: [|PPT] / [|PDF]] Barbour, M. & Kinsella, J. (2007, February). //PowerPoint games in the K-12 e-learning environment//. Presentation at the Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learining, http://www.ilonlineconf.org/ [Handouts: [|PPT] / [|PDF]] Barbour, M. (2007, February). //PowerPoint games as evaluative tools//. Presentation at the Illinois Virtual High School Winter Meeting, Normal, IL. [Handouts: [|PPT] / [|PDF]] Rieber, L. P. & Thomas, G. B. (2004, November). //Homemade PPT games as an alternative to WebQuests: How to do it//. Paper presented at the annual Georgia Educational Technology Conference, Macon, GA. [[|Full Presentation (HTML)] | Handouts: [|PPT] / [|PDF]]
 * Presentations**

Quest to Learn, a public charter school in New York City (6-12), [] - The first game-based school in the world. Video on Q2L, New York Times - []
 * Schools**