Author Topic: Advice Adventure! (A powerpoint game/lesson to practice advice) (Read 12619 times)

rednumberix · « **on:** May 30, 2011, 05:15:43 PM »

I use the J. Hans book and i just started the advice lesson. It seemed like the book assumed the kids knew the verbs they needed to complete the lesson. They just needed to slap "Should" on at the beginning. For a lesson that didn't seem like it could really take up a fourty minute class I spent some time and made this.

Its a choose your own adventure style game that uses option trees to advance. The graphics are REALLY good. I got a lot of stuff from this guy who makes trading card game art on DeviantArt.

The best part? I didn't really need to teach a thing. After the kids recognize seeing "Should" So many times they begin to pick it up automatically without much coaxing. One runthrough takes up 5-10 minutes but the game has multiple endings so you can start it all over again and go a completely different route. It also has pauses for dialogue, where you could ask the students to give their own opinions of what the protagonist should do.

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2013 EDIT:

Since making this game I have retired from teaching...but after seeing more and more comments...some of them kind of creeping me out...I've decided to edit the game. I still think the kids see more scantily clad fictional women on the sides of buses, but it makes me a little sad that some people can't use this resource because the content is objectionable. So I've fixed typos and changed the objectionable images to release ADVICE ADVENTURE 2013 EDIT.

The witch is now wearing a full length dress and Ann looks like an average Korean student. I doubt anyone could find the new images even remotely objectionable.

In addition to this I've also included an introductory PPT. This should explain problems and advice pretty easily. I've used it multiple times with great success.

I hope this helps. Keep fighting the good fight!

MattInKorea · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2011, 05:30:45 PM »

Looks cool! I really like the "choose your own adventure" format. How big of a group do you use this with?

MaestroCantus · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:42:21 AM »

This looks cool! Thanks!

It's hard to get my students motivated and talking . . . I hope I can maybe use this . . . with better classes (with more advanced students), I might try to get students to say WHY they want to do their option.

kyletr05 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2011, 11:14:32 AM »

This looks fun...I think I'll use it in my after school class. Thanks for posting :)

DMZ · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2011, 11:28:36 AM »

Fantastic game! My kids will love this. Thank you!

Cereal · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2011, 11:58:24 AM »

I too, just started this lesson. This PPP is fantastic. I wish I could make them as well. I am sure the kids will love it and get involved.

Thank you.

Pro-Vision · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2011, 12:01:52 PM »

I used this in my Making Wishes and Giving Advice class today. It went over great! Thanks for the hard work!

Cheers!

rednumberix · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2011, 01:20:19 PM »

Quote from: MattInKorea on May 30, 2011, 05:30:45 PM

Looks cool! I really like the "choose your own adventure" format. How big of a group do you use this with?

I used it for my advanced third grade class of about 30+. As you can assume the language is a little higher but I got even some of my beginner classes to use it with relative success, although it required a lot more prep work.

I'm glad this thing is helping so many teachers out! I wish the waygook message board had unlockable achievements for download numbers. 124!? Woot!

dmw · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2011, 01:44:56 PM »

Brilliant game - just used this with my gr2's after using the introductory ppt attached to give the basic terms etc (I found that some of them came up with some pretty funny answers to the question - "What should I do?" on most of the pictures !!!) I then followed this up with the game - They really enjoyed it. Co-teacher wants a copy !!!!! Thanks for posting

toska · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2011, 01:29:28 AM »

hey, this looks great - any chance you could upload a .ppt version of it...?

daveb · « **Reply #10 on:** June 08, 2011, 01:50:45 AM »

This looks sweet. Best PPT i've seen for a while. Cheers for uploading.

Karen26 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2011, 10:25:45 AM »

This ia a fantastic Powerpoint and my students loved it!

ouphs · « **Reply #12 on:** June 08, 2011, 10:52:29 AM »

This went over well with most of my 1st years. Giving students more control is definitely more engaging

Paul · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2011, 11:05:12 AM »

I'll reiterate those above and give my thanks for this one too. Very spiffy indeed.

Didn't use it in class itself, but rather with a few of my higher level primary school 5th graders in their break and they loved it! I tidied up a few grammar issues and highlighted the key words videogame style beforehand though, so I'll pop my edit of rednumberix's ppt up below.

expatrick · « **Reply #14 on:** June 08, 2011, 01:26:09 PM »

Brilliant Game. It shall be used immediately.

rednumberix · « **Reply #15 on:** June 09, 2011, 12:01:16 PM »

Just added a PPT for those of you who can't use the PPTX. Please let me know if it works alright so i can make changes and upload them as needed.

daveb · « **Reply #16 on:** June 09, 2011, 01:53:49 PM »

Great effort - thanks for the cleaned up spelling version, too!

Some of my students want to know what is the name of the comic that the images come from? Could you PM me the details please?

Also, I hope to see more like this! Thanks for uploading!

#basedcowboyshirt · « **Reply #17 on:** June 09, 2011, 03:05:12 PM »

This is great! Just a heads up on a typo on the first page - it says "ADIVCE ADVENTURE"

shaunabrowne87 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 09, 2011, 03:08:21 PM »

This is great! I played it with my students the other day for revision and one of them told me that he loved it so much he searched for it on the internet when he got home! Of course he couldnt find it and he was heart broken when he came to class the next day!!!!!

rednumberix · « **Reply #19 on:** June 10, 2011, 12:18:19 PM »

Quote from: shaunabrowne87 on June 09, 2011, 03:08:21 PM

This is great! I played it with my students the other day for revision and one of them told me that he loved it so much he searched for it on the internet when he got home! Of course he couldnt find it and he was heart broken when he came to class the next day!!!!!

WOW! I didn't think the kids would be this cought up into it!

Well to give your kid the skinny I credited the original artist in the game on slide 6 of the presentation as well as some additional notes on how to run the game and steer it in the right direction.

But I can post the information up here. The art is by a man I know only as Wen-M. He has a pretty high draffic Deviant art Page with ton of great stuff:
http://wen-m.deviantart.com/

Wen-M draws for a role playing and card game called Anima. The game looks great and if I could find a single person to play it with me I would probibly buy it.:
http://agameofthrones.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=45

The story itself was written by yours truly! :D so if the kids try looking for the same story they might be a little dissapointed. I have a pretty good imagination and when I see pictures it's pretty easy for me to string them together with random stories. I hope that helps!

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