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Sun 29/09/02 at 14:43
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School- a place of learning, a place to meet new friends and to socialise. School is also a place of torture, no, there are no stretch racks involved, but it does prevent you from enjoying your favourite past time. Whether it's computer games, fishing, climbing or whatever, school gets in the way. Lessons are boring, and have a tendency to make me nod off. When in school, I think about computer games. How to complete a level, what haven't I tried and new techniques all pop into my mind as a reluctantly study Radioactivity in Physics. But what if there was a way, say, to integrate Computer games and lessons, a way that was fun yet educational. Maybe it would be something like this:

English: Now, English can be very boring, especially when we are instructed to read Shakespeare. Instead of reading the same chapter over and over again, highlighting 'key' points, you would play the role of Shakespeare: Book Hunter. Based on the popular Turok series, dinosaurs are replaced by books, and those lush outdoor levels? Yep, replaced by a library. As you work your way through the library, books will attack you from all angles. Luckily, the English department got a grant from the Government and bought lots of supplies. Armed with a Quiver, an ink well and your knowledge of Poetry, you must attack the books. When they finally drop to the ground, an FMV sequence will start, and the book will tell you its knowledge on Shakespearean poetry. Without knowing it, you are actually learning poetry, and you will be able to create your own version of Romeo and Juliet in no time!

Mathematics: There's no doubt about it, Maths is tedious, so why not make an adventure out of it? You play the role of Pythagoras, as you embark on an epic quest to find the lost city of right-angle triangles and algebraic functions. Team up with you buddy, Copernicus, and use your Philosophy and mathematics powers to fight evil decimal points and square roots as you try to save the world from a Quadratic equation invasion. (Try saying that when you're drunk :D) As you progress through the game, the equations get bigger, and before you know it, you will be fighting against the likes of Y= x² + 3x- 7 and ƒ(x) = x² (3x-7) + 2. Before each boss encounter, you will have a test, score a grade C or above and you get to fight the boss, but fail the test, and you will have to play that level, or year, again. Hopefully, by the end of the game, your test average will be that of an A, but score an average of an A*, and you get to play the secret level. This consists of trigonometry, whereby you will have to solve the angle to get home. Fascinating!

Science: Physics has to be the main contender in the "Put me to sleep" award. Try staying awake as your teacher rambles on about Ionization and using equations like S= D/T. Why not play a Scientific Mario games? " Is there even such a thing?" Oh yes, it's called 'Super Mario function of the line'. Based upon Super Mario Sunshine, 'Super Mario Function of the line' will see you jumping on test tube enemies and trying to work out the function of the line before the evil Hydrogen Molecule Mario sends off Alpha radiation into the town. Mario has to clear the radiation up before the town's people mutate. Bowser has come back this time, but not to steal Peach, he's come to attack everyone with Gamma rays and Hydrochloric acid. Peach, who decided to stop baking cakes for Mario, has actually done something useful for once and has somehow managed to 'Bake' Mario a calculator, so that he can work out the Functions of the line and clear up the radiation. This will grant you valuable information on Radioactivity and Line Functions, whilst jumping from graph to graph.

Then you wake up in the middle of a physics lesson and think, "Why can't that be true?"

"Fred, since you like thinking aloud, why don't you tell me, what is the bond called in which the atoms share electrons?"

"ARGH!"

Thanks for reading.

MiCRoCHiþS
Sun 29/09/02 at 16:56
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"sdomehtongng"
Posts: 23,695
MiCRoCHiþS wrote:
> Thanks Calum. :D

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No problem Howey. ;-)
Sun 29/09/02 at 15:16
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Posts: 10,437
Lol! Nice one Chips.

Another masterpiece and GAD contender! :-)
Sun 29/09/02 at 14:56
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"Jog on, sunshine"
Posts: 8,979
Thanks Calum. :D
Sun 29/09/02 at 14:54
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"sdomehtongng"
Posts: 23,695
School. That word makes me sad. But when it's associatedwith gaming it can't be that bad, can it? :-D

Good stuff MC Chippy!
Sun 29/09/02 at 14:43
Regular
"Jog on, sunshine"
Posts: 8,979
School- a place of learning, a place to meet new friends and to socialise. School is also a place of torture, no, there are no stretch racks involved, but it does prevent you from enjoying your favourite past time. Whether it's computer games, fishing, climbing or whatever, school gets in the way. Lessons are boring, and have a tendency to make me nod off. When in school, I think about computer games. How to complete a level, what haven't I tried and new techniques all pop into my mind as a reluctantly study Radioactivity in Physics. But what if there was a way, say, to integrate Computer games and lessons, a way that was fun yet educational. Maybe it would be something like this:

English: Now, English can be very boring, especially when we are instructed to read Shakespeare. Instead of reading the same chapter over and over again, highlighting 'key' points, you would play the role of Shakespeare: Book Hunter. Based on the popular Turok series, dinosaurs are replaced by books, and those lush outdoor levels? Yep, replaced by a library. As you work your way through the library, books will attack you from all angles. Luckily, the English department got a grant from the Government and bought lots of supplies. Armed with a Quiver, an ink well and your knowledge of Poetry, you must attack the books. When they finally drop to the ground, an FMV sequence will start, and the book will tell you its knowledge on Shakespearean poetry. Without knowing it, you are actually learning poetry, and you will be able to create your own version of Romeo and Juliet in no time!

Mathematics: There's no doubt about it, Maths is tedious, so why not make an adventure out of it? You play the role of Pythagoras, as you embark on an epic quest to find the lost city of right-angle triangles and algebraic functions. Team up with you buddy, Copernicus, and use your Philosophy and mathematics powers to fight evil decimal points and square roots as you try to save the world from a Quadratic equation invasion. (Try saying that when you're drunk :D) As you progress through the game, the equations get bigger, and before you know it, you will be fighting against the likes of Y= x² + 3x- 7 and ƒ(x) = x² (3x-7) + 2. Before each boss encounter, you will have a test, score a grade C or above and you get to fight the boss, but fail the test, and you will have to play that level, or year, again. Hopefully, by the end of the game, your test average will be that of an A, but score an average of an A*, and you get to play the secret level. This consists of trigonometry, whereby you will have to solve the angle to get home. Fascinating!

Science: Physics has to be the main contender in the "Put me to sleep" award. Try staying awake as your teacher rambles on about Ionization and using equations like S= D/T. Why not play a Scientific Mario games? " Is there even such a thing?" Oh yes, it's called 'Super Mario function of the line'. Based upon Super Mario Sunshine, 'Super Mario Function of the line' will see you jumping on test tube enemies and trying to work out the function of the line before the evil Hydrogen Molecule Mario sends off Alpha radiation into the town. Mario has to clear the radiation up before the town's people mutate. Bowser has come back this time, but not to steal Peach, he's come to attack everyone with Gamma rays and Hydrochloric acid. Peach, who decided to stop baking cakes for Mario, has actually done something useful for once and has somehow managed to 'Bake' Mario a calculator, so that he can work out the Functions of the line and clear up the radiation. This will grant you valuable information on Radioactivity and Line Functions, whilst jumping from graph to graph.

Then you wake up in the middle of a physics lesson and think, "Why can't that be true?"

"Fred, since you like thinking aloud, why don't you tell me, what is the bond called in which the atoms share electrons?"

"ARGH!"

Thanks for reading.

MiCRoCHiþS

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