{"id":384,"date":"2012-12-17T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/?p=384"},"modified":"2013-01-31T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T08:34:43","slug":"goals-and-requirements-of-the-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/2012\/12\/17\/goals-and-requirements-of-the-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"F.Y.I.: Goals and requirements of the seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n

This seminar is follwing a project-based approach.
\nGoals are a theoretical approach to learning\/playing, an analysis of game examples and their mechanics, a connection of own interests and topics with a game based approach, and a reflected draft of a game concept or a prototype.<\/p>\n

With other words, this means translating an abstract topic into a medium of interactivity, challenge and fun. If the topic would be “learning how to collaboratively work on a challenge” or “learning how to get around in Germany (for a Fin)”, you could ‘translate’ this into a radio drama, a TV show, a novel \u2013 or a game.
\nA game is a medium with its own restrictions and liberties, its own strengths and weaknesses. By trying to ‘fit’ a topic into a new medium, one learns as well about medial possibilities as about the restraints of the topic itself: It is Marshall McLuhan’s assumption “The medium is the message” put in practice.<\/p>\n

Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n