Jorge Brandão | Vítor Carvalho

“GAME QUIZ” - Implementing a serious game platform based in quiz games for the teaching of Information and Technology

2014

OUTLINEIntroducing the evolutionTEACHING STRATEGIES

Resume aboutSERIOUS GAMES

An overview ofQUIZ GAMES & QUIZ TOOLS

THE QUIZ GAME “QUEM QUER SER INFORMÁTICO”

- Game Implementation- Game Structure- Game Design

CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK

VIDEO DEMONSTRATION

TEACHING STRATEGIES

• “Teachers are increasingly turning to Information and Communications Technology resources as aids in classroom teaching.” (Ribeiro, M. et al 2009)

TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM

MODERN CLASSROOM

• The computer have brought a significant variety of teaching strategies to be implemented in the classroom, such as the use of online materials in support of school courses.

Classroom is no more …a traditional classroom

Traditional Classroom VS Modern Classroom

SOURCE IMAGE: http://watchdog.org/112284/

SOURCE IMAGE: http://nisce.org/architecture-of-a-traditional-classroom-an-opportunity-for-change/

• The classrooms are different, the students are no more sited on the "correct" position reading and writing on a paper book.

SERIOUS GAMES“Games that educate and train”

“Serious games can bring a large number of benefits to the teaching-learning process, in particular : (Savi, 2008)”

MOTIVATOREFFECT

FACILITATOROF LEARNING

COGNITIVESKILLS

PROMOTE THESOCIALIZATION

“Serious games are those that, in addition to the pleasure provided to their players, also serve to inform,

train and educate them.”(Brandão, J., Ferreira, T., & Carvalho, V. 2011)

Quiz games have been emerging in our time, through TV shows such as “Who Wants to be Millionaire?”, or even as game consoles, like BUZZ!™ developed by Sony which in its latest version has a database of 5,000 questions based on the English National Program.

QUIZ GAMES

Quiz games allows students to analyze their results and to note their errors in real time.

Why Quiz Games?

QUIZ CENTERhttps://www.thequizcenter.com/

A free tool mainly for creating and administering online quizzes

QUIZ CREATION (TOOLS)There are some tools for quiz design such as:

WONDERSHARE QUIZCREATOR http://www.wondershare.com/Allows combining test quiz with multimedia and delivers a math equation editor

TANIDA QUIZ BUILDERhttp://www.quiz-builder.com/

Creates Flash based educational quizzes, which can be used as online or desktop applications

Adapted from the Portuguese National Program subject of ICT, for 9th grade students.

Students can play not only in the classroom but also at their

homes or anywhere.

The elements design was supposed to be peculiar

and funny for the player to be attracted by them.

Will promote new teaching strategies allowing the

students to have fun while learning.

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

Multiple choice questionsreleased by the game,in the shape of text,pictures or videos.

EDUCATIVE CONTENTS AVAILABLE ONLINE

CREATIVE QUESTIONS FUNNY ELEMENTS NEW STRATEGIES

• Have randomly 20 questions from all the mini games

• It doesn´t have a time pressure to finish the game

GAME STRUCTURE

All questions are timed (10 seconds to answer)If the student gets into top 10 best scores, it will be recorded and registered in the best players’ grid

• The fundamentals of computing

3 Mini Games:

• Basic structure of the computer

• Microsoft Office®

1st PART OF THE GAME

2nd PART OF THE GAMEDiagnostic Test

This game is divided in 2 parts

The league table appears as the final scenario, presenting itself as honor roll, and will allow players to record their results and obtaining a position through it.

GAME DESIGN

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The characters are an important element that gives “life” to the game, and support or face the player. Both two characters were based on the TV contest show.

SCENARIOS

CHARACTERS

TABLES CLASSIFYING

Principal elements of the game

This game gives the illusion of the student being in an environment of a TV game show by simulating the interviewer.

• Wordpress® to develop and construct the “home” of the game.

• Flash CS6® to develop the games associated with a scripting language object-oriented.

GAME IMPLEMENTATION

www.quizinformatica.euThe quiz game is available on an online server, and can be accessed by the url:

To develop this game, the following technologies were used:

• Create new quizzes through new areas of the Portuguese National Educational Program.

• Allow students to share their scores and launch challenges to other friends in the social networks.

• Create a back office, available to teachers of all subjects, where they can create their own questions and import them to the game quiz.

We believe that this game will increase student’s interest in ICT, allowing them to reinforce the learning of the contents discussed in the classroom, through an environment of challenge and trial in reaching new scores.

CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK

FUTURE WORK

DEMO VIDEO

http://youtu.be/B1IyHLZXc8I

JORGE BRANDAOj.almeidabrandao@gmail.com

VITOR CARVALHOvitorhugocarvalho@gmail.com