Stephen’s Untold Stories

“Why are you here, soldier?

“I’m here because I’m bored!”

“Don’t you ever forget that.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

I must admit that I was never really into Tetris as much as many people I know. I do enjoy it, but I’d rather play Minesweeper most of the time.

Interesting study. I expect we’ll see more of this type of research.

Virginia reportedly has become the first state to implement a pilot program using Tabula Digita’s DimensionM video games to help boost student test scores in mathematics and motivate students to learn.

DimensionM is an immersive video-game world that engages students in learning pre-algebra and algebra objectives through a series of missions. Tammy McGraw, director of educational technology for the Virginia Department of Education, read about DimensionM and its use in New York City public schools.   After seeing some empirical research on the games’ efficacy as a teaching tool, she decided she wanted to find out more.

According to a study conducted in 2008 by scholars at the University of Central Florida, DimensionM’s immersive educational video games can improve students’ understanding and raise scores significantly on district-wide math benchmark exams.

Read the rest here.

Try and beat your friends!

Why Fight?
What can fighting really prove? Using a complicated algorithm, AIM® Fight crawls through
the depths of the Internet to answer the all-important question that plagues us all: How
popular am I right this second?
            

How do I win?
Your score is the sum of the current number of people online who have you listed as
a buddy, out to three degrees. This means the score is constantly changing, and the
winner of the battle will constantly change with it.

AIM Fight

I used to be able to solve these pretty quickly.

Link to Site

This site has some very good ones.

Miniclip.com

This one is pretty fun. I got good at it rather quickly.

Wastebasketball

"Sony has unveiled the PlayStation
3, highlighting the "supercomputer-like power" it hopes will steer the
console to victory in the massively competitive gaming market.

Sony says its next generation of
games machine is 35 times faster than its predecessor and will provide
more realistic graphics for more compulsive gameplay."

Here is the complete article.

A pretty cool online version of skeet.

Click the image to play.

"In a recent US study at the Harvard Medical School’s department of
psychiatry, 27 Tetris players spent seven hours a day, for three days,
playing the game. Many had ‘Tetris dreams’."

This site has it all!

For some reason, some guy invented a Twister game you play with your fingers on your computer monitor.

If you really want to try it, here is the link.

If you have a few minutes, then you might want to try this quiz.

Where’s the Beef??

Have you ever played pool online? This game is somewhat addicting, so be careful!

Click the image to play.

A colleague referred me to another great jigsaw site. They will even E-Mail you a puzzle a day!

JigZone

Thanks, Catherine!

Your kids (or maybe you) will love this!

Online jigsaw puzzles!

Back to the 1980s with this one.

Rubik’s Cube!

You must try this!

Penguin Baseball