{"id":108,"date":"2005-03-28T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=108"},"modified":"2005-03-28T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T00:16:12","slug":"myst-as-a-teaching-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Myst As A Teaching Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting use of a computer game in the classroom:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><font face=Arial>Rylands incorporates <em><strong>Myst<\/strong><\/em> by projecting the games onto an interactive whiteboard and then sitting amongst his pupils to watch and discuss the content in a shared context. He focuses on developing their creative writing skills using the games to enhance their descriptive language, and to improve their general speaking and listening skills [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justadventure.com\/articles\/AdventuresInEducation.shtm\">article link<\/a>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting use of a computer game in the classroom: Rylands incorporates Myst by projecting the games onto an interactive whiteboard and then sitting amongst his pupils to watch and discuss the content in a shared context. He focuses on developing their creative writing skills using the games to enhance their descriptive language, and to improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}