Great knowledge building software

It has been far too long since we posted! The whole team have been very busy with the launch of the uBoard interactive whiteboard system.

Todays post focuses on a website that we have mentioned before, but it's truly good enough to give another push. The site we are talking about is Purpose Games. The basic idea is that people create and play knowledge based games. What makes it so useful is that everytime you play a particular game you are competing with all the other people who have played that game as well - very motivating for students of all ages!

The games have been created by people who visit the site. The process is very simple and really all you need to know to create a game of your own is the specific knowledge that your game will require. The current most played games are both Geography focused - one challenges you to correctly mark the American States on a map and the other does the same with the countries in Europe - both games have been played over 1 million times!

The site is very helpfully organised into categories, or you can search for a topic that interests you or your class. A quick search for "New Zealand" found 53 games on this country alone.

The way we like to use it though is to get the students to write their own game using some knowledge that their teacher needs them to remember. They can, and will, become very motivated to set quick times and will imprint the facts without much effort.