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World of Warcraft in School

by Susan Myers on March 6, 2010

Lucas Gillispie, an instructional tech coordinator for Pender County Schools in NC, uses WOW (common abbreviation for World of Warcraft) with middle school students.  I wasn’t able to attend his session at NCTIES, but he tweeted his wiki explaining how to use WOW with students.  View the wiki here.

World of Warcraft, by the way, is an online multiplayer role playing game.  The user creates a player that can be one of multiple races (orc, troll, human, dwarf, etc) and any type of character (fighter, magic user, healer, etc).  The user enters into a “world” with other people and can talk to them and solve quests with them.  See the Wikipedia article for more details.

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About Susan Myers

I taught third grade for four years and have worked in subscription, academic research, and public school libraries. I currently serve as the head librarian at Spartanburg High School. I dabble in this and that and have learned html coding (both self-teaching and taking classes), am learning Spanish in the car (with Pimsleur), and am constantly trying out Web2.0 pages to see if they have educational merit. In my spare time, I chase around two boys and, in the summer, help my husband with our seven acre "estate".

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