Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

There were no major problems this week. Next week we will finalize the survey and focus group questions and begin planning for Spring 2010 and winding down the project thereafter.

Students have had several training sessions for the game, and some teams were already finished by last week. The game play itself was reasonably clear, but students struggled with items such as using the PrintScreen button and working with DosBox. Jason Kaveney revised instructions for some items based on what was learned in the training session.

The next step is to create the student survey in ANGEL.

Jason Kaveney will conduct a training session on HealthSim tomorrow in 108 Waring Commons. Both the installation files and the documentation have been loaded into Mark's HPA course in ANGEL.

Elizabeth and Mark will continue to work on developing an assessment survey as well as a focus group section.

As of October 30, the following has happened

• Instructor Mark Sciegaj is describing the theory of the different policy choices beginning October 26.
• Mark has also created a report template based on screen captures of different reports in the game.
• Jason Kaveney is testing download and running of SimHealth game from a Flash drive. The Flash drive will allow students to store data on any computer (from lab to personal computer).
• Elizabeth Pyatt is reviewing documentation and instructional process.
• Elizabeth will create survey instruments and possibly a focus group opportunity.

Demo: Scheduled for Fri Nov 6, 10 AM in Waring lab