[IAEP] Health nuts

[David Farning]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Beth Santos <beth at waveplace.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Looking for someone who can get me in touch with people who might be
> interested in developing health-focused Etoys education software- nutrition,
> sanitation, HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria prevention, anatomy, etc. This is an
> initiative I want to grow in countries in Africa and could use some content
> help. Whether it's international health professionals or computer
> programmers who want to make the actual games, let me know.
>
>
A rather minor point....

As we talk about content to augment teaching specific concepts or tasks ,it
might be better to use the educator terminology of learning object[1] rather
than game.  I see rather a lot of push back when talking to teachers about
'games', but the parse 'learning object' seems to resonate well:)

david

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object

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