Web-based Game

This idea is to take and educational web-based game, and set it up  stand-alone in the classroom. Then divide the classroom into two teams and let them play.  By "Game" I mean something like using Create &  Share video-phone and one  team is a group of surgeon specialists and the other team is a remote hospital in  Venezuela where a flood victim needs a particular surgical procedure (one person on the  team would be the "victim.")

A script would need to be written whereby the surgeons give "instructions"  and the remote doctor does them. (Similar to previous NEW activities where instructions  must be followed precisely, often leading to misinterpretation.)

The configuration would be two notebook PCs connected via phone line (using the Home Connected PC hardware from Intel.) This configuration uses the phone lines as a local area  network. It also introduces the students to how easy it is to network in the home now.

Thanks to Pat Mitchell in Oregon for providing this activity idea.

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