{"id":197,"date":"2008-04-05T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-04-05T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T17:28:15","slug":"battledecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Battledecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Tom and Jim, who blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/bionicteaching.com\/\">Bionic Teaching<\/a>, are two of the freshest voices in educational blogging.  I&#8217;m a little late on commenting on <a href=\"http:\/\/bionicteaching.com\/?p=552\">this post about Battledecks<\/a>, a very funny and challenging powerpoint karaoke game played at the SXSW festival.  What makes Tom&#8217;s post particularly helpful is he includes ideas for how this might be integrated in a variety of different classes.  And, he makes an important caveat: you can&#8217;t do this well with just bulleted lists of information.  I&#8217;m a visual learner so went looking for video of the Battledecks competition.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video from Rocketboom:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n7hlyC7NPUc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already thinking about doing this with my undergrads on Monday!  Or, at least show them the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Tom and Jim, who blog at Bionic Teaching, are two of the freshest voices in educational blogging. I&#8217;m a little late on commenting on this post about Battledecks, a very funny and challenging powerpoint karaoke game played at the SXSW festival. What makes Tom&#8217;s post particularly helpful is he includes ideas for how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battledecks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-skills","category-new-media","category-technology"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}