Simulation & Gaming articles from September 1998

Simulation & Gaming archives from September 1998

Business simulation games: current usage levels - an update.
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: business training programs; quantitative research; simulation gaming evaluation; simulation games; simulation gaming history; simulation gaming surveys; simulation usage. It has now been more than 40 years since the first known...

Ken Jones.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... Like many others, I stumbled into simulation and gaming by chance. In my case, the chance was called Ed Berman, and the year was 1971. Perhaps because of Ed's ebullient enthusiasm, I attacked the task of writing simulations with more energy...

What are we talking about? (methodological categories of game simulation)(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: categories; games; simulations; facilitators; damage. There is a story about a sculptor who had just finished making a stone elephant. He was asked `How did you do it?' He replied,' I chipped away at those bits that...

Simulations and communication skills in secondary schools.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: communication skills; definitions; evaluation; secondary schools; simulations. Although the use of simulations in higher education, business, and the public services has been developing rapidly, very little simulation has been...

Simulations: reading for action.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: action; materials; reading; simulations; skills. Simulations seem to be unfamiliar territory to most teachers of reading--which is a pity, since in some circumstances they can be a highly effective technique with powerful...

Who's who, who sits where.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: advantages; choosing; disadvantages; language learning; simulations; teacher. Contex This article, published by The Times Educational Supplement on August 14, 1981, was part of a section dealing with the teaching of...

Simulations as examinations.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: assessment; criteria; examinations; simulations; skills. Contex This article, published in 1982 in the SAGSET journal Simulation/Games for Learning (Volume 12, Number 1), was probably written because I was becoming weary...

What happens when students design and run their own simulations?(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: authorship; design; key aspects; pupils/students; simulations. Context This article was published in the proceedings of the 1985 SAGSET conference in Edinburgh. It relates to design of simulations, not simulation...

The survival of the blackest.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: education; race; simulations. Contex The Guardia published this article on February 25, 1986. The paper invented the title. I cannot now remember my original title, but I do remember that it was innocuous, dull, and...

Playing it for real.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: ability; gender; simulations; shyness. Context On June 27, 1986, The Times Educational Supplement published this article on the relationships between simulations and gender and also between simulations and ability....

Interactive events: national differences in participation and categorization.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: architecture; culture; literature; philosophy; simulations. Context This is an extract from one of my articles published in the proceedings of the 1987 ISAGA conference in Venice. By this time, I had come to appreciate...

Beginnings and other starting points.(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: ice; icebreakers; starting points; warm-ups. Contex In novels, in the real world, and in education it is not mandatory to start at the beginning. Yet, icebreakers tend to be restricted to the beginning of courses,...

Three categories of ethics. (includes bibliographical material)(Special Issue: A Quarter Century of Ken Jones.)
September 1, 1998... KEYWORDS: ethics; facilitator; participants; scenario; simulation. Contex This extract is taken from my book Games & Simulations Made Easy. Ethics, in the field of games and simulations, are usually taken to mean the outside...

Leadout: An Experience in Leadership. (simulation game)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1998... LEADOUT: An Experience in Leadership. Hosford, C. L. (1987). Portland, OR: Charles Hosford & Associates (1507 S.E. 129th Avenue, Portland, OR 97233, USA). Reviewed by Beth Levine Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation Basic Data:...

Colonization. (simulation game)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1998... COLONIZATION. Meier, S. and Reynolds, B. (1994). Hunt Valley, MD: Microprose Software (180 Lakefront Drive, Hunt Valley, MD 21030, USA; telephone 410-771-1151). Reviewed by Pierre Corbeil CEGEP de Drummondville, Quebec Basic Data:...