Apollo Games: CASP Launches Online Integrated Learning System (Patent Pending)

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

CASP Launches Online Integrated Learning System (Patent Pending)

Author: CASP Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:19:51 EST

News Release

April 21, 2007

The Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP) has developed a three-part literacy system that engages youth in language and media literacy learning while making a positive intervention in online game spaces. Launched on April 23, 2007, Shakespeare's birthday, CASP's Online Integrated Learning System (OILS; Patent Pending) is a hybrid online/in- or out-of-class system that fuses a fast-paced, highly interactive game play environment that is rich with language and media literacy content with in-class learning modules. The system allows teachers to use the huge volume of research and pedagogical material created by CASP to reinforce the online experience. The three main OILS components include 'Speare: The Literacy Arcade Game, the Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet, and the Shakespeare Learning Commons.

'Speare: The Literacy Arcade Game:

'Speare is a fun game that teaches literacy skills as an outcome of spontaneous game play in an authentically appealing interface. The game has been carefully designed to entertain in a way that balances its entertainment value with its pedagogical outcomes.

'Speare fully integrates gaming and educational goals to the degree that the two are indistinguishable.

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