We invite you to register now (FREE) and share your expertise with other faculty and staff members at our Annual Academic Technology Learning Conference. Discover new ways to use technology in your classes and engage students. (http://tlcconference2014.sched.org/ )
Prize Drawings:Histrionix™ Learning Company provides interactive, game-based curriculum (and teacher training) to public, private and home schools that improves student achievement by engaging all learning styles, enhancing critical thinking skills and encouraging creative problem solving, which are the building blocks of thoughtful, twenty-first century students — and citizens.
Rick Brennan - the co founder & CEO of Histrionix and a UH alum - will discuss game based learning and its application to the social sciences by introducing his company’s curriculum aligned social studies simulation and strategy game called HISTORIA.
HISTORIA will be published by NYC based E Line Media and Alaska based Upper One Games - the first ever indigenous game company - and released for sale nationwide in the fall of 2014.
The fifty minute presentation will include a short history of Histrionix, an introduction to the tenets of game based learning twenty minute description and a first look at the new iteration of HISTORIA followed by fifteen minute question and answer session.
Presentation will be preceeded by a welcoming message from Ed Hugetz, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University of Houston-Downtown.
