Educator Asks About Year-Round Value

"How do your education customers use Game Show Presenter software throughout the year to make it a worthwhile investment?" That's a great question we received from a university purchaser this week.

In a university setting, here are some of the many ways our customers are doing just that:

• pretest reviews to help students prepare for their exams
• periodic classroom reviews to keep students engaged
• orientations for new hires, new students and parents. The quiz show is a fun way to present dry info.
• special activity events, such as quiz bowl competitions and trivia quiz nights
• staff training of all kinds
• student health outreach presentations
• student recruiting presentations

As you can see, there are lots of situations where you can enliven classes, meetings, events and presentations with Game Show Presenter.

When it comes to the core mission of education, the program really delivers. Here's how a Computer Science Professor described it: "May I say that your Game Show Presenter program is a total hit with my Computer Science students. My students have found your software interesting, engaging and memorable. It is the memorable part that means the most to me. I use your software to prepare students for midterms and final exams and it is very effective."

The return on investment gets even better because universities as well as K-12 schools are welcome to make use of our academic discount rates.

Children's Museum Exhibit Includes Quiz Show

Last month the Children's Museum of Connecticut opened a new Mars exhibit, which includes Game Show Presenter running in an educational kiosk. The game show runs as a quiz designed to attract kids and find out how much they learned after touring the "Blue Planet, Red Planet" exhibit. Kids use buttons built in to the exhibit to answer the quiz show questions. We hope a few of you Game Show Presenter fans will have a chance to see it in action! The museum is running a special version of the software that manages the quiz game as a standalone attraction rather than as a presentation.

Thanks to Educational Software Cooperative

It was an honor to be picked by the Educational Software Cooperative for its "2010 Outstanding Achievement Award" this month in Dallas, TX. Game Show Presenter is marking its 10th year as a fun tool for teachers, students and trainers. Thanks ESC!

Need a Summer Project? Build Your Own Buzzers!

If you are off for the summer and looking for a fun project, how about building your own game show buzzers to work with Game Show Presenter? If you are not now ROFL, then perhaps you have the DIY-gene that makes such projects possible for you and not others.

Thanks to Dan Hoover, a Game Show Presenter-user, here is a great tutorial on how to build your own game show buzzers.

The Surprising Science of Motivation

This 20-minute video delivers surprising insights about motivation.

Keeping Them Engaged

This video shows how our friend Bobby Brooks helps educators keep students attentive and motivated. More info. at Keeping Them Engaged

Keeping Them Engaged from Bobby Brooks on Vimeo.

Cheap Computers and Educational Games for Developing World

 
 I was impressed by Derek Lomas' insights and actions regarding educational games for the developing world. Derek was selected as a 2009 Pop!Tech fellow. Check it out in this video of his presentation and web site, Playpower Foundation..