The Great Wired Hope
If you want to get something done on the Internet, ask a teenager. I just went back to teaching today. On break I showed my blog to a student I've worked with off and on for the past two years.
The idea being, "look how much learning you can accomplish with a blog!"
So we played around with my most recent post about 404s, and I showed him all the cool links.
Like this one.
Within a zeptosecond of seeing this page for the supposedly fake adventure game Zork, my student (we'll call him "Max") had acclimated to the required syntax and procedure, and was playing a lively treasure-hunt game complete with forests, gilded birds' eggs, and secret passageways.
The secret?
Type "open mailbox" and then "read leaflet." Thereafter, offer instructions in simple verb-object combinations such as "look east," or "climb tree."
And I'm teaching him English.
categories: amusement teaching technology
posted by lisa schamess @ 14:41
3 Comments:
I absolutely agree with this post. Everyone needs a teenager.
That game is intrigueing (couldn't find spelling instructions but HAD to use that word). I'm stuck and cannot get the door open, and now I have to get ready for a meetin'. I'll definately try again later. I MAY have to ask you to ask your young friend for some hints... Maybe...
OK, I am soooo not qualified to play this game. The thing got me out of my freaking mind. I opened the mailbox, etc. (and then closed it - about the only satisfaction I have extracted thus far)wouldn't let me open the door, wouldn't let me break the board. So I say "find axe" and it says to me "I don't see one", and you know it just stood there like a dude in front of the refrigerator "The peanut butter's not in here", you know, WELL F***ING LOOK FOR IT! And then I just flat out cribbed your suggestions word for word;
ME: "Look east."
IT:"Huh?" (I'm not kidding, this is exactly what it says to me.)
ME:"Climb tree".
IT:"I don't see one."(Again with the...you know, like it just can't be BOTHERED to take TWO STEPS to find one.)
ME:"GO LOOK AROUND AND FIND A MOTHER F***ING AXE YOU MISERABLE PIECE OF SH*T!"
IT(reasonably enough):"I don't understand."
And so it went.
OK, well, thanks so much it was fun, must do it again, hugs and kisses...
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