From lgreene@wkpowerlink.com Mon Feb 22 13:10:07 1999 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:48:58 -0800 From: Louise Greene To: aussie@farrer.riv.csu.edu.au Subject: Playing Aussimoo Greeting Aussibunny: You asked for a report...here goes... Enjoyed the site very much. I especially like the first page will all commands, etiquette notes, etc... Informative for students first moo experience. I will use this site again, I hope it doesn't change too much. The tutorial is a great idea. I was somewhat concerned to see how many of my students in grade 10 couldn't find there way out of a paper bag, their problem solving skills were poor. Very reluctant to read. I think for many the concept of what a moo is was way out there. I wish I had more time in the curriculum to play. Maybe next year, I can set it up better. However my grade 11 computer science students did very well. Many making it to the end of the tutorial in a class. My intent was to show the students a chat zone and moo. Many of our students do play muds and moo, of course these students were much quicker at picking up the game and enjoyed playing yahtzee etc... they were showing me. Even though they were reluctant to play a new moo and wanted to play and show the class theirs, they did end up enjoying and thinking aussimoo was very good and somewhat more difficult. It's a safe place for a teacher to take newbies. I've shown your site to a few more teachers in our district. I'm sure you will see more of us Canucks on line. I need to learn more myself-need to fast track, as I don't have much time for play. It would be fun to role play a novel or current play the students are studying. Time - we spent only 3 classes, I know next time I can get more done in 3 classes. Thanks,