[B-Greek] video games and mastering Greek vocabulary

Michael Abernathy mabernathy at conwaycorp.net
Fri Apr 29 10:39:48 EDT 2011


On 4/29/2011 6:52 AM, susan at read-the-bible.org wrote:
Teach2000 has this as one of several test modes.
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy
> Greetings, b-greekers!
>
> Long ago (not long after the approximate era of such computer/video game
> antiques as Pong and the old DOS based "Adventure" - anybody remember
> xyzzy?) I seem to recall a vocabulary drill game that involved quick
> word recognition with Greek words falling from the sky and the quick
> typing of glosses stopping them as they fell. But maybe I was dreaming.
> As I write this it seems barely plausible.
>
> Regardless, this NY Times article is about the factors (e.g. use of
> sound effects, the word "Achievement" and the competition among
> asynchronous players) that make a particular current game attractive. It
> made me wonder if anyone out there is using interactive fun-and-games to
> drill Greek vocabulary or grammar...  if you're developing any such
> thing, email me offlist and I'll be more than happy to beta-test... if
> you see any reason to test on XP :-)
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fashion/01ANGRY.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26
>
> I'm pretty sure I do remember a certain midwestern seminary that had an
> old DOS-based vocabulary drill program that had levels and saved "top
> scores" -- both percent correct and time to complete a set of words --
> we summer intensive students had quite a competition going.  That was a
> Hebrew course, but the same school also used the corresponding Greek
> vocabulary drill program, I believe.  Again, maybe I was dreaming.  In
> the class I was auditing, every day or two we'd have an actual
> paper-and-pencil quiz through whatever level of the computer game vocab
> we were supposed to have reached.  The game's levels were based on word
> frequency in the Hebrew Bible.
>
> Susan Jeffers
> end-of-term grading and whatnot almost done :-)
>
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