Game Building Tools

• ARIS  – Game authoring platform that I’ve used for most of my games.
• Mark Chen’s Game Making Tools Google Sheet – Compilation of tools for game building.
• Twine – Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

Geospatial Tools Resources

• Geospatial Tools for Teaching & Learning – I teach this course at Lehigh University. This link will bring you to my collection of Story Maps that explore the following topics:
  • GPS & Geocaching
  • Geography Basics
  • The Significance of Geospatial Tools
  • Google Earth – Part I
  • Google Earth – Part II
  • SS Savannah
  • The GoogleVerse
  • Map Projections
  • ArcGIS – Part I
  • ArcGIS – Part II
  • GIS in the Community
  • GIS in the Classroom
  • ESRI Story Maps
  • Local Inquiry & Data Collection
  • Spatial Thinking
  • Map Design
  • Maps as Advocacy
  • Other Geospatial Tools
  • Pedagogy & GST
  • Geospatial Games
  • Innovation & Diffusion
  • Computational Thinking

Computational Thinking Resources

• Dr. Thomas C. Hammond’s Computational Thinking & Social Studies Page
• EdSurge Article: Computational Thinking Is Critical Thinking. And It Works in Any Subject.

Data Resources

• Google Sheet of Data Sources

Miscellaneous

• The Most Dangerous Writing App – Got writer’s block? Try this.
• Frankenplace is an interactive thematic map search engine that uses geographic context as a means to discover, organize, and interactively visualize the documents related to a search query
• Histography – every dot on this interactive timeline is an event recorded in wikipedia

GBL Studies Resources

• Learning, Education and Games: 100 Games to use in the Classroom and Beyond Edited By Dr. Karen Schrier
• My game-based learning group on Mendeley – literature
• Great GBL research guide: http://guides.lib.lawrence.edu/games
• Journals: https://goo.gl/bFRCp6
• Conferences: https://goo.gl/npsDqd
• GBL-friendly places to publish