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Re: [school-discuss] Educational Gaming?



El Vie 06 Sep 2002 20:27, escribió:
> A quick question for the group - I'm not an educator by trade, but I am a
> gamer.  My hunch is that a simplistic, good quality trading or Sim game
> could prove useful for PK-8 graders if it was networked.
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> I was wondering if there are any worthy networked educational games
> available as freeware.  I've already snagged the Windows copy of FreeCiv
> and plan to host it off a Linux server, but I'm sure many won't consider
> that educational.
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> Any suggestions?
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simutrans. It's a kind of "Railroad tycoo" , there're coal mines, power 
stations, timber, factories of paper, you have to link producer with consumer.
You can build bus routes. It's fairly educative.

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MGA