The following links are meant to accompany my presentations on Video Games in Education. These can be used to explore topics more in depth following a presentation, or (if the participants have their own computers) to make the presentation more of a hands-on activity.
Hard Fun (Seymour Papert)
Games 2 Train (Marc Prensky)
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (James Paul Gee)
Virtual Leader (Clack Aldrich)
SimSchool (David Gibson)
funbrain.com (Browser Based Games)
Making History (See also Dave McDivitt’s blog.)
Dimenxian (Learn Math or Die Trying!)
Revolution (A Mod of NeverWinter Nights by MIT)
http://www.peacemakergame.com/