Rome Kamoo This presentation was originally created for CLMS Hawaii, 2002' The movie files associate

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Rome KamooThis presentation was originally
created for CLMS Hawaii, 2002. The movie files
associated with it have not been included to
maintain the privacy of the students and due to
the large file sizes of the movies. For more
information, contact Marie Sontag, MA Education
mesontag_at_hotmail.com

• Virgils Aeneid

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What is the Rome Kamoo?
The Rome Kamoo thrusts students into a virtual
world environment as they role-play one of the
characters from Virgil's Aeneid. Students make
choices in the story similar to situations faced
by the fictional characters. This online, real
time environment enables students to interact
with each other, help each other, make trades, or
even fight each other if they find themselves on
opposite sides.
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What is the Rome Kamoo?
The right side of the screen describes the
students location, such as Carthage, Sicily,
etc. It can also describe the characters or
items found at that location. This screen
provides a description of Turnus.
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What is the Rome Kamoo?
The top left side of the screen keeps a running
dialogue of conversations at that location.
Students type their interactions in the bottom
left corner.
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What is the Rome Kamoo?
First, students read a paraphrased, online,
abridged version of Virgils Aeneid. This classic
tells the mythical story of how Rome was founded
by survivors from the Trojan War. As students
read the story, they learn new vocabulary and
familiarize themselves with the storys
characters. Next, they choose which character
they will become when they interact in the
virtual world of the Rome Kamoo.
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Home - Directions - Rubrics - Standards - Kamoo
Link - Review Puzzles - Teacher Tips The
Aeneid Written in Latin in by Virgil (70-19
BC) paraphrased and abridged by Marie Sontag from
an English translation by John Dryden Chapter
1 Lost at Sea Jealous Juno, the wife of Jove,
(Jupiter) looked out from her celestial palace
and, to her dismay, spotted Aeneas and his crew
sailing for Italy. Juno poured out her anger to
Aolus, god of the wind. "A race of wandering
slaves, abhorred by me, with prosperous passage
cut the Tuscan sea to fruitful Italy their
course they steer, and for their vanquished gods
design new temples there. Raise all thy winds
with night involve the skies sink or disperse
my fatal enemies."
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How does the Rome Kamoo help literacy?
Students must use word processing skills and
spell correctly in order to interact in the Rome
Kamoo. They move to various locations and make
decisions, hoping to be the first to earn five
coins. The more familiar students are with the
story and the characters of the Aeneid, the more
success they will experience in the virtual world.
Pray to Neptune? Start a fire? Shore hunt?Will
Aeneas agree to fight Turnus? What will you do
in the Underworld?
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How does the Rome Kamoo help literacy?
Pray to Neptune? Start a fire? Shore hunt?Will
Aeneas agree to fight Turnus? What will you do
in the Underworld?
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Why an online, virtual world environment to
teach literacy?
Don Tapscott, author of Growing Up Digital The
Rise of the Net Generation, (McGraw-Hill, 1998)
writes that people are learning, playing,
communicating, working and creating communities
very differently than their parents.
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What does this mean for us as teachers?
Marc Prensky, a former math and reading teacher
in Harlem, has an MBA from Harvard and a MA from
Yale. He writes that years of what he terms new
media socialization (a generation of students
who grew up with MTV, Internet, twitch-speed
games, information access, multi-tasking,
graphics-first technology) has led to actual
cognitive differences in the way those 30 years
and younger learn, when compared to those of us
30 years of age and older.

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What does this mean for us as teachers?

William D. Winn, Director of the Learning Center
at the University of Washingtons Human Interface
Technology Laboratory, states that children
raised in the computer age think differently
from the rest of us. They develop hypertext
minds. They leap around. Its as though their
cognitive structures were parallel, not
sequential.
Patricia Marks Greenfield writes in a Harvard
Press publication that students, now used to
parallel processing due to their immersion in a
media-rich environment, may actually retard their
learning processes by conducting non-parallel
thought processes.
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What does this mean for us as teachers?
We need to harness the strengths of the
multimedia environment and retool them for
educational purposes. The Kamoo provides us with
this opportunity. The Rome Kamoo and study of
the Aeneid is just one application of this.
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What does this mean for us as teachers?
Besides travelling to locations mentioned in the
Aeneid and interacting with other Aeneid
characters, the Rome Kamoo also links students to
interactive, online games, puzzles and Flash
files providing students with other
opportunities to achieve their gaming goals.
Review Games and Puzzle links for the
Aeneid Review of Chapter 1 http//www.cooperis.
com/quizzes/other/020614mediterr.htm Story
review http//www.quia.com/pop/31550.html Review
of the characters http//www.quia.com/jw/45712.ht
ml Review of the Latin characters
http//www.quia.com/rr/31933.html Review of
Pallas http//www.cooperis.com/quizzes/other/0206
16pallas_q.htm Gods and goddesses
http//www.quia.com/rr/31919.html Review of gods
and goddesses, Part II http//www.quia.com/cb/239
93.html Vocabulary words review
http//www.quia.com/jw/45700.html Review of the
Underworld http//www.quia.com/hm/82700.html
Whack-A-Cerberus Game Click here  
http//.kamoo.dragonangel.net