So it's final time and I wanted to make things exciting for my students in the last class (the final review.) I thought of having a Jeopardy game with cheap prizes for the winners. My classroom has computers for each student, and a multimedia projector, so I figured we could do it over the 'net. Here's what I envision:
Jeopardy Game Over the Network: ------------------------------- Two views: player and Alex Trebek (teacher) Alex Trebek's view is projected on a multimedia projector for all the class to see. It shows a grid for the categories and the questions and the names of all the players. Alex clicks on the square to uncover the question & that question is shown on the projector, as well as on each player's view. The player's view is simple: they log on to the game and wait for the question to be shown. If they know the answer, they click on their [ANSWER] button. The first player to click is highlighted on Alex Trebek's view for all to see. The player then says(or types?) his answer and either gets points (tallied on the player's screen as well as on Alex's) or if wrong, the other students have the opportunity to click on the [ANSWER] button to try their luck. Question: does a small app like this exist already? Would it be easier in PHP or Java or Ada? =] Would it be easier to just draw a grid on the whiteboard and do this by hand? Anybody have any other ideas on how to make a final review exciting? Thanks! Ryan p.s. 'course it's probably not appropriate to mention that spaces in my linux-enabled condo are still up for grabs, so I certainly won't! Also, I'll say nothing about the free web hosting that comes with it. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
