Puzzle Pirates *is* free to download, with Win, Mac, and Linux clients.
What are the Prices?
Pricing for Puzzle Pirates is as follows:
Monthly: $9.95 / month.
Quarterly: $19.95 / first quarter, $24.95 / subsequent. [ $7.90 / month average over a year ]
Annually: $74.95 / year. [ $6.25 / month ]
Thanks for this post. I had given up finding a copy in the SF Bay Area (the only ones that would report in-stock on the website were returned, defective boxes). Using the logic that Gamestops get shipments in reasonable parity with yeach other, I managed to grab 3 from the store on Stevens Creek before they closed on Wednesday. They had recieved 30 that morning; my purchase had them down to 7. Which, I guess, is one way to remove them from the shelves.
-- EG - the keyboard was for giving the computer instructions, and the tape-recorder allowed you to store those instructions and play them back at a later date.
That's a key point that young students now don't get. I teach 5th - 9th graders and, with very few exceptions, the keyboard is a data entry device. The mouse selects from options, and the keyboard is what you use to type. The idea that you can *decide* what the computer will do and then describe it through some form of writing is absolutley foreign. There's no real way to get this across in 10 minutes, unfortunatley. I've found that playing and writing text adventures / IF to be a good spring board.
Good concept! In reading Churchill's account of the evacuation of Dunkirk I was suprised how much action and action and heroism appears in the course of a protracted retreat. You sometimes get to play the "last man on the wall," buying time for others to escape, but I can't think of any games that really took the concept of a large scale retreat seriously.
i need a what at the end of my message?
I work at a 6-8 school in a K-8 district, and the problems of hiring people is much akin to the problems of buying random tech. They need a framework.
I'm working hard within myposition to open up the respectable faccilities we have here to something other than Oregon Trail and clip art.
Basically, my mission has become pushing the district's concpet of computer use beyond where it was when I was in junior high school. It's an uphill struggle to get administration to recognize that a great way for students to learn real, usefull computer skills is by trial and lots and lots of error.
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Puzzle Pirates *is* free to download, with Win, Mac, and Linux clients. What are the Prices? Pricing for Puzzle Pirates is as follows: Monthly: $9.95 / month. Quarterly: $19.95 / first quarter, $24.95 / subsequent. [ $7.90 / month average over a year ] Annually: $74.95 / year. [ $6.25 / month ]
Thanks for this post. I had given up finding a copy in the SF Bay Area (the only ones that would report in-stock on the website were returned, defective boxes). Using the logic that Gamestops get shipments in reasonable parity with yeach other, I managed to grab 3 from the store on Stevens Creek before they closed on Wednesday. They had recieved 30 that morning; my purchase had them down to 7. Which, I guess, is one way to remove them from the shelves.
-- EG - the keyboard was for giving the computer instructions, and the tape-recorder allowed you to store those instructions and play them back at a later date.
That's a key point that young students now don't get. I teach 5th - 9th graders and, with very few exceptions, the keyboard is a data entry device. The mouse selects from options, and the keyboard is what you use to type. The idea that you can *decide* what the computer will do and then describe it through some form of writing is absolutley foreign. There's no real way to get this across in 10 minutes, unfortunatley. I've found that playing and writing text adventures / IF to be a good spring board.
Good concept! In reading Churchill's account of the evacuation of Dunkirk I was suprised how much action and action and heroism appears in the course of a protracted retreat. You sometimes get to play the "last man on the wall," buying time for others to escape, but I can't think of any games that really took the concept of a large scale retreat seriously. i need a what at the end of my message?
I work at a 6-8 school in a K-8 district, and the problems of hiring people is much akin to the problems of buying random tech. They need a framework.
I'm working hard within myposition to open up the respectable faccilities we have here to something other than Oregon Trail and clip art.
Basically, my mission has become pushing the district's concpet of computer use beyond where it was when I was in junior high school. It's an uphill struggle to get administration to recognize that a great way for students to learn real, usefull computer skills is by trial and lots and lots of error.