Frankel Jewish Academy is pleased to pave the way in educational gaming with the first Jewish game of its kind - Kerem b'Yavneh
Get excited by watching the trailer:
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www.youtube.com]
Be inspired by new vistas of student learning by playing the free game (it may take a few days to unlock all the features):
Web version (including Chromebook!): [
www.jewishgaming.com]
iPad app: [
itunes.apple.com]
Educators please note: There is an educator's portal where you can create your own class communities and assign separate questions and quests into the game, and push rewards to players. Please e-mail me for access to this feature.
The blurb:
The Vineyards of Yavneh Await!
The fun and quirkiness of your favorite farming and city-building games meet the richness and vibrancy of Jewish ritual, history, and thought. Run a profitable homestead, observe festivals, learn Torah, and experience life and community in ancient Yavneh, the birthplace of post Temple Judaism.
Kerem B'Yavneh~(Vineyards of Yavneh or KeBY) is a casual, social, religious education, homestead-simulation, world-building game. There is even some cooking involved! Our story unfolds in ancient Yavneh, a small agricultural community that was transformed into the center of Jewish life and learning after the destruction of Jerusalem's Second Temple by the Roman Empire in 70 CE (the subject of our first game, Sparks of Eternity). You, a budding scholar-farmer, are leading this transformation. In KeBY, players must adhere to traditional Rabbinic law, culture, and practice while raising a family, growing crops of increasing diversity and goodness, trading in the marketplace, and helping Yavneh flourish.
Never before have there been Jewish games both so cutting-edge and so well-adapted to use in an educational setting. KeBY makes history come alive, brings context to Rabbinic literature, and provides a deeply interactive vehicle for critical thinking, discussion, and classroom debate. The game, which can be played by each student concurrently as a classroom community, provides in-game rewards for out-of-game work in school. Instead of using a pay-to-play model, KeBY promotes study-to-play, collaboration, and friendly competition amongst players. It enables the teacher to create customized content within the game to enhance and reinforce classroom learning and motivate players to truly engage in the material.
Rabbi Reuven Margrett
Director of Jewish Studies
Frankel Jewish Academy
www.frankelja.org
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/29/2016 07:29AM by mlb.
