Conquer Club

Just wondered if there are any other teachers out there who had played CC with school pupils?

I am a high school teacher here in Scotland (with 11-18 year olds). The school has an activity week in June where all the pupils get a wide choice of activities to do ranging from trips abroad to more educational activities in classrooms. Today I noticed there was a a day of chess and a day of board games being offered. It got me thinking could I do it with CC?

I'm a computing teacher with 20 machines so no problem with access. I am also a premium member so I could set up private games throughout the day for pupils to join.

Can I ask, do 11-18 year olds find risk interesting?

Can anyone see any potential problems I might encounter in the running of such a day? The only one I can see is a limit of 4 games per pupil which isn't a big problem.

Any feedback would be most welcome before I decide whether to go ahead or not.

Cheers, Dave.

I'd say you are a very cool chap for thinking to offer that to your students...

Good luck with it!

u could even make it a torney...i like risk and i am between those ages.

I wouldn't be able to do something like that in the states because I can't introduce students to websites with adult content like this one. I would get in trouble.

spinwizard wrote:u could even make it a torney...i like risk and i am between those ages.

I don't know about others between those ages but I would be interested if i was in your class

lol, ask if any1 has played risk b4...u will want 2 play rt and keep secret alliences out of it. and what school 2 u teach at...Overseas trips!

well they would have to be real time games!

there are many teenagers on this site who seem to enjoy it.

Kugelblitz22 wrote:I wouldn't be able to do something like that in the states because I can't introduce students to websites with adult content like this one. I would get in trouble.

It's actually something that crossed my mind after I posted. The forums are a problem with some of the more "adult" topics. That is the one thing that concerns me. Most of the pupils will be in the age range of 13-17 so they're not too young. Plus we do have a filter that blocks pages with excessive bad/unsuitable language.

bigbullyweedave wrote:

Kugelblitz22 wrote:I wouldn't be able to do something like that in the states because I can't introduce students to websites with adult content like this one. I would get in trouble.

It's actually something that crossed my mind after I posted. The forums are a problem with some of the more "adult" topics. That is the one thing that concerns me. Most of the pupils will be in the age range of 13-17 so they're not too young. Plus we do have a filter that blocks pages with excessive bad/unsuitable language.

Just tell them they are not allowed to visit the forums... No need to do that to play the game anyway.

i am sure they r not that unknowing

As soon as you tell them not to they will, surely?

Usually network guys can disable certain sites...

Could you not just get http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/ blocked on the network by your network administrator?

Guiscard wrote:Could you not just get http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/ blocked on the network by your network administrator?

Good idea. I'll look into that next. Just want to make sure they disable access for pupils and not teachers though!

I think if I can get that sorted it should okay to run with it.

I think that would be great to see in the local newspaper....Conquerclub - an educational resource.

You can even (not kidding) bring in a whole educational bit about probability!
There is certainly enough discertation in the forum about that!

Ev

im 17 from scotland. even if u get the forum blocked theres alot of proxy servers to bypass these protections which filters dont recognise as proxys. you just need to be really carefully. you know what its like here, teachers can get in trouble for the littlest of thing.


gimil

I love risk and I'm in that range Alot of your students would probably like it

gimil wrote:im 17 from scotland. even if u get the forum blocked theres alot of proxy servers to bypass these protections which filters dont recognise as proxys. you just need to be really carefully. you know what its like here, teachers can get in trouble for the littlest of thing.


gimil

I concur - I think you'd be better off getting lack to code you a special feeature that disabled the forum link for certain users that you've set up prior to the event... I'm sure he'd be willing to do a minor one line code change for a small donation - which I'm sure you could get your school to pay.

C.

gimil wrote:im 17 from scotland. even if u get the forum blocked theres alot of proxy servers to bypass these protections which filters dont recognise as proxys. you just need to be really carefully. you know what its like here, teachers can get in trouble for the littlest of thing.


gimil

Yeh but you can so that with everything. They're not gonna stop all IT leessons because some cleverer kids can look at porn through a proxy.

bigbullyweedave wrote:Just wondered if there are any other teachers out there who had played CC with school pupils?

I am a high school teacher here in Scotland (with 11-18 year olds). The school has an activity week in June where all the pupils get a wide choice of activities to do ranging from trips abroad to more educational activities in classrooms. Today I noticed there was a a day of chess and a day of board games being offered. It got me thinking could I do it with CC?

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Can I ask, do 11-18 year olds find risk interesting?

Hmm, keeping Scottish 11-18 year olds occupied? Why not just give them a couple of cans of cider and a stick of glue each, thats how it usually works - right?

Anarkistsdream wrote:Just tell them they are not allowed to visit the forums... No need to do that to play the game anyway.

trust me. if u tell a bunch of teenagers that they aren't allowed to look at the forums then they will do it.

some teenagers will enjoy it but some will ineviatably find it too 'uncool'.
1 possible problem would be IP maybe? it could appear 1 person has 20 multis

just get em to play only games with each other so it stay rt.

u could get tourny privs for the day i reckon so u can set up games without u havin to be in them.....

gimil wrote:im 17 from scotland. even if u get the forum blocked theres alot of proxy servers to bypass these protections which filters dont recognise as proxys. you just need to be really carefully. you know what its like here, teachers can get in trouble for the littlest of thing.

not the teacher's fault. the teacher won't get in trouble for that. i know coz me and mates were caught usin an open proxy. we weren't doin anything dodgy really just listenin to music.

and yeh the filters r pretty gd aside from the proxy side of things although they can b a bit stupid.

i'm 14 and i think it would be pretty fun to have tourney's with my classmates i don't know how your school works out there but maybe you could talk to people in other schools and set up a team and tournaments throughout your district

ya im 14 i love playin this game...play all the time.

I'm 18, but I don't really like this place

can you teach my class???

yeti_c wrote:I concur - I think you'd be better off getting lack to code you a special feeature that disabled the forum link for certain users that you've set up prior to the event... I'm sure he'd be willing to do a minor one line code change for a small donation - which I'm sure you could get your school to pay.

C.

This would be an excellent solution if it's at all possible?

Just blocking access to the forums (and also the chat if possible).

I could get a list of usernames before the event no problem.