CC With High School Pupils

[bigbullyweedave]

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?

More the Buckie in your neck of the woods???

[Kahless]

How do you know he's from Belfast, Dave?

[RobinJ]

Its a great idea - I'm between those ages and I like Risk but I think you might struggle to get a whole class interested.

[bigbullyweedave]

Nah, a captive audience. 750 kids. Half of them are out of school on trips etc. The other 325 either sign up for stuff like this or end up in the assembly hall watching Shrek and Shrek2 all day long!

[DoomsDay]

Conquerclub is conpoletely wiped out at my school, but i am in Ontario, Canada and in elementary school, maybe you should check their computers to see if conquerclub works

[bigbullyweedave]

I check my game periodically throughout the day and it seems fine. No reason for it to be blocked other than the forums and chats.

I am on enough freefall in the rankings at the moment without school banning it

[spinwizard]

lol

[Eloquent_Author]

I'm a highschool student and I enjoy it lots.

[flashleg8]

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?

More the Buckie in your neck of the woods???

I was going to post that, but since its an international site, I thought it might go over some posters heads.

[Anarkistsdream]

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?

More the Buckie in your neck of the woods???

I was going to post that, but since its an international site, I thought it might go over some posters heads.

Yep... No idea what this means.

[Kahless]

Check out the thread below to discover the delights of buckie

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13788

[bigbullyweedave]

Anyway bringing this back on topic I got word back from the Council IT department and they can block the forum for pupils so no problem there.

So that just leaves how to set it up. Not sure of numbers. Might just be a small handful. I'll put a limit of 20 on it as I have 20 machines in my classroom.

I initially thought of private games for this but that would mean me being in every game. Fine for the first game but after that I wouldn't want to be in every game. Is this something that tournament privileges could be given out for? Even if it's just for 48 hours or so?

Cheers, Dave.

[yeti_c]

Anyway bringing this back on topic I got word back from the Council IT department and they can block the forum for pupils so no problem there.

So that just leaves how to set it up. Not sure of numbers. Might just be a small handful. I'll put a limit of 20 on it as I have 20 machines in my classroom.

I initially thought of private games for this but that would mean me being in every game. Fine for the first game but after that I wouldn't want to be in every game. Is this something that tournament privileges could be given out for? Even if it's just for 48 hours or so?

Cheers, Dave.

No no...

You can create the private game then drop out of it instantly... thus leaving a private game empty - then circulate numbers and passwords.

C.

[firth4eva]

edit

[bigbullyweedave]

No no...

You can create the private game then drop out of it instantly... thus leaving a private game empty - then circulate numbers and passwords.

C.

I'm sure I've tried that before and the game folded because no one else signed up for the game was a premium member

[tahitiwahini]

You can create the private game then drop out of it instantly... thus leaving a private game empty - then circulate numbers and passwords.
C.

Not true. The game dies if there are no players. I just tried it.

Now perhaps, if you created a bunch of games, let at least one additional person join each game, and then drop out of the games yourself, it might work. That's not something I can verify though.

[bigbullyweedave]

I'm sure I tried setting up a game, a couple of players joined, I dropped out and the game died because no one remaining was premium?

[Guiscard]

Why not make it a tourny for your kids? Then you'd get tourny privileges...

I'm sure they wouldn't mind giving you privileges anyway, as if your bringing 20 new members at least a few of those might stay in the long run and potentially go premium...

Are you gonna put them all through 'refer-a-friend'???

[bigbullyweedave]

Don't you have to do a "public" tournament before you get privileges?

[MExe]

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.

You are a teacher, so you should know that on that age they can like Risk.

I was playing Risk with friends in years 12-17 so I think you are on the perfect age for it.

[lilwdlnddude]

i am in the age range and i would love it if my teachers would do that for me!!! lol

[tahitiwahini]

It seems like you should be talking to one of the tournament moderators about this:

AK_iceman or Hugh.G.Rection

Maybe there's something they can do for you.

Contact one of the moderators, or PM lackattack.

[thegreathal]

I'm 17...and in HS . Lots of games are educational; of course CC can entail lots of, uh, enriching thought. Enjoy? I bought the membership, which is a lot more of my intake with no job. (Put in a student option, CC!)


Blocking forums? Wow, what a real insulting thing to do. I'm sure they wouldn't care less to go on or not, or would go on at home. Can't you just turn a blind eye? Nice lesson plan though.

[Sammy gags]

My Western Civ. teacher taught me how to play RISK

[RockSnake]

Im from the Fairfax County legion of HS CC players. We started almost 2 months ago and we all had 3 or 4 accounts because our games spaces got filled up and it was convenient. CC caught and converted all of us to Premium and now we all just have premium and play all day at school. A word of caution, students like us ask to "go to the Bathroom" and sneak out to a laptop or computer lab to play CC. Im not kidding, we have 70 CC members in a facebook group and we organize RT games throughout the day. We all already got into college and school is just a waste of time now so our teachers dont care either.