We+The+Jury

== The educational game that I played was We The Jury. This game is all about learning the process of how a jury makes a decision about who is guility or not. At the begining of the game there is a group of people like avatars sitting in a jury box. As the player you get to pick one of the characters. There are three men and three women to choose from of all different shapes and cultural backgrounds. You are placed either in civil court or criminal court. You are given a little bit of background information on the case, but must of the information will be provided once you are in the jury room and your are deliberating. The jury members are then sent off to deliberate on the decision. In order to, complete the level, in five days, you as the character must use the evidence avaliable on a table to convince the other people in the room to think the way that you do. You as the player are able to make it as fast or as slow as you want to. Once you have completed your goal you are awarded a set of points and you can move on to the next level. ==

== One of the biggest things that I learned from this game is that you can't just say you have a side and that will just make people agree with your opinion. In the game, you have to support your opinion with a combination of facts. While this may take a little bit longer then usual, it is a good real world experience for students to use. Students could also apply this to a writing exercise after the game. I believe that I would play this game after introducing the concept of criminal and or civil court. While the game does give you some background information on what some of the termnology means I believe it would be a more useful tool for students that understood the entire process of the criminal justice and civil justice field. ==

== There are alot of ways that this game could teach students. One of the main ways that it taught students was if you don't use the right combination of clues and expressions when talking to a person then you can't convince them to join your side so you have to wait for another day to try to convince them again. If you are struggling with getting the right combination of clues together then the game tries to help you out by either putting more clues out there and by providing more statements for you to use to try to convince your fellow jury members. ==

== I really liked this game. As a teacher what I really liked was that at the end of the game there is a score chart of all the points that you got and in what area of the game. This would make it very easy to give students a set of requirements that they needed to meet in order to get an A, B, C and so on, on the assignment. I also liked the interactive avaters. I thought there could have been more personalization in terms of designing the avater and the character's personality. ==