Why would you join this site for English?

English class?? For persuasive writing??

OH DEAR! NOT MORE NOOBIES IN HIGH SCHOOL!

Bloody hell. You all...
And yes, I'm interested, but I simply don't have the time to play.

English as "literature" or as "ESL"?

Either way I think it's a pretty innovative learning tool.

lol Atom

I have 0% idea either what this has to do with english class. But I think we somehow have to relate the gaming experience to a book...???

Sth like that

@AbsoluteZero: Wait who r u

I'm kind of thinking of learning German (or maybe Italian) at some stage in the next 12 months. I think it'd be pretty cool to learn/practice a second language using the wonderful medium of VDip :-)

Someone in SHS...obviously.

@Amby, German and Italian are the dying languages of dying cultures. You might as well learn Sanskrit or Gaelic or Maori. I should think Bahasa or Javanese or even Tagalog would be much more practical.....you never know how useful the kitchen languages will turn out to be as you need to yell at the servant class in your old age.

Actually 3 classes. And there are a couple of reasons to use this in class. But more on that later. Maybe sometime the week after next I can bring my board in at lunch and we can play a fast face to face game. Those are always crazy.

You'll never get a F2F game finished in one lunchtime :D They take forever.

I've done round table-can't leave open negotiations face to face diplomacy- 5 minutes a turn. Its chaos, but good fun. There's an element of f2f that unfortunately is missing in online gaming---all those poker faces! One can't get a game done, but enough and it can always be recorded.

Who is your teacher?

This is very nice.

For those of you confused about how Diplomacy and English class get along, I believe that Diplomacy can cause people to empathize and think about a certain situation or event from another perspective other than their own. Diplomacy requires the diplomat to persuade, to comtemplate, and to analyze. Analyze the action of the board (my ally is probably going to stab me, I see that Italy will stab Turkey, and I can capitalize on that, etc), and to analyze people (She'll never help me after I stabbed her, He should be rational enough to see the good in working together, etc).

Diplomacy has a bunch of really nice traits besides betrayal and winning. Diplomacy teaches the importance of thinking about how your words and decision affect others and affect the big picture, thinking about long term goals and not short term gains, and thinking about how others actually see your decisions. Plus, Classic and other variant maps help in History and Geography a bit. This is my opinion, at least.

What's SHSID anyway?

I wanted to congratulate the teacher, it's a great idea imho.

I'm impressed that I managed to drag gopher back into vDip discussions. Being an Aussie maybe it's be learn Chinese for when the PLA turn up?

We should require all these kids to brand their usernames with a tag somehow. I want to know how to avoid/trick them.

wasn't so long ago that you were one of them KA. ;p

Well, the game is going so slow right now. But then again, the suspense when you aren't sure whether an ally will betray you is enjoyable.

@Amby.....one son, two parents, four grandparents equals very costly wars. I think y'all are safe. Pick out what you might want in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China real estate-wise. There is going to be a lot of empty space for sale in the coming decades.

^That.