It is the “if you can’t beat ’em” strategy… But by monitoring the conversation and engaging in it teachers or professors can encourage students to participate in class-in a way they may be more comfortable doing.
If you miss class, just follow the #BLAW643 hashtag (so far, there are no tweets mentionig that). I know that there are risks to encouraging the use of “distracting” devices like smart phones in classrooms: ensuring that students are on-task on their phones is a challenge cyber bullying and “off-topic, inappropriate or even bullying remarks” are a possibility. The New York Times reports:Įrin Olson, an English teacher in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, is among a small but growing cadre of educators trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion. Now it seems that others are finding new ways to capitalize on platforms like this to enhance education and facilitate discussion. It was great to read and contribute to the community’s conversation. At times updates to the conference hashtag were coming in by the dozens every time I refreshed the Twitter app on my phone. I was recently at a conference of marketers where the use of Twitter and other social media to interact and build upon the face-to-face interactions was essentially the base expectation for attendees. Opus Magnum works great because it gets you to work great.I have a Twitter account, but at times-like many others-I don’t use it or really gain that much value from the steady flow of tweeted headlines, “5 tips for blah blah blah” and banal updates on what’s for lunch. That simple feeling, of personal pride in a creation plugs into the very best qualities of not only the puzzle genre but all of creative play. And, naturally, you can generate gifs of them at a click of a button so everyone else can appreciate your genius. I can watch my machines’ dances of arms and pistons, patterns of elements slotting perfectly into place, forever. The fact that Opus Magnum is exquisitely presented, with each arm and component cast in burnished steel and moving with faultless precision just seals its appeal. Heck, you can forget the ratings and build the most insanely convoluted machines instead. Puzzle games are rarely so free-wheelingly competitive, and the pleasure in that is down to how broad your options are. Put it this way: I had 12 hours on the clock when I started the second chapter of its five 12 hours of bragging over the early puzzles with my friends, being crushed by their counter-designs, and trying to come back with something superior. You can spend hours refining, rebuilding and reimagining your machines to shave cycles off them. But before you know it, you’ll be caught up in mechanical arms races, and this, my apprentice, is when you’re playing the real Opus Magnum. The three ratings are somewhat divergent from each other-a fast machine often costs a lot, for example-so you have to decide for yourself which one you value. It’s your job to combine them from a predefined set of elements and components, transmuting air into salt, quicksilver into higher and higher grades of metal. It might be booze to bolster an elderly soldier’s courage or a ladder to help stage a robbery, but whatever you’re making, it’s a set configuration of elements-air, water, fire and earth-and various types of metal.
In each puzzle you’re tasked to produce a specific alchemical product. If you bounced off SpaceChem’s cold abstractness (I did) or felt bamboozled by Shenzhen I/O’s arcane complexity (me too), you might find yourself captivated by this one. But despite Opus Magnum’s fantastical setting, in which you play an alchemist caught between warring Germanic families, it’s probably his most accessible yet. He went on to make games about electronics (Shenzhen I/O), computer chips (TIS-1000), and creating factories for aliens in the first-person Infinifactory. Magnum is probably most similar to his first and best-known, SpaceChem, in which you build chemistry machines.
OPUS MAGNUM TWITTER SERIES
Opus Magnum is the latest in a series of similar machine-making games to which developer Zach ’Zachtronics’ Barth has apparently devoted his creative life.
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