Ready Player One Week 1

Welcome! Let's start with the music from Anorak's Invitation.

For our Ready Player One book club, we invite you to join us to read an extremely popular book for young adults, explore the mobile game Ingress and consider playing one or two of the Dystopian games that we'll be putting up over the three weeks.

Pace yourself.....you don't have to do it all. Pick and choose based on your interests.

Here's the introduction and overview for Week 1 and a link to the slides.

Are you ready to get started? Here's the quest and clues given to all the Easter egg hunters or gunters as they are called.

Three Hidden Keys open three secret gates

Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits

And those with the skill to survive these straits

Will reach The End where the prize awaits

Ready Player One 

Please join Metagame Book Club Google + Community as the asynchronous portion of the book club will happen there.  We have posted some questions as an introduction to let us get to know who is participating in the book club. We'll also post weekly questions, blogs, announcements and any additional webinars we find that we think could be of interest. Please also post anything that you find. 

Ready Player One pages 1 - 166 Level; audio all of Level 1

Ready Player One Wiki http://readyplayerone.wikia.com/wiki/Ready_Player_One_Wiki

Discussion Questions

1) What do you like or not like about the book so far? Would you recommend this to someone else? Could you use this book in your class or for any other school activity?

2) How is the OASIS school different than our F2F schools? What about our online learning courses and programs? Is it better? Are there things that we can or have implemented that match some of the benefits of the OASIS school? What more could we be doing either F2F or online?

3)The OASIS is definitely shown as being an escape from the problems of Wade's world. Wade seems to think this is good. Morrow seems to think it is bad. Do we use games, the internet, and virtual worlds to escape from a problematic reality? Do we or can we use these virtual connections to make the world a better place?

Track 1 : Ingress

Ingress is a pervasive game that extends the game experience out into the real world public spaces.

Track 2: Dystopian Arcade

Shall We Play a Game: Fauxasis