2023–ongoing
Clingo
Clingo is clinical bingo for health students. Instead of numbers you get phrases you might hear on placement. Scan a QR code for a card, someone at the front runs the caller, and when the card is full you shout CLINGO. ScLINGO is the same game with Scouse.
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International students kept arriving on placement and not knowing the phrases people actually say in a hospital, or the Scouse ones people say in Liverpool. Bingo was already a thing everyone understood, so I swapped the numbers for lingo. Students scan a QR code, get a card, someone at the front runs a caller in a browser, and when the card is full they shout CLINGO. Then you talk about what the phrases mean.
ScLINGO is the same game with Scouse. Making a new set is mostly copy a folder, drop in some recordings, and change the word list. There is a little PHP so the caller and the cards stay in sync, which is handy when you are actually in a room with a class.
There is an ECGBL paper, a Liverpool Learning and Teaching Conference talk and poster, and a page on the CEDS site.
The mashup
Bingo night, clinical phrases, Scouse, and a QR code on a phone.
AI-generated guess of the mashup mix, 1 to 5. Click a stat.
Bingo 5/5: Phrases instead of numbers. When the card is full you shout CLINGO.
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Built with
- HTML / JavaScript / CSS
- PHP
Papers
Papers and conference writeups I am on.
- The Impact of Language and Social Communication on the Sense of Belonging among International Students Using ScLINGO Application
The writeup. Cardboard bingo to a web game, then a pilot with MSc mental health nursing students.
- ScLINGO? Go'ed, it's BoSS! Socialising International students into Scouse in the UK Health System
Conference talk. Same story, shorter, with the Scouse title doing some of the work.
- SCLINGO: Go’ed its Boss! Socialising International Students into Scouse in the UK Healthcare System
Poster. Rebecca invented the cardboard version; this is that session on a wall.
Explore Further
DemoPlay
Currently sitting on the games host. Other classroom games live there too; they can get their own pages later.
How to play, who it is for, ScLINGO.
Catalogues Clingo and prints play guides.
LinkLiverpool Centre for Educational Development and Support
Notes to self for media to add
- Hero: a bingo caller on a projector and a phone QR card with clinical phrases. Not 7 and 22: things you hear on placement.
- Screenshots: a filled card; the QR; ScLINGO if it looks different. Not the other games on the hub.
- Short demo: scan QR → card appears → caller plays a phrase → tick → CLINGO. Then ScLINGO if you want the Scouse version.
- YouTube Short: “Bingo, but the numbers are things students hear on placement.”
- Privacy: no student faces, no live session with identifiable people. University branding is fine. GitHub stays off the page.