The great thing about this project is how accessable it is. As much as it seems to teach about nutrition, it also teaches about visual media and family and community involvement in eating habits. It also certainly falls under gamification instead of game ...
Zombies, Run! is a fantastic example of gamification. Sold initially as the running app for gamers, it tries to straddle the line between game and running app in ways that are rather different from other running apps, which often rely on points systems or ...
Great questions, all. Some of my participants did return to the game when they needed some extra motivation. They would replay missions that they enjoyed or ones that they had had a particularly good run on. ZR has actually come out with a second season w ...
With gamification's adoption by businesses and the different intended outcomes of businesses and higher ed, this breakd in expectations is not all that surprising. In A Theory of Fun, Raph Koster says " One wonders, then, why learning is so dam ...
Danielle, your post made me think of children's toys, specifically Chutes and Ladders, which is arguably the least fun game created in history and sells itself as teaching counting. It's particular brand of serendipity is in no way fair. There i ...
When we presented on using video editing software and teaching film at Computers & Writing, I was reminded that, even though we were in a lab, the students were much more comfortable working with their own laptops. I don't find this surprising. I ...
While I have not used googledocs for group discussion, I am using for a group project in one of my first-year composition courses (FYC). It is perhaps because it is one of the first times I have had such access to my student's writing process (I cre ...
Thanks for the response. I appreciate the commentary here on digital humanities and its intersections with Humanities. Whether or not it is a promotion campaign, i wonder if it isn't necessar to introduce those outside the Humanities that what we do ...
I am a huge fan of googledocs in the classroom, both as an instructor and as a student. I think that it gives students the chance to work on documents in a way they couldn't before. One of my favorite things about review and student use of googledocs ...
Catrina, I have spent a few days thinking about the two big issues you see using this technology in your classroom. I have not used sound cloud, but I have seen it used and commented on for blogs/articles where individuals annotate an new song. I have fo ...
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