Notes on Gaming #2
Thursday, August 6th I purposefully rolled August 6th into today’s post because I didn’t want any of my students reading it and getting any hints. 🙂 I don’t think I’ve said this, but I have created a character – The…
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Notes on Gaming – Week One
If I want to pay attention to how gaming plays out in my instruction then I have to start taking notes. The easiest way (I think) for me to do this is to take notes every day that it is…
Next Steps in Gaming
I’ve outlined a number of ways to get into gaming your classroom. While these have applied to my teacher education courses, the general principles can be utilized across contexts. Remember that I took the ideas from Chris who had initially…
The Item Shop (Gaming in Teacher Education)
We’ve reached a point where things can get a bit confusing. Heck, I created the syllabus for my course and even I had to go reread it a few times to make sure I got everything right for this post.…
Achievements/Badges/Extra XP (Gaming in Teacher Education)
At this point, we’ve done the following: Written a syllabus Identified quests Identified what XP should be for each quest Converted XP into grades And I want to say that I think that’s a great start. I’m going to continue…
Converting XP into Grades (Gaming in Teacher Education)
A couple of weeks ago, I promised to explain how I converted the XP students could earn in my Explorations in Literacy course into a grade. In this post, I will share with you ALL the assignments for the course including…
Earning XP and Grades (Gaming in Teacher Education)
In my last post, I discussed how assignments were set up so that some XP counted for grades and some XP did not. When I shared my directions and scoring for the blogging assignment, I included this chart which outlined…
How to Create Quests (Part II of Gaming in Teacher Education)
Today’s post is the second in my series on how to gamify teacher education courses. Part 1 looked at the overall concept and how I started thinking about it. In this post, I will be talking about how to design…
The Syllabus as Verb
Recently, I wrote a post where I talked about how I structured my syllabus around the terms Read, Watch, Do, & Play. I used these terms because I thought they better captured the spirit of the work I was asking students to do…
Issues of Time in Teaching Online: Part 1
One of the things I have struggled with in going fully online is thinking through issues related to time. Specifically I have had to think through: (a) how much time students should spend engaged in the course during a week…
Teaching Academia 