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""Within my class, when I introduce an assignment, it's embedded within a storyline," he said."I'm making up a story as I go, often strongly influenced by suggestions from the students. They'll create an entire subplot basically, but, basically it's a reason. The reason you need to take this test is because there is a peril in the kingdom and we need people to go up against this.""

"7/16/13: Back in the 2011-12 school year, I piloted an ELA-specific game overlay titled, "The Kingdom of Diddorol." Although the classroom content remained the same -- standards-based, and true to the district's curriculum maps -- delivery, record-keeping, and a few other educational components were changed. The students became players, and they created avatars. Free-choice writing became "adventuring," lessons became "trainings," quizzes and tests were recast as efforts to tame nefarious creatures, and so on."