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This Scoop.it is excellent. I go to it to find out about new uses of educational technology and it rarely disappoints! Typically I don't post links that just go to a list of links, but I think this is worth it.

20 Coolest Augmented Reality Experiments in Education So Far - Online Universities

"A new way to manage classroom instruction is slowly creeping into the world of education: " Gamification ". Gamifying simply means turning the class content and the way students learn into a game with a rewards system, quests, experience levels, and healthy competition." This page is more useful for K-12 educators, but there are a LOT of resources that will still be helpful for post-secondary educators as well. This is more of a list of resources and definitions than any kind of critical discussion or a list of practical suggestions, but it's still very useful.

"This is the gamification of education, and students are winning," the professor told me."

List of entries with additional links in EDUCATION.

This is Mind Erasure (aka Sherry Jones) here!  Here is my final curated project of every activity I have done in Games MOOC II. This page is created for earning the Networked Educator Badge.

Even Chronicle of Higher Education comes on board with badges.

Great site for understanding how gamification may work in business and it is transferable to education Gary Hayes is really on this!

Oct 26, 2012 and Nov 15, 2012 - I created this webpage as part of my Oct 26, 2012 Metro State University's Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference Workshop titled: "Gamify the Classroom," and my Nov 15, 2012 webinar presentation for the G.A.M.E. (Gamers Advancing Meaningful Education" webinar series: "It Takes a Guild Episode 4" http://youtu.be/UTva4mpLZBI

My students (both university & community college) will be enjoying virtual celebrations this week as part of writing and research papers and projects on Dia de los Muertos.

Chronicle of Higher Ed article about the fave playwright and poet -- still inspiring educators and gaming educators today!

For Business but applicable to education. After all we are selling. #gamemooc

This article is from 2005, but there is some interesting material reviewed. Of course, the article mentions Jim Gee. One part that I found interesting was where Jim Brazell, a consulting analyst at the Digital Media Collaboratory, basically says that the only way someone can make an effective simulation game is to understanding thoroughly that which is being simulated. Thus, creation of games has the "potential to lead to new knowledge and new ways to do things through emergent behavior." This is the first time I've seen such a clear description of how game design can be used to build knowledge.