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"It's a cooperative team survival game. Players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of galaxy. The missions last just 10 real-time minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only task the players have is to protect their ship. On 2 CDs (or Scenario cards if you don't have a CD player available) are ten minute long soundtracks that represent central computer announcements about the presence of various threats. These vary from space battleships and interceptors to different interstellar monsters and abominations, asteroids or even intruders and malfunctions on the spaceship. Players have to agree who will take care of which task and coordinate their actions (moving around the ship, firing weapons, distributing energy, using battlebots to deal with intruders, launching guided missiles, etc.) in real time to defend the ship. Only a well-working team can survive 10 minutes and make the jump back to safety."

You can use real pumpkin, get pie pumpkins (small ones) and cut into chunks to cook, can use microwave. It is time for these and a caution they mean baking POWDER not baking soda (baking soda leaves such an after taste the dogs even didn't want them) Trust the "Grasshopper98" on this!

If all we do is study and work, we need to have a little FUN and FLOW in our own lives, the FIERO comes from seeing them come out of the oven!

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

Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President, XEODesign presents a very nice video about what makes games fun and there is a full transcript, she has several videos online

Fun video regarding dogs and their multiplying in Minecraft. You also get to look around at one of my worlds in the game. This is more fun than anything. This really shows how you get involved in the game and what is happening. I was laughing when I said, "they like to go outside." Really? Ha, they are pixels!

Glad to see so many of you on the list. If you running out of game possibilities or want to expore more, here is a list of 47 FREE games available through STEAM, there is no cost to have an account, but whatever you do don't lose your STEAM password, it is very difficult to get it back... trust the "grasshopper98" on this. They have quite a few games I am looking at for possible use in my classroom. Some can be played within STEAM and others need a free-download to play, but may need strong graphics, ram memory and high-speed internet, others will work just fine within STEAM. No I haven't played them all. [Wink] So many games so little time.

This is Grasshopper98 in the first encounter in the new Magic the Gathering online game powered by Steam, and though you might like to see the fun, flow and fiero.

This is an older and younger player at FRCC on one of our Table Top Game Club, and this is three player, where he says "Kill a Jace" it is to kill a Planeswalker, not something taken lightly but what he is given in exchange basically makes him unbeatable. If you don't stage these plays, then it is just the real reality of chatter, play, nothing happening, or else.

Nice site does have downloadable templates and good links

"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.

The difference between Gamification, Sims and Serious Games explained.

RSA Animation about Motivation and Drive - I found this video from Neville's Journal (http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com/journals/11707) but the RSA Animate always helps me understand it better. Most of this is VERY business oriented, but there are some interesting nuggets for us edu-nerds!

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.

AMAZING I CAN'T WAIT, a mix of reality and alternate reality, it is of course the evolution of games. ! Pac-Man on Steroids. Count me in, the answer to the complaint that all MMORPGers do is sit at a computer! I am anxious for this game to launch. I would be a player.

November 24 and 25, 2012 - MINECON! Minecraft and Mojang Conference on Live Stream! Notch will be on live stream. ;)

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

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

This goes back to where I live, Higher Ed, and addresses some of the basic steps in introducing a games based curriculum. It's a little bit more of an overview than I'd like, but some of the content is solid.

An Adventure + Strategy Game that is very easy to play (master it quickly). Good for teaching logic, classification and division writing, existentialism