Game Based Learning Research

This is fantastic if you only can watch one video this should be it.

Alex Reeve's great site for practical guide.

JZapper has some good information for us on Learning in Corporate Space

Ah really a good article on badges

Good article regarding Foursquare use of badges.

#gamemooc

This is the game I mentioned in my "Looking at Shivtr" thread. You can download the game from there (it's free) and it is also availible on Steam if you prefer that platform.

List of entries with additional links in EDUCATION.

ClassBadges is a new service that aims to help teachers and students track their achievements big and small. Using ClassBadges teachers create goals for their students. When students reach their goals teachers assign a badge to them to keep in their student profiles.

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

Does show how emotion is part of gaming.

#gamemooc

"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.

Gabe Zicherman, nice 44 slide show from his corporation.

This is a nice site where they did look at emotions in a game, this isn't seriously scientific but it does show what players get out of games.

Scroll down (left side) there is a 'How Taboo are YOU?" game that mixes the content from the National Geographic program and FACEBOOK, which you can share results with friends, make public or keep private.

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!

Nice site does have downloadable templates and good links

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

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.