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How to "Gamify" Your Class Website - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 5 views

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how to add game elements to your online syllabus in wordpress

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A conversation on TED.com: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogam... - 1 views

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Bryan Alexander on 18 Feb 11

That's a useful set of comments, esp. the critical ones.

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Example of teaching politics/history with a game - 1 views

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Nice instance.

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High Tea game - 1 views

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Interesting resource management game, for the British-Indian-Chinese opium trade.

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"This Game Sucks": How to Improve the Gamification of Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDU... - 6 views

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Bryan Alexander on 11 Feb 11

Very good to see. Are we at the early early early adopter phase of gamification in .edu?

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Orange Revolution game - 0 views

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A short sim of this bit in recent Ukrainian history. Mostly multiple choice decisions, with a violence meter.

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Headteacher told primary school children World War Three had broken out | Mail Online - 1 views

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Now *that* is teaching with impact!

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Games about games - 2 views

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Neat idea!

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Gaming with Parents - 1 views

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Gaming boosts learning, a meta-analysis - 1 views

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Could be handy.

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Airline Manager game - 0 views

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I would love to play this.

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Simulation to predict insurgencies - 0 views

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Learning from a WWII game - 2 views

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Interesting story of trying hard to revise some history, and failing.

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Gaming our Global Tragedies | Admin Toolbox - 0 views

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Postings of a Troubled Mind - WSJ.com - 2 views

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At times, Mr. Loughner seemed to be reaching out to fellow gamers for help and advice, albeit in a disturbing way. Sometimes they offered it, such as giving him pointers about job hunting. At other times, his postings seemed so outrageous that the gamers mocked or ignored him. The online postings, written using pseudonyms, were shared with the Journal by a person who had access to them. Two fellow gamers who participated in the online forums say the author was the accused gunman, and some of the postings discuss incidents from Mr. Loughner's life that others have corroborated.
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Ed Webb on 12 Jan 11

The chat forums associated with games could be mines of information for the right research project. I hope they rarely become newsworthy in this way.

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Bryan Alexander on 13 Jan 11

Good point. Gaming discussion has grown into a wide field for all kinds of research. I'm waiting for "gaming made him do it" arguments to appear.

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Online Game Teaches Citation Skills - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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It uses Zotero

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Moonbase Alpha Game.com : NASA SERIOUS GAME SIMULATION | Real-Time 3D Space Visualization - 2 views

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YouTube - BBC Panorama: ADDICTED TO GAMES? - Part 1 of 2 - 2 views

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See Part 2 also

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Brett Boessen on 08 Dec 10

Goodness. Love how they use WoW's own music against it...game addiction jujitsu!

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Bryan Alexander on 15 Dec 10

I gather that Panorama has gone downhill. And did have some fun poking at this on Infocult.

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FYE: Media Mix - Home - 0 views

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James Schirmer's course site (the bits not on Blackborg)

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World of Warcraft Invades Language Arts Class - 2 views

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Gaming and the liberal arts

How to "Gamify" Your Class Website - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 5 views

A conversation on TED.com: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogam... - 1 views

Example of teaching politics/history with a game - 1 views

High Tea game - 1 views

"This Game Sucks": How to Improve the Gamification of Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDU... - 6 views

Orange Revolution game - 0 views

Headteacher told primary school children World War Three had broken out | Mail Online - 1 views

Games about games - 2 views

Gaming with Parents - 1 views

Gaming boosts learning, a meta-analysis - 1 views

Airline Manager game - 0 views

Simulation to predict insurgencies - 0 views

Learning from a WWII game - 2 views

Gaming our Global Tragedies | Admin Toolbox - 0 views

Postings of a Troubled Mind - WSJ.com - 2 views

Online Game Teaches Citation Skills - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

Moonbase Alpha Game.com : NASA SERIOUS GAME SIMULATION | Real-Time 3D Space Visualization - 2 views

YouTube - BBC Panorama: ADDICTED TO GAMES? - Part 1 of 2 - 2 views

FYE: Media Mix - Home - 0 views

World of Warcraft Invades Language Arts Class - 2 views

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