This site was developed for teachers who make resources and sell direct to other teachers. You can download 1000s of free resources, but also buy at reasonable prices. Great for your toolbelt.
Amazing, my mum just emailed this link to me and I was about to put it on diigo. Glad to see it already made it here :) Lots of free resources and ideas.
Very interesting. After watching the you tube clip on game layer I can see how much I am being manipulated. I can also see that it is inevitable. I just shopped at coles and got my 10% my items reward mnnnn oh well. Coles are very clever players in the marketing world of gaming. I can also see a strong link to extrinsic rewards and Skinners behaviourism.
The question of motivation - intrinsic versus extrinsic - is often brought up around gamification and its relative badges. There is some interesting work moving discussion of motivation beyond this dualism. It may be more complex.
I've used this for marketing before, and thought it may help some time poor students- write a few blogs on the weekend, and spread them out to be automatically sent by hootsuite when you choose. Could be very handy! Would work in a classroom, if you knew every Wednesday was sports day, and your students were on twitter, have an automated tweet go out every Tuesday night to remind them to wear sports uniform/bring sports equipment. Great opportunities to be connected without having to remember regularly!
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