For those of you who don’t know the story of Tom Sawyer white washing the fence you can read it here. In the story Mark
I recently read a post on Lifehacker about how a guy had “gamified” his life by setting up a points system to incentivize behavior. In
How do I gamify an activity? This post is a theoretical case study of how to gamify a simple workplace activity. We will be using
In the field of ESL/EFL it is common to see “board games” where the students roll a dice and then answer the questions in English
A presentation once asked the question, what is the difference between a game and an activity in an educational environment? The presenter went on to
Richard Bartle defined 4 types of players and how they enjoyed playing MUDs (precursors to MMORPGs). For a discussion of how these types map to
Sometimes ideas about how education should move forward can come from unlikely places. Even something as simple as a smart phone app can raise some interesting
It is impossible to win a game and at the same time to break one of its rules. – The Grasshopper One of the major arguments
When it comes to the classroom, the most common activities tend to either be puzzles or races. In both of these cases, the amount of
Richard Bartle defined 4 types of players and how they enjoyed playing MUDs (precursors to the modern MMORGS). For a discussion of how these types
One of the elements that is highly frustrating in MMORPGS is the grind. It can be summarized as the (seemingly) pointless activities that the players
A Multi-player online (MMO) game is very similar to a modern day classroom. They are both created environments with different ways to interact with material