Perhaps it’s the word ‘drill’ that fuels my dislike of grammar drills, as it conjures up in my mind visits to the dentist. Often painful, repetitive and while good for us, definitely not fun. In many regards, this also describes grammar drills in language acquisition. In psychological terms it is using a brute force method […]
What is Gamification?
Gamification is a relatively new term. I believe it was coined by the Conundra consulting company in 2003. Given its relative newness, people are still trying to define what gamification is and, more importantly, what it is not. Karl M. Kapp, in his book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, defines gamification as “using game based […]
Fudge and my Discovery of Rubrics
I have never been particularly good at maths. This, sadly, has limited some of my enjoyment of roleplaying games. I was sick of “Roll Playing” with the constant modifiers and THAC0s etc. So, I started looking around for another system to use in my games. Searching on the Internet brought me to Fudge, a generic […]