Could you live without your Garbage Bin? The Zero Waste challenge is to not use your Garbage Bin anymore. No more plastic, only organic waste into a compost pile. The aim is to: Refuse, reduce, recover, reuse and recycle. I just read an article by a participant who explains her motivation using Octalysis and Hooked Frameworks. […]
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Today I reviewed a Gamification website called Skoolbo. I have heard my children talk about this and watched them play a little. They seemed to really like it – but had forgotten their passwords. I decided to try to login and set up a ‘Mega Mind Challenge’ which challenged me with: Can your class win
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Today I reviewed an exciting and fun way of delivering a unit on Ancient Civilizations. The main game elements used are Epic Meaning and Narrative. The student is placed in the role of Hero: ‘The world depends on you’. They must go back in time and research civilisations. The teacher Martha Bohnenberger is teaching
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The viral nature of learning and teaching Minecraft, or Loombands, lies in the surrounding ecosystems of sharing. In my classroom settings I have tried to recreate this. So far Google Communities has been a favourite of students. When we conducted a review of the many Portfolio systems I had tested with them over the years,
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This is a demonstration of many interactive features used in Adobe Captivate eLearning .
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I tried out an Articulate Storyline template from eLearning Brothers to create a quiz on the topic of Social Media. There were dozens of layers to sort through and although it was not hard to add my own content, it took a really long time and was quite repetitive. The sort of thing I would
This Treasure Map is a visual interface to navigate through 6 months of work in course in Digital Media. As skills are mastered in one area a new location is revealed. There are links to learning resources and short tests to unlock higher levels. It took me a few months to design this, so something
Over the last few years I have used Open Badges to improve motivation. My preferred platform is Moodle , but there are others like Openbadges.me available. The most successful project has been where the students were in charge of distributing Master or Mentor Badges. We made a video of the Award Ceremony which you can
Another great game from Jane McGonigal. So many ideas here to steal! Log in and start playing … I really like the positive vs shadow columns. It really gets group discussion going. In class I would do this with sticky notes. “Welcome to the year 2026, where strange and surprising things are happening .Anyone can
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In 2010, the World Bank sponsored a gamification project based in South Africa and involved people from 150 other countries. The link above to the lessons learned discussion offers many great ideas and observations that gamification designers can use. EVOKE was developed by the World Bank Institute, the learning and knowledge arm of the World Bank