-
Recent Posts
- Three Part Series on Story Structure 2020/09/11
- Nothing Went as Planned, and Everything Will Be Okay: A(nother) 2020 Experience 2020/09/09
- How to REALLY be Prepared for the 2020-2021 School Year 2020/08/17
- Teacher to Teacher: A Letter to a Naively Racist and Classist Younger Me 2020/08/13
- The Bomb, Duck-and-Cover Drills, and You (today, right now) 2020/08/11
- A Two-Track-Option Approach to Teaching and Learning 2020/07/20
- …on what is called “deep learning” 2020/06/24
Categories
Steve’s Twitter Handle
- Made great time! 920 miles for total driving this trip. https://t.co/EU2EsID1WX 41 minutes ago
- On the road again... we needed this trip. https://t.co/wau5EwMFFx 5 hours ago
- #games and #ForeignPolicy - my kind of combination! Article about a recent game from #Rand w what looks like playab… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- Hiking near Durango today https://t.co/fIeEKrHLRJ 22 hours ago
- I didn’t know this actor, but I listened to this pod episode yesterday. It would behoove all to listen to understan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
Friends' Websites
Tag Archives: gamifying
Teaching Memo: Support from Our Institutions / Districts
Support from those whose job it is to support our work is perhaps the single make-or-break factor that has the biggest impact on a teacher’s effectiveness. That’s not really a thought I’m willing to defend – it just seems to … Continue reading →
Teaching Memo: Gamification, Making Items
A quick post here about making items for your game. When a game creator builds a game, it’s often by picking a theme and then by choosing some mechanics to fill out the game and make it playable. (See my … Continue reading →
Posted in Games and Gamification, Teaching Memos
|
Tagged classroom game, classroom management, engagement, game creation, game development, game engineering, game items, gameful learning, gameful thinking, games, gamification, gamify, gamifying, gamifying school, items, mtg, mtgcardsmith, student bonuses, student choice, student engagement, Teaching
|
Leave a comment
Presentation Plan: Utah Council for the Social Studies – Nov. 2, 2019
If you’re teacher in Utah, or if you just so happen to be visiting Utah in early November, I would love to meet with you and talk gamification. I’m gamifying my course again this year, and the game is in … Continue reading →
Games and Game Elements & Mechanics in the Classroom: A Simple Taxonomy
When I began teaching in the Spring of 2008, I was teaching adults in a college setting, and I acted under the assumption that students were just like me – they’d like what I liked, learn how I learned, and … Continue reading →
Posted in Education, Games and Gamification, Teaching Memos
|
Tagged classroom, game-based learning, gameful learning, games, gamification, gamify, gamifying, gaming, GBL, learning, motivation, pedagogical strategies, pedagogy, student agency, student choice, student-centered learning, Teaching, teaching strategies
|
3 Comments
Student Feedback at Two Weeks Gamifying (What They Fear)
I have a tendency toward writing a lot of words, so I’ve decided that in hopes of also appealing to people who want to cut straight to the chase, any classroom-ready bits of practical advice will always be in bold … Continue reading →
Steve Capone