For my gamification workshops I created a Rezzly course, Gamification 101, to have teachers learn about the more popular gaming elements or game mechanics often used when gamifying a course. By learning about gamification taking a course using a gamification learning management system (LMS) made sense. That way teachers can experience the gaming elements while actually learning about them! Plus, using an LMS allows participants to work at their own pace and choose which elements they want to learn about first. They still get to learn from each other asynchronously because I have an Edmodo group for this Rezzly course and many of the quests (assignments) ask participants to respond on Edmodo to prompts while also engaging others in discourse.
Since participants don’t always get enough time (and by don’t always, I mean never) to complete the entire course, I copied all the Rezzly quests onto Google Docs and made them available for those who still wanted to learn more but didn’t get the chance. Below is a flowchart I made showing most of the course quests. I used Lucidchart to make the flowchart and then I used Thinglink to put links next to the quests to the actual Google Docs . Mouse over the graphic below and feel free to check out the Google Docs I made with brief descriptions of each of the gaming elements and links to sources for further exploration! (Click on the links to see the full Google Doc instead of just the partial preview.) Click here if you can’t access the links below.
Want to learn about more gaming elements? Read this blog post!
