This section includes my learning and attempts at gamification AND game-based learning (GBL). I’ve been a gamer since first playing pong at my neighbor’s house when I was seven and I’ve always wondered how to bring that level of engagement, fun, and learning into my classroom. So this is where I’ll be placing links of my journey into gamifying my classroom.
Gamification vs Game-Based Learning (My understanding of the difference between the two terms.)
GBL and Gamification People to Follow
Alternate Reality Game (my first blog post on the topic of gamification)
Gamifying My Classroom (my plan for making the classwork kids do in my classes more like gaming than school work)
Beginning of Year (reflections on how I started the 2012-13 school year and setting up a gaming classroom)
Gamified Classroom? (reflections after a trimester of trying to gamify my classes)
When is Extrinsic Motivation Okay? (My thoughts on using rewards with regards to game-based learning.)
Gamification Alternative to Grading? (My thoughts after a Twitter conversation on badges.)
Gamifying Take 2 (My reflections on my first attempt at Games-Based Learning and plans for next year (2013-14.)
Planning for the Fall Already (More on my plans for the new school year this fall.)
My 6th grade Plan (Got my layout for the 2013-14 year for 6th grade done.)
My 8th grade Plan (Got my layout for the 2013-14 year for 8th grade done.)
Characteristics of GBL (What I’ve been learning about Game-Based Learning)
Make Lessons Attractive (More to consider when turning lessons into quests.)
Rewards and Gaming (Things to think about when doling out rewards in gamified classrooms.)
Elements that Make Games Motivating (A Glog I made to share the elements of motivation.)
Whole Class vs Individual vs Small Group (Offering students choice yet keep a scope and sequence. The balance.)
Badges, Do We Need Them? (More on badges, achievements (rewards) in the gamified classroom.)
Game Addiction (My experience with game addiction.)
Machinima (What it is. Can we use it in the classroom? Yeah!)
Almost Ready for Fall (I’ve got my 6th and 8th grade plans on 3D GameLab and am ready to go!)
Gamification Resources (Slides from a presentation I gave for #RSCON4 on my gamification attempts.)
Gamified Science Courses (How 3D GameLab has helped me gamify my Science classes. It’s a pretty cool tool.)
Gaming and Motivation (An example of how gaming changed my life.)
Why Game? (Why do people like games? My thoughts.)
1st Semester Assessment (Assessing the first semester in ROLE classes and using 3D GameLab.)
WoW in Science (My use of World of Warcraft in Science class!)
Day 1 WoW in Science (Our first day playing WoW in Science class!)
Day 2 WoW in Science
Day 3 WoW in Science
Day 4 WoW in Science
Day 5 WoW in Science
Day 6 WoW in Science
Days 7, 8, and 9 WoW in Science
Days 10, 11, 12, 13 WoW in Science
#GBL with WoW (final reflection)
Classdojo or Classcraft (two easy ways to introduce some gamification into your classroom)
3D GameLab and/or Classcraft??? (making a choice to use both or one or the other)
Hard Decisions (I made the choice between 3D GameLab and Classcraft)
Am I a Hypocrite? (Awards vs Badges and XP)
PBIS and Rewards (Follow-Up Blog to Am I a Hypocrite)
Star Trek Choose Your Own Adventure Class Story
The Story Continues…
Next Episode
Following an Energy Trail
Rule Out the Klingons?
Away Team
Mid-Season Finale
Averting War
Season Finale!
Second Attempt at Using WoWinSchools with my Students:
Literacy with WoW
1st Quarter WoW
1st Quarter WoW Complete
WoW Dancing
Game-Based Learning
My GBL and Gamification NCCE Notes
Presenting at WSTA 2015 (I did a Gamification presentation at a Science Conference!)
Presenting at NCCE 2016 (I also shared my Gamification presentation at this year’s NCCE!)
Other Reasons to Gamify (Infographic)
School as a Game (A post about gamification – the basics)
World of Warcraft Interview (A blog post interview by Classcraft about my using WoW in Schools!)
Playing the Game of School (I am now using Classcraft AND 3D GameLab! This post shows how.)
GBL and Gamification People to Follow (Here are people whose blogs I read regularly.)
Gamification Elements (Sharing the elements that I have on my Rezzly Gamification 101 Course.)
Gamification Grading – XP (How to grade in a gamified classroom. Well, some ideas anyway.)
Classcraft Finally Beat Rezzly (I finally made the decision to stop using Rezzly, here’s why.)
Upping My Game (Looking to add more of a Star Trek game-like feel to my course as I level up my own gamification.)
Gaming vs Reading (My thoughts on playing games way more than I read books.)
Quest-Based Learning (How I do QBL using Classcraft and how I want to improve it!)
eSports and Minecraft Bring Kids in the UK Together with Kids in Chimacum, WA! (Our Chimacum 6th graders got to play some Minecraft games with kids from Guildford, Surrey, UK!)
Esports with Minecraft (How I started a Minecraft eSports Club for my 6th graders.)
Esports with Minecraft, Getting Started (Part 2 of what I did to get the Minecraft eSports Club started.)
Gamification Update (Update on my progress with Gamification in my Science classes.)
Game-Based Learning Planning #GBL (Update on how I’m doing with incorporating games to promote student learning.)
Broadcasting Esports Games (What I’ve learned about having kids broadcast our esports gaming sessions.)
Gamification of Online Teaching (Using Classcraft to gamify online teaching.)
Gamified Science (Ways I gamify my 6th grade Science course.)
Esports Thriving (Even fully remote, or maybe because it’s fully remote, our esports program is doing well.)
Grants and Prizes (Even during a pandemic, there are still ways to get money and purchase cool stuff.)
2021 MLK Day Minecraft March on the Capitol (An amazing virtual experience in Minecraft!)
One Way to Run an Esports Program (This is how I run my remote esports program, or at least how I did it this year.)
Fortnite in Science Class? (Yes! Here’s a great way to use a popular virtual world to have kids do Science!)
Minecraft Education Edition Brings Esports to EVERYONE! (Here are some brand new worlds in Education Edition worth bringing into your classroom.)
Washington DC Minecraft Tour (Not just DC but a tour of a DC filled with civil rights leaders from the famous March and Speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr!)
How to start the 2021-22 School Year? (I start with gamification!)
Sustainability Development in Minecraft (This year’s Minecraft Edu’s Global Build challenge is awesome!)
Minecraft Education Edition’s Building Competitions (The new esports worlds are great for teaching ANY subject area and for most ages!)
Seriously Facebook, Er, Meta?!? (The problems with trying to create Facebooks accounts for multiple Oculus Quest 2’s for school use.)
Building for Hours! (When kids are working on Minecraft, they can build for hours!)
Serious Play Conference (I got to talk about my Esports program for this conference!)
Gamification in EdTech Conferences (How NCCE and ISTE gamified their conferences.)
Reflecting on 21-22 (My reflections on the school year.)
Chimacum Esports Program Explained (My slides and recording of the talk I gave for the Serious Play Conference)
Coding in Minecraft (An amazing resource for using Minecraft Education Edition to teach coding.)
Senate Committee Session on Gamification (I was invited to a panel of speakers to present to the WA state education Senate Committee on the topic of gamification in our schools!)
Intro to Gamification and Game-Based Learning (GBL) Podcast (A podcast my co-presenter and friend Tammie and I were invited to speak on!)
