Category: Gamification

Gamification includes using elements of board games, video games, and social games in the classroom to motivate and engage students in learning.

Jan 02

Gamified Classroom?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
January 2, 2013

Not so much actually. I started the year all hopeful to gamify my classes. After reading Lee Sheldon’s book, The Multiplayer Classroom this past summer I was all ready to jump in with all my classes. I had badges all prepared for my students to place on their blogs as they showed evidence of understanding …

Badges, blogs, Collaborative Classroom, Excitement, Expe, First Trimester, Having A Great Time, Hopeful, Independent Work, Lee Sheldon, Lot, Prodding, Profound Effect, Science, Vocabulary
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Oct 30

What’s a Startup Weekend?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Science, Tech Integration
October 30, 2012

The weekend of Oct 19 I got to participate in a Startup Weekend, specifically the Startup Weekend SeattleÂ EDU at the Evergreen School! From the About Section of the Startup website: “Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch …

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Oct 20

Getting More Girls Into STEM

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification, Science, Tech Integration
October 20, 2012

I’m participating in this year’s Seattle EDU Startup Weekend (follow at #SWSeaEDU) and I’ve joined a group working on a solution to get more girls into STEM by catching them early and getting them excited about learning programming basics. We need your help. Please answer a few questions to help validate our idea. What we’re …

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Jul 16

Gamifying My Classes

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification
July 16, 2012

I’m taking the leap and am going to try it out. I finished reading The Multiplayer Classroom by Lee Sheldon and I was able to start mapping out how I can gamify my classes. After two and half years of teaching completely gradeless I have found that I still haven’t managed to engage all my …

Autonomy, Contrary, Daily Basis, Experiences, Facebook, Half Years, Leap, Lee Sheldon, Lot Like, Number 1, Own Pace, Peer Pressure, Playing Games, Scho, Science, Science Labs, Science Lessons, Sheer Excitement, Survey, Task Behavior, Those Kids, Three Times, Transformation
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Jun 11

Alternate Reality Game

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Grades & HW, Science
June 11, 2012

This past Thursday Nicholas Provenzano hosted a Twitter chat at #NerdyChat on the topic of Gamification (see transcript here). Gamification is the idea of using the best of video gaming in the classroom. Why? Watch a kid play a video game. Video games hook the player and motivate the player to persevere through failure and …

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Feb 16

Avatars

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Gamification, Tech Integration
February 16, 2009

You can make an avatar like the one below with Portrait Illustrator. You don’t even need to set up an account with any of these, just create the picture and when it looks ready just drag it to your desktop and upload it (Windows users might need to right click on the picture and save …