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Mar 13

Gamification Alternative to Grading?

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification, Grades & HW
March 13, 2013

One thing that’s really cool about Twitter is that you’re allowed to be nosey. People know that anyone who follows them can read what they’re tweeting. Now that may be obvious to everyone but I tend to by shy even online. I know, it’s weird to me too. It’s way easier for me to lurk …

Alternate Forms, Badges, Blog, Cards, Conversations, Feedback, Gamer, Joe Bower, Leap, Love, Nosey People, Parents, Report Cards, Shyness, Snippet, Twitter, Weird, Work Samples
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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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Gamification

By Alfonso Gonzalez

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 …

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Grades & HW

By Alfonso Gonzalez

Links to my blogs on grading and homework. Do Grades Help or Hinder Learning? Here’s where it all started for me. In March of 2010 I considered for the first time in my 19 year teaching career to change my grading policy freeing myself of the shackles of 20th century, factory-model, reward-and-punish sorting that is …