As many of you know, I have created a year-long, gamified storyline for my World History course. Students entered the Realm months ago. Since then, we have been fighting battles in Egypt, taking Imperial...
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Little over a year ago I started to work on my gamified classroom. When I started, I had little idea of what that word even ment. I spent a ton of time finding tools, apps, and really anything that help make...
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Each year, as teachers, we begin the school year with a new crop of students. Over the summer, we all thought long and hard about our classrooms. We carefully designed lessons, units, and grading policies to...
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The Beginning… My first full year of gamification couldn’t go quietly into the night; it needed to go out with a bang. Survivor Renaissance was that big bang! Based on the show, students...
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Gamification for Teachers by Teachers community G+ Community Session Notes Our first meeting of teachers talking shop about gamification. The hope is for these PD discussions to help us all develop...
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As a World History teacher I have always found the videos of battles hard to swallow – not because they are violent, but because they are ridiculous. The documentary typically zooms in on two or four...
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Badges During the second quarter of using Gamification, I introduced a twist to the rules of the game. For a student to have even the possibility of earning an “A” within the course, he or she...
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Grading System with XP???? At this point it is important to discuss how grading works in my course. Students’ day-to-day course work of reading and understanding the material tends to get them little to no...
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If you have been following me on my blog or twitter, you already know my excitement about Game Based Learning or Gamification. This idea of using game principles in class to direct and motivate students shows...
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The Realm of Nobles is the name for my sixth grade World History course. The back-story that is unfolding for the students is that the Realm’s king has died, and each house is striving for the throne. Each...
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