03
Jul
2014

Gaming and Education: Resources

categories: Digital literacy, gaming, hacker

Gaming Learning Society
https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/

Report from the intersection of Games, Learning, and Society
http://remakelearning.org/blog/2014/06/19/games-learning-society-recap/
Games, Learning and Society conference in Madison, Wisconsin. practical ideas and arguments from GLS to help you get through the roadblocks that stand between you and learning or teaching through games.

keywords: gamification + library in Twitter:
Readers Save Legacy Library Content by Crowdsourcing Metadata Games
http://www.gamification.co/2014/05/12/readers-save-legacy-content-by-crowdsourcing-metadata-games/What is Gamification and Why Use It in Teaching?
http://ii.library.jhu.edu/2014/05/13/what-is-gamification-and-why-use-it-in-teaching/What Does the Next-Generation School Library Look Like?
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/what-does-the-next-generation-school-library-look-like/
The library now also has reading lounge areas with comfortable modular seating, as well as tables with chairs and stools that students are free to move around; two music studios; a HackerSpace (with high-tech equipment such as a microscope, 3D printer, gaming hardware and software, and a green screen for filming) and a Maker Space that also houses a 3D printer and serves as a “hands-on” craft room where old technology can be disassembled and re-configured with other materials. In short, the Monticello Library Media Center has become a “Learning Commons.”

following now @valibrarian because of MineCraft http://t.co/RnwW7ahOK2
Minecraft and the library: http://blogs.curtin.edu.au/gamification/news/minecraft-and-the-library/

Library Quest Wrap-Up and Post-Game Assessment
https://babeltech.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/library-quest-wrap-up-and-post-game-assessment/

If you build it …? One campus’ firsthand account of gamification in the academic library
http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/4/208.full
Straight from CRL News
SCVNGR as a platform was attractive to us for several reasons, including UCSD’s experience. First, it incorporated gaming into students’ experience of the library, which has been widely explored and recommended as a way to engage library patrons.2,3 Second, it would enable us to connect with students early in the year without needing to commit personnel to lengthy tours and other scheduled services during a busy time.

Pls consider former IMS blog entries. Keyword: “game”:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=game

 

8 Comments on Gaming and Education: Resources

  1. Plamen Miltenoff
    July 3, 2014 at 6:04 pm (10 years ago)

    Games Can Advance Education: A Conversation With James Paul Gee
    http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/games-can-advance-education-a-conversation-with-james-paul-gee/
    The notion of “New Literacies” expands the conception of literacy beyond books and reading to include visual symbols and other types of representation made possible through, among other things, current digital technologies.
    Games and other related technologies—together of course with talk and texts—have the potential to radically change the paradigm and unless we do change the paradigm they will just be co-opted by the current grammar of schooling.
    What worries me is the way in which we in the United States have enshrined human stupidity. In an age where interacting complex systems are killing us with the consequences of greed and stupidity, we regularly disdain evidence and honor ideology. Lots of Americans believe the Earth is about 6000 years old, do not believe in evolution, and think that Christianity was about wealth and a form of social Darwinism.
    We need collective intelligence where we view humans, in mind and body, as plug and play devices that get smart only when they are plugged into good tools, good people, and good practices in the service of pooling knowledge and diversity to make the world a better place. Games like Foldit or things like Galaxy Zoo are already interesting beginnings here. Digital and social media can niche our silos into pure echo chambers or they can create worlds of new experiences and possibilities.
    Don’t trust people in suits who don’t game.

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  2. Plamen
    November 20, 2014 at 4:13 pm (10 years ago)

    From: Lori Bell <lbell927@yahoo via [mailto:dmarc_fix@ala.org]
    Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:14 AM
    To: lita-l@lists.ala.org
    Subject: [lita-l] any libraries working with Unity 3d

    Is anyone out there working with Unity 3d to provide services or create games or anything else for library users? Thanks, Lori

    http://unity3d.com/

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  5. Plamen Miltenoff
    January 10, 2016 at 1:03 am (9 years ago)

    From: Minter, Tamatha A.
    Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 1:36 PM
    To: Miltenoff, Plamen
    Subject: Articulate Storyline

    Plamen,

    Thanks for the gamification talk this week. Here is a link for the authoring software I mentioned. This isn’t strictly for game creation, but online learning in general with lots of easy ways to create games and interactions. https://www.articulate.com/products/storyline-why.php

    They also have a very active learning community built around the product, as well as lots of free templates and media, even if you don’t use the software. The community represents a good example of social learning, and I’ve learned how to use the software entirely from the community and online tutorials. Here is a link to one of their weekly challenges that was for gamification examples https://community.articulate.com/articles/gamification-examples-elearning.

    Tamatha (Tama) Minter
    State Program Administrator
    MN Highway Safety & Research Center | St. Cloud State University
    Phone: 1.888.234.1294
    E-mail: taminter@stcloudstate.edu

    http://www.mnsafetycenter.org
    https://www.facebook.com/MHSRC

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  6. Plamen Miltenoff
    February 3, 2016 at 11:56 pm (9 years ago)

    Dear Educator:

    I am a doctoral student at Nova Southeastern University in the Ed.D. program, with a concentration in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. My dissertation focuses on the perceptions of educators regarding games and game-based learning for educational use in higher education.

    I would like to invite you to participate in the Educator Perceptions of Game-based Learning Survey as part of my doctoral research. Additionally, please feel free to forward this survey invitation to your colleagues and professional contacts. I would like to obtain broad representation among educators in higher education and would greatly appreciate your help in disseminating this invitation to a greater number of potential participants.

    The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. All survey submissions are anonymous. If you agree to participate, you may access this anonymous online survey at the following link.

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5XMR75V

    This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at Nova Southeastern University. If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact me at wh291@nova.edu.

    Thank you.

    Respectfully,

    Wilma Hodges
    Doctoral Student
    Instructional Technology and Distance Education
    Nova Southeastern University

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