Digital Delights - Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Gamification
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Gamification has become an increasingly important element within the training industry, one that can often mean the difference between success and failure. In recent years, looking critically at th... 
Chip Peters's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 8:41 AM
An excellent article - provides foundational insight into the trend sweeping the industry.
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ELT Sandbox is a website devoted to the use of computer games and gaming in general as a stimulus for learning in the language classroom. With more and more people investing time in the English...
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Instructional Designers have the ability to make awesome eLearning games, they just don't know it yet. Here are 10 simple eLearning game ideas that...
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Dora's Big World is filled with stickers, Explorer Stars and Tools, games, and more. Let's start exploring!
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September 27, 2013 5:56 PM
Build up your collection of virtual games and toys with vast amazing stickers, from which youngsters can learn while having amazing fun. Such a natural way to take in information, scooped for www.homeschoolsource.co.uk
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The apps below will help you make a fun cartoon version of yourself. You can even save the images and use them on your Twitter accounts, Facebook, incoming
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Higher ed gaming labs like Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC center are expanding gamification’s possibilities.
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National design competitions and penguin avatars are helping youth see success in math, coding and computational thinking.
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Get Futurama Head-in-a-Jar Creator on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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Texas 10-year-old Rhys uses Gamestar Mechanic to program and create worlds to play in, learning valuable skills in science, technology, engineering, and math...
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Republished from original post on Capterra blog by @rgogos Games create engagement – a necessity for any learning experience – however just how effective is gamification in improving learning outco...
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Playing video games is an insanely popular pastime for people of all ages, but particularly teenagers and young adults.
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
OVERVIEW Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Brave New World is the second expansion pack for Civilization V - the critically acclaimed 2010 PC Game of the Year. This new expansion provides enhanced depth and replayability through the introduction of international trade and a focus on culture and diplomacy. Your influence around the world will be impacted by creating Great Works, choosing an ideology for your people and proposing global resolutions in the World Congress. As you move through the ages of history you will make critical decisions that will impact your relationship with other civilizations. Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World also introduces nine new civilizations, eight new wonders, two new scenarios, four new gameplay systems and dozens of new units, buildings and improvements offering an expanded variety of ways to build the most powerful empire in the world. FEATURES New Culture Victory: Spread your culture across the globe, dominate all other cultures. Create masterpieces with Great Artists, Writers and Musicians that are placed in key buildings across your empire like Museums, Opera Houses, and even the Great Library. Use Archaeologists to investigate sites of ancient battles and city ruins for priceless cultural artifacts. Become the first civilization with a majority influence in all other civilizations to achieve a Culture Victory, becoming the envy of the world. New Policies and Ideologies: Enter the Industrial Age and choose the ideology of your people: Freedom, Order, or Autocracy. Each ideology grants access to increasingly powerful abilities, and serves the different victory conditions in unique ways. The choices you make will impact your relationships with other civilizations for the rest of the game. World Congress: The importance of diplomacy is intensified and city-state alliances are more important than ever. Change the diplomatic landscape through a new World Congress that votes on critical issues like implementing trade sanctions against rogue nations, limiting resource usage, designating host cities for the World Games, and the use of nuclear weapons. Game-changing resolutions, vote trading, intrigue and a new lead-in to the Diplomatic Victory ensures that the end of the game will be more dynamic than ever before. International Trade Routes: Build your cities into hubs of international trade by land and sea, creating great wealth and prosperity for your people, while also spreading religion, cultural influence, and science. The number of trade routes increases through the advancement of economics and technologies, the creation of wonders, and the unique abilities of your civilization. Will you connect to a closer city for a lower payoff and a safer route, choose a longer route with more risk for the bigger payoff, or perhaps point your trade route inward, sending vitally important food and production to the far corners of your own empire? New Civilizations, Units and Buildings: Nine new leaders and civilizations are introduced, including Casimir of Poland, each with their unique traits, units and buildings. New Wonders: This expansion set introduces eight new Wonders including the Parthenon, Broadway, the Globe Theater, and the Uffizi. Two New Scenarios: - American Civil War: Fight the "War Between the States" from either the Union or Confederate side as you focus on the critical Eastern theatre of operations between the capital cities of Richmond and Washington. - Scramble for Africa: The great colonial powers of the world are scrambling to explore the Dark Continent and extend their reach into its interior. Search for the great natural wonders of the heart of Africa as you explore a dynamically-generated continent each time you play.
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Augmented reality is not something limited to just Hollywood blockbusters though. There are a bunch of ways people are using augmented reality in education, believe it or not.
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Chip Peters's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 8:50 AM
Third installment of Karl Kapp's dive into Gamification - this one around mLearning - excellent insight from an industry thought leader - the series itself has some fantastic practical case studies, which I'm assuming will be part of his upcoming book!
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I am a firm believer that most games teach. However, not all games are explicitly designed to be learning games.
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Instructional Designers have the ability to make awesome eLearning games, they just don't know it yet. Here are 10 simple eLearning game ideas that...
Linda Haynes's curator insight,
October 9, 2013 4:44 PM
Here are some excellent ideas for developing eLearning Games. The templates linked at the end of the article make the process of getting started very easy!
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
“Informal learning takes different forms, even when channeled into a formal process such as an online cross-company social game. The OD group recommends gaining an initial grasp of user reaction and experience before launching on a massive scale.”
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Get Sketch&Cartoon Me-My Pencil Avatar Photo Filter att Tumblr,Pinterest,Fb,Ps&Omegle Free on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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In theaters May 10. From Baz Luhrmann, the director of Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, “The Great Gatsby” stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher.
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It's no secret that Educators and trainers have been flirting with virtually any solution that will alleviate the doldrum of yet another min
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Game-based learning scholar Kurt Squire explores how leveraging young people's interest in gaming could encourage greater youth community involvement and dee...
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Summer is over, and while I’m always sorry to see it go, fall in New England is an exciting time. Everyone hunkers back down to work and there’s a sense of renewal and possibility.
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Abstract:
Overall, pre and post program survey results partially support our hypothesis that student attitudes towards the range of practices in several categories of participant engagement are positively influenced by their experience in the program. Especially for practices representing the more Constructionist engagement categories, our pre and post-program self-report survey analysis using t-test statistics indicates increases in student motivation towards, and understanding of these practices as a result of participation. That is, their post-program motivation was greater than their pre-program motivation, indicating a measure of success in the program at meeting the stated learning objectives. For three other less-Constructionist but active technology-use categories (e.g., information seeking), the results were more varied with regard to statistically significant increases. Ceiling effects may have played a role in this; pre-survey means were higher for such practices than the more Constructionist ones. The motivational findings on their own appear to indicate the appeal of the workshop style of learning among a large enough group of participants to see statistical effects of change.