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The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game
Pages 93 - 184
Synchronous Activity
Week 2 Hangout Discussion
Wednesday, April 1 at 8 pm ET
https://www.youtube.com/gamesmooc
After the Hangout, we'll post any links to resources discussed and we'll also post the discussion questions here and in the Google + Community.
Discussion Questions
(Still working on this a little - the official ones will be announced during the Wed hangout.)
What type of experience design are using or are you looking at?
This can include game play. It would also include solo play v. group play. Take a look at page 27 and also 40-43 on peer review and the syllabus pages 64- 65.
Will your students be soloists or part of a guild?
Awarding XP for student work seems like an extrinsic reward. What aspects of Sheldon's Multiplayer Classroom create opportunities for intrinsic rewards?
More Gamification Platforms...
Supplemental Resources
Gaming Style Quizzes
Brain Hex http://survey.ihobo.com/BrainHex/
Bartle’s Test of Game Psychology http://www.gamerdna.com/quizzes/bartle-test-of-gamer-psychology
Meta-synthesis of player typologies http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/12168.40312.pdf
Guild Examples
Student Guilds (K-12)
WoW in School template for write a guild mission statement
Hardcore Guilds
The Syndicate's 14 Years of Gaming
Your facilitators' guild (extremely optional)
Inevitable Betrayal website
Inevitable Betrayal Flickr group (shown below)
Gaming Emotional States
Fun, Flow and Fiero
Fun, Flow and Fiero video from Games MOOC (12:21 min)
Go ahead and second screen this one!
Fun
Seymour Papert's Hard Fun http://www.papert.org/articles/HardFun.html
Seymour Papert's Does Easy Do It? Children Games and Learning
http://www.papert.org/articles/Doeseasydoit.html
Flow
Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi TED Talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en
Nakamura, J, & Csikzentmihalyi, M.
The Concept of Flow (there is a book and additional papers but this was accessible)
http://myweb.stedwards.edu/michaelo/2349/paper1/ConceptOfFlow.pdf
Slides from a 2007 presentation on flow by Mihalyi Csikzentmihalyi
http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/csikszentmihalyipowerpoint.pdf
Interesting business or performance improvement take on Flow
Flow quiz available. I did not give my best email. You will have to extrapolate and it sounds a bit like a sales pitch but think what games, experiences or play get our students into a flow state? Also much like people's fiero being different think about people's flow state, that can also be a different.
http://www.flowgenomeproject.co/#
Fiero
Gamification User Types and 4 Keys to Fun
http://www.gamified.uk/2013/06/05/gamification-user-types-and-the-4-keys-2-fun/
Why We Play Games: Four Keys to More Emotion Without Story
http://xeodesign.com/xeodesign_whyweplaygames.pdf
And last but not least The Hobbit -Battle of the Five Armies - To Which Army Do You Belong?
It is asking your value system but a bit about how you get your flow and fiero.
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