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Comment on Good Questions for Gamification by Bryan Alexander
Excellent pushback! Let’s see. 1. We should be careful of conflating commodification of education w/gamification. In education much of the former happens w/o the latter. Not all, but still. 2. Game...
View ArticleComment on Good Questions for Gamification by bboessen
I think we *are* in agreement, actually, at least on those two points. I guess I’m just wary of gamification now that it has become something of a marketing concept — I love to read McGonigal talk...
View ArticleComment on New Social Tools in Portal 2 by Bryan Alexander
Must… get… to play… this game…
View ArticleComment on New Social Tools in Portal 2 by bboessen
We played it for our Friday play session last week, and I gotta say, it’s pretty sweet. We mostly did the single player campaign in class, but we did get to try a little split-screen co-op mode. I’m...
View ArticleComment on Back from the Wilderness by Bryan Alexander
essay or story… depends on the rhetorical situation, and what you’re trying to accomplish. Perhaps focus on creativity: are you trying to elicit or corral it?
View ArticleComment on Back from the Wilderness by bboessen
Good point — at some level the distinction is more epistemological than ontological, as there are lots of similarities between the two. So when to use one or the other can require strategic judgment....
View ArticleComment on Back from the Wilderness by Bryan Alexander
I wonder how far student discussion can go with this. The distinctions can ascend up the theory scale pretty quickly.
View ArticleComment on Back from the Wilderness by bboessen
I’m about to post a longer chunk on this, linking it to what I’m doing in my Digital Video Production course. Stay tuned.
View ArticleComment on Don’t Forget About Façade by Bryan Alexander
Good point. I rarely hear the game discussed these days.
View ArticleComment on Getting Fired Up by Suzanne
I’m not a creator of the 3D GameLab system, just an early adoptor (though I did get the okay from one of the creators to create the THATCamp Games group. I’m glad you are having fun exploring it. I’m...
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