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Bootstrapping Our Way Across the Curriculum

BYOT - Game On! Panel

Have you ever watched the intensity of someone playing a video game? The level of concentration, focus and enjoyment is astounding. These educators wanted to bring that same deep concentration (flow), feeling of accomplishment (fiero) and fun to learning… Read More

Summer Games MOOC EduPunxers are now starting to focus on the design of the Summer 2013 Games MOOC. Come join us! It's a connectivism MOOC, so no .....it's not suppose to look like a replica of Coursera. It was designed using the connectivism learning theory, gaming guild culture and informed by the Gamer Disposition. The Summer Games MOOC is divided into two parts. Each part  is designed to be a standalone MOOC, so  you can sign up for one part or both. Part I will focus on exploring collaboration, cross-functional teams and multi-player game based learning. We will… Read More

    G.A.M.E. members giving a Thanksgiving Tour of World of Warcraft over Google Hangout Best individual blog Grid Jumper’s Blog Collaborative 3D Environments for Teaching and Learning http://gridjumper.net/ Best ed tech / resource sharing blog Grid Jumper’s Blog Collaborative 3D Environments for Teaching and Learning http://gridjumper.net/… Read More

This is entirely from the prospective of an EduPunx...so a bootstrapper looking at conference with people who have budgets. MOOCs The New York Times has dubbed this the “Year of the MOOC” http://nyti.ms/SYUfzq and that was readily apparent at the Educause. MOOCs were continually discussed. Massively Online Open Courses are currently divided into two categories which an emerging third and are described at The Many Manifestations of the MOOC http://bit.ly/SJGkdZ xMOOC is the term being used for the MOOCs that are coming out of the Ivy Leagues, Udacity (Stanford… Read More

Links and Resources from Games Based Learning MOOC from eLCC Game Based Learning MOOC twitter @ proximalzone flickr Game Based Learning MOOC group http://www.flickr.com/groups/gamesmooc/ Virtual Worlds and Games UnSymposium November 2 - 3, 2012  Read More

Zombies..... Ninjas…. And Pirates…. No it’s not the Apocalypse But, it will be disruptive There will be rogue teachers Games, Virtual vorlds MMORPGs and Machinima MOOCs, OOCs, Badges & Gamification Think of this disruption ….Play as Professional Development So come join for the Third Annual UnSymposium Friday November 2 & Saturday 3, 2012 The Virtual Worlds and Games UnSymposium in its third year is a grassroot community organized yearly event. The theme this year is disruption and we couldn’t think of a better way to pull that theme off than ninjas, zombies and pirates. Disruption in education in whatever shape or form has been a daily… Read More

We're having our weekly Game MOOC tweetchat #gamemooc on Wednesday at 9 pm ET/ 7 pm MT (Denver). The topic this week will be badges, achievements, awards and xp. The purpose of the tweetchat is to chat of course, maybe come to a consensus on when we use those terms and then maybe lead us into a bit of a bigger discussion. That would be this discussion... Last week at the wrap-up for Connected Educator month, there was a session on Connected Education and Badges. Chat Transcript only Since the mission of G.A.M.E.… Read More

There's been a series of games based learning lists that have come out over the last two weeks. Twitter Feeds for Educational Gaming http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/08/50-best-twitter-feeds-follow-educational-gaming/ Blogs about Game Based Learning 20 best learning blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukhe/archive/2012/08/20/the-20-best-blogs-about-game-based-learning.aspx… Read More

A Virtual Worlds, Games and Education Tour has been nominated for Best Educational Event in a Virtual World 2011-12."   It was 4 weeks of touring virtual worlds, making Machinima, playing World of Warcraft, peeking in at EVEOnline and pushing our intellect limits during bleeding edge week. This MOOC or OOC… Read More

“I Wanna be a Machinima Star” We are doing a parody of a parody. Based on the Tech Star video we are making “I Wanna Be a Machinima Star” There are a few different ways of participating if you are interested: 1) Send a 30 second video clip of your avatar or a… Read More