Games Based Learning MOOC

Hello There!This is your introduction. Every hero needs a quest to begin the journey and inspire them when they are in the grips of grinding. So our question for you is:What is your Quest? or tell us why you have decided to join us in the explorat...

From Jane McGonigal in the TED Talk Games Can Change The World tells us games provide1) Urgent Optimism2) Social Fabric3) Blissful Productivity4) Epic MeaningWhat do you think?

We'll also being looking at EVE Online as a possible MMORPG for higher ed students. On Saturday, June 15 at 11 am MT, we 'll be livestreaming a tour with Stephen Getter from the rgGameMOOC. So please let us know if you have every played it and you...

If you and/or students have played GWII, please share the experience with us. We'll be looking at GWII as a possible MMORPG for the classroom. On Tuesday, June 11th, Lucas Gillispie of WoWinSchool/MMO in School will be with us for Games MOOC Googl...

Please let us know if you or your students are playing Minecraft in or out of the classroom.And if you have pictures, please add them the Games MOOC Flickr community.

Do you or your students play World of Warcraft, please tell us about it.We are using it in this session of the Games MOOC as example of a sword and board MMORPG. So we are especially interested in any discussion of you using in the classroom.And i...

Are you currently or have you ever played a multi-player game or MMORPG? Which one? What learning if any did you see happening in it?Are your students currently playing any multi-player or MMORPG either in or out of the classroom?

Hello There!This is your introduction. Every hero needs a quest to begin the journey and inspire them when they are in the grips of grinding. So our question for you is:What is your Quest? or tell us why you have decided to join us in the explorat...

Passing this along, especially since some of our guildees already have their write-ups done!ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) is looking for educators to submit their one or two favorite apps and a few words about. Sorry no ...

Please post any Maker resources you are all ready using or any Maker information, articles, videos and sites that you would like to share and discuss!

How are you currently doing maker assignments or clubs at your school? Or do you have any ideas of what you'd like to do?

This is the question being asked by ISTE's Learning and Leading with Technology magazine. The saga over the L.A. Schools’ iPad program has provided a roller-coaster overview of some of the new challenges facing schools in the digital age: In June,...

This is a discussion that we'll continue through the six weeks. Please report on any Hackathons, Hack Fest, Game Jams in your areas. Your quest if you aren't participating is to observe, take pictures and video and report back!

So what are the essentials of quest based learning? Is it just gamification or more than that?

This will be one of the objectives for the Minecraft and More ..UnSymposium.Let's brainstorm a Hackathon. Feel free to discuss in the forum or add to the google document. http://bit.ly/1c9rypC

What would a 5 - 10 white paper for Minecraft look like? We'd like to have this ready for distribution for the 2014 ISTE Conference.

What would need to go into an one page paper for teachers to give their administrators? We'll start discussing this at the Minecraft and More Unsymposium and crowdsource a Google Doc on it. We'd like to have it ready for the 2014 ISTE conference.

Hello all,I've always been a gamer playing pretty much anything I could access. Growing up I played a lot of games: card games, board games, D&D, organized and intramural sports, and worshiped at the altars / consoles of Atari, NES, and EA Spo...

Hey Everyone!I am an instructional designer who is passionate about learning. In fact, I spend a lot of my free time learning from exceptional teachers across the globe. This learning does not take place in a classroom, school or university. I spe...

It should really be an hour of code but we have 2 organizations doing events.One group, Inevitable Betrayal will be doing an hour of WoW macros.SIGVE is looking at doing an hour of Linden scripting.What type of hour of code would work at your scho...