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...

Hi everyone,My name is Barbara Knab. This is very new to me so I will do my best. I am not a gamer although I did teach computer programming and had my students create games in order to learn how to code. I am returning to the classroom in Septemb...

I am Cynthia Alvarado. I am an elementary teacher librarian and am sort of pioneering blended learning in my district. I have been active in Second Life as Cyndy Uriza until this year when other commitments caused me to move on to things I could u...

Hello,My name is LeeDale and I lurk (and learn). I am a veteran of GamesMOOCs past and have enjoyed watching others level up and achieve enlightenment (and get badges!). I'm fairly sure that the amount of content this MOOC generates doubles the si...

I´m redrooster and I will mostly participate as a lurker this year. I´m basically out to learn new things about game based learning. I work as a special planner in the city of Helsinki, Finland in a place called media centre of Helsinki. My main t...

My name is Laren Hammonds, though when the option's available I tend to go by Clayr online. I'm a middle school language arts teacher in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and I started digging into game-/quest-based learning as a possibility for my classroom ...

My name is Alfonso (Al) Gonzalez, AKA EducatorAl. I've been teaching grades 4-8 for 22 years now. Currently, I'm teaching Science for grades 6 and 8 in Chimacum Middle School in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I've been playing computer games sin...

Hello, I'm Tabitha from Virginia. I teach Digital Technology at a high school. Classes include Digital Photography, Graphic Design, 3-D Modeling/Animation, and 3-D Game Design. I've been tossing around the idea of gamification or flipping for a wh...

My name is Monica Swindle, and I currently teach as an adjunct at a community college and state university. I have recently begun researching game-based learning theory, and I am intrigued by what I have found. As someone who grew up playing vid...

Hi, all, I'm Shila. I'm very excited to be starting back up again this week with the MOOC, and looking forward to reading everyone's thoughts about the great resources assembled for this month's exploration. I hope to see everyone tomorrow night (...

Hello! I am Therese Catherine Ellis, an humanities instructor and one of Kae's minions. I adore the fun and opportunities inherent in networked knowledge construction and technology mediated communications. I can't wait to see what we all learn to...

I lurked a little in Part I although other things kept me from catching all of it, but I'm hoping to be more active in Part II!I am a school library media coordinator in the same district as MrPeters, although I work with grades 4-6. I have loved ...

Hi everyone! My name is Andrew Munoz, and I am a high school English teacher from Texas. I have been a gamer since I was in elementary school (anyone remember the Atari?), and I am interested in gamification and the different tools available. I am...

Sorry, I added a thread to introduce myself in the part I forum. It seems that here is the right place.I am Michael Ma, an associate professor in Educational Technology at Shaanxi Normal University, northwest of China. I am very interested in this...

Hello All,My name is Maika. I work at the University of the West of England as a Senior Lecturer in Virtual Worlds. I am here to interact with like-minded people and increase my knowledge about immersive environments. This is not a very unrealisti...

I teach chemistry in an alternative high school for kids that are either at high risk of dropping out or already have. We have small classrooms and can give individualized instruction. I wanted to give them more autonomy and started looking at way...

My name is Donald Peters and I am a high school art teacher in a nationally recognized 1:1 school district - Mooresville, NC. All our students grades 4-12 receive a Macbook Air. President Obama just visited our school district last Thursday and my...

Hello to every one,I'm Inês and i'm writing from Portugal.Sorry for my delay, but this last week was impossible.I'm now working in a projet about games and mobile learning. For that, I'm very interested in games and everything about GBL.

I’m not much of a traditional gamer. I can work for weeks in trying to prove a mathematical theorem or making a computer program do what I want, but I can’t get engaged in trying to find the secrets for destroying monsters. And I much prefer coope...

My name is Lori Wahl, and I am an instructor at the University of Idaho in Clothing, Textiles and Design. I worked in the apparel industry for over 15 years prior to teaching. I spent much of this time working with people all over the world who ...