During my career as a middle school teacher, I've made use of a number of biogeochemical cycle dice games that are readily available in several […]
Escape rooms have been in vogue in education for a couple of years. The proponents, such as Breakout EDU, tout them as a fun way […]
I spent most of the last summer creating Boss Battles for my gamified classroom. Throughout the school year, I also shared with you a couple […]
By far, the greatest successful addition to my game this year was the Boss Battles. Piloted at the end of last year, and fully implemented […]
A couple of months ago I shared with you how to create Boss Battles using Google Forms and Sheets and assign XP automatically using the Vlookup function. […]
On many occasions during the game-based learning and gamification Tweeter chats I participate in, we've talked about game skins (#games4ed, #XPLAP). For those of you that may […]
Over the last couple of years, as my game has grown, so has my need to add elements that improve the sharing of ranks, perks, and […]
For a long time, I've been thinking about how to do more than just award experience points (XP) to my students who complete a mastery […]
My last couple of posts ended with a question, "How can I give the XP generated by sidequests or Boss Battles automatically to students?" This is […]
In recent conversations with my gamification PLN, the use of Easter Eggs has come up. As a non-videogame gamer, I was unfamiliar with the term. Doing some […]
In a recent conversation, the subject of student-created games came up. As many before me, I've had students create games for a variety of reasons - […]