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Games for Change Keynote Videos Online

30th June 2011 by Joey J. Lee under Conferences, Videos     

The 8th annual Games for Change Festival just wrapped up last week in New York City.  It featured excellent demos, workshops, and talks from the likes of former Vice President Al Gore and game designer/professor Jesse Schell.  It was neat to see Gore talk about the potential of gamification to address big problems like climate change.  More impressive was the standing ovation Jesse Schell received after his inspiring talk about designing games to promote peace.

Click here to check out video from the conference, including the keynotes.

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Tabula Digita’s “Dimension U” Offers an Educational Game Platform

9th June 2011 by Joey J. Lee under News, Platforms, Videos, Websites     

Steven Hoy from Tabula Digita just told me about their new learning system called Dimension U.  Dimension U is an educational game platform where elementary and high school students “compete, collaborate, and play, all while working on core curriculum from their schools.”  Consists of 5-20 minute games in subjects like math, science, history, and literacy.  The system seems to incorporate many successful elements of popular virtual environments and social games, including avatar personalization and the ability to accumulate credits for accomplishments and compete with students all around the world to earn rankings on leaderboards as part of regional and national competitions.  Also included are dashboard metrics for teachers and administrators to track individual progress.  Dimension U is aligned to common core standards.  Click here to watch the promo video for Dimension U.

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Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world

24th May 2011 by MissDaisy under Videos     

Check out a video from Seth Priebatsch where he talks about SCVNGR, a mobile start-up trying to build the game layer on top of the world backed by Google ventures. Interesting framework to look at.

About SCVNGR: Players play SCVNGR by going places, doing challenges and having fun — outside of the office, beyond the screen, in the real world. Organizations use SCVNGR by building on the game layer by adding their own challenges to the places they care about.

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A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool

10th May 2011 by MissDaisy under Research, Videos     

Check out a video and paper by Judy Willis, MD on applying a video game model as learning tool. In the article, she posits that “games insert players at their achievable challenge level and reward player effort and practice with acknowledgment of incremental goal progress, not just final product. The fuel for this process is the pleasure experience related to the release of dopamine.”

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Gamification video from The Escapist

27th April 2011 by Joey J. Lee under Videos     

The Escapist has an interesting video on gamification.  In cartoon form, the video briefly discusses the potential benefits of gamification — including what it could offer education — and also the potential pitfalls.

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Jesse Schell’s DICE 2010 talk

27th April 2011 by Joey J. Lee under Videos     

Jesse Schell’s famous DICE talk.  A future in which everything from shopping to brushing your teeth becomes gamified.  Click here to watch When Games Invade Real Life.

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