Agenda

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Gamification
Technology for Teachers
Letter of Intent
Combining Gamification and TfT
Challenges
What's Next
Questions
Run Down on Gamification

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Made as a board game at first (notecards
and dice)
Race-to-the-top mechanic
Iterative gameplay
Content navigation
Experience based
NPCs
Technology for Teachers

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Required course
Technology prep for future teachers
Individual Identification Plan
Designed for Games

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Progression
Meaningful Choices
Practice
Mastery
Guiding Hand
Problem Solving
Familiar UI
Designed for Instruction

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Instructor Guided
Student Specific
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Topic
Learning Preference

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Group and Individual Activities
12 days - 3 weeks
Archived Resources
Letter of Intent

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Game Walkthrough
Explanation of Design
Instructions for Teaching and Learning
How it came together

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D2L Activities
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Discussions
Dropbox
Quizzes
Grades

Conditional Release
Intelligent Agents
Valence API
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UI
Progress
Gamification
Challenges Faced

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Map
Release conditions

Valence
Unique files types
Intelligence agents only as emails
The way grades are recorded
More development time
Roadmap (What's Next)

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Pilot Class
Genders

Pilot
Data

Granularity
Liz Crowell
University of Central Oklahoma
ecrowell1@uco.edu
@LizbonOKC

Robert Wall
University of Central Oklahoma
rwall3@uco.edu
@thadewey

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