Using game elements to create interactive, engaging instruction doesn't have to mean investing hours and hours into the development of a full-scale Halo-type game. Creating an interactive, game-like learning experience can be done simply and easily with PowerPoint, a little imagination, and an audience response system. In this workshop, you will create an interactive game-like learning experience using game thinking and game elements such as storytelling, mystery, immediate feedback, and friendly competition. Learn how to craft a gamified instructional story based on learning science to engage, motivate and educate your learners. NOTE: Please bring a laptop or a tablet with PowerPoint and a phone capable of texting so that you can both experience and design engaging game-like instruction.

1. Twitter:@kkapp
Tools of Engagement: "Tools of
Engagement: Gamification, Storytelling
and Audience Response Systems"
By Karl M. Kapp
February 25, 2015

2. Related Resources…
Lynda.com Course: Gamification of Learning

3. For:
Notes/Slides
Additional Ideas
www.karlkapp.com
www.karlkapp.com/kapp-notes

4. Let’s Get
Started

5. What game elements and
tools of engagement are
used?

6. Twitter:@kkapp
Example: Interactive Story
The Quest for
Learner
Engagement:

7. NJEdge
and
Karl M. Kapp
Present:

8. The Case of the

9. t was a quiet Monday morning, very
quiet, really quiet… almost too…

10. Then, out of nowhere, she flew into my office,
like a Dean who had a problem that needed
solved …
Hi Dean.

11. I have a problem that
needs to be solved.

12. We need more
engagement.
She wanted to increase student
engagement and have more interactive
learning for our students.

13. You came to the right
instructor that’s what I do…

14. Yeah, I know…that’s
why I hired you. Ugh..
Now take the new person here
and go ask Clyde, he went to a
conference on the subject.

15. For some reason, she didn’t seem bothered
by the fact that she was breaking the
school’s no smoking policy…

16. Here’s where you come in. Help me figure
out the clues …and fast.

17. Text KarlKapp to 37607
Or
PollEv.com/karlkapp
First, take out your text
machines.
K a r l K a p p

18. Choose your disguise…

20. Stakes are high and time is short.

21. Students are not Engaged? Why?
LEARNING EAGLE
October 30, 2014See Section F for Coupons
Investigation Opened
By Harry James
Las Vegas, NV– It started out as
just another normal day. Larry
the Learner had just sat at his
desk to embark on a learning
journey. A journey that turned
horrific within only a few
moments.
The result is unnecessary
incident that could and should
have been avoided by having
the right instructional strategy
coupled with the right content.
The news of disengagement was spreading…

22. We need to find Ivan…the Informant...

23. I knew one of his old haunts…

24. He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly
strip convention.
Hello, Clueless…

25. Look I am going to ask you some
questions, the right answer gives you
a clue to interactive learning.
He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly
strip convention.

26. What do you and your detectives here have
to say about this?

27. Are Game-based Learning and Gamification are the same thing?
Are Games and Gamification are the same
thing?

30. Enter Question TextNext clue, how many types of gamification are
there?

32. There are two types of
gamification.

33. He grabbed his typewriter and made some
notes to explain to me the difference between
the two types of gamification.

34. Structural
Gamification is
use of game-
elements to propel
a learner through
content with no
alteration or
changes to the
content.
Structural:
 Points
 Badges
 Leaderboard

35. Content
Gamification use
of game thinking
to alter content
to make it more
game-like but
doesn’t turn the
content into a
game.
Content:
 Challenge
 Story
 Characters
 Missions

36. Ivan then grabbed his laptop to show me a
demonstration of the two types.

37. First Structural Gamification….

39. Then he demonstrated content gamification....

40. It was a little like déjá vu ….this content
gamification…..

41. It has elements of story, characters and
content that was altered to be more game-like…

42. Ivan had another question for me…I was the
one who was supposed to be ask’n questions….
Do learners remember facts better
when presented in a bulleted list or
when presented in a story?

47. Thanks, Ivan.Get out of here….
This mystery of interactive learning was
starting to take shape…

48. Let’s brief the boss on what we know so far…

49. So what have we
learned?

50. So far, so good. Follow the next clue on the
matchbook I found in my desk drawer….

52. I arrived at the place on the matchbook, as
shady as a clump of oaks caught in an eclipse…

53. Enter Question TextHmm… What could this location and clue mean???
Tell me. Does engaging instruction start with:

55. Action draws in the learner and
encourages further engagement.

56. Too often instruction is about the content
and not about interacting or engaging with
the content.

57. Make the learner do something
Answer a question
Identify a procedure.
Make a decision.
Solve a mystery.
Confront a challenge.
Pick a team.

58. Time for a recap with the boss…she looked a
little frantic…she wanted to know one more
thing.

59. I want to know one more
thing.
What game elements can
engage learners?

60. What game elements did we
encounter today that can
engage learners?

61. Any Others?

62. Great stuff, you folks really seemed to have
cracked the case as to what makes engaging
learning.

63. I thought my work was done but then….I
found another pack of matches on my way
home…

64. But we’ll have to leave that mystery for
another presentation….

65. What game elements and
tools of engagement are used
in this presentation?

67. 1) Story/Genre
2) Polling/Audience Input
3) Teams
4) Mystery/Curiosity
5) Characters
6) Competition
7) Group Particpation
8) Action

68. QUESTIONS?

69. The End

70. Credits:
Detective Artwork Courtesy of Vanessa Bailey
Typewriter is MS Clip Art
Audience Response Devices by PollEverywhere
Demo of Gamification Software by MindTickle

71. Let’s Examine the
Elements of the Visual
Story

72. Parts of a Story…

73. Stories need
Characters…

74. Stories need Plot…
What is happening…

75. Stories need Tension…

76. Stories need Resolution…

77. Stories need Resolution…

78. Stories need Conclusion…

79. 1. Characters
Stories Need
2. Plot (something has to happen).
3. Tension
4. Resolution
5. Conclusion

80. Storytelling

81. Researchers have found that the
human brain has a natural affinity for
narrative construction.
Yep, People tend to remember facts
more accurately if they encounter
them in a story rather than in a list.
And they rate legal arguments as more
convincing when built into narrative
tales rather than on legal precedent.
Carey, B. (2007) this is Your Life (and How You Tell it). The New York Times. Melanie Green
http://www.unc.edu/~mcgreen/research.html. Chapter 2 “The Gamification of Learning and
Instruction.

82. Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2009). Reading Stories Activates Neural
Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences.Psychological Science, 20(8), 989–999.
doi:10.1111/j.1467‐9280.2009.02397.x
When a person reads about certain
activities in a story, the areas of the
brain associated with those activities
are activated.
The research found that different brain
regions track different aspects of a
story. If the character moved, the
corresponding region of the brain for
physical movement became active.

83. You Try…