The past 4 weeks have been wonderfully engaging and enlightning; I expect the last week to be the same. I am actually saddened that this is coming to an end! I’ve enjoyed myself immensely, and I feel that I’ll be able to take some of the concepts and ideas we’ve learned this week and apply Read more about Things to take away from my GOBLIN course[…]
I play EVE Online, and that was the advice I got when I asked more experienced players how to get better at player-vs-player combat. Regular failure is simply part of the game, so much so that one of the tutorial missions for players in their first week is a suicide mission where success requires flying Read more about Go Die a Hundred Times[…]
I have experimented with using a table-top role-playing game to develop vocabulary, grammar, and language skills in an ESL classroom. From this experience, I am not sure whether there is a place for this kind of game in the classroom, but I intend to revise and retry this experiment in a future course, and maybe Read more about An Experiment in Game-Based Learning in an ESL Classroom[…]
A recent New York Times article reviews research on effective teamwork, concluding that two main factors distinguish effective teams from failures: effective communication, and social trust. Effective communication means everyone being able to get their ideas out, and heard, but not necessarily agreeing. A pre-requisite is the building of social trust, or the feeling that Read more about Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others (NY TIMES article)[…]
I have been thinking a lot about implementing a team element to the third unit of my Comp I classes this semester, and I am feeling excited about it, but I am also feeling a little uncomfortable and hesitant. As a student, I never enjoyed doing group work or projects. It wasn’t so much the Read more about Collaborative Games for the Less Than Enthusiastic Team Learner[…]
