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Started this discussion. Last reply by Joana Ayala Jul 16, 2015. 4 Replies 2 Likes
Hello! A colleague and I were funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in October 2014 to create a library-based Center for Games and Learning at our university (MidAmerica Nazarene…Continue
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- Pandemic
- Location
- Kansas City
- Affiliation (company, school, group, e.g.)
- MidAmerica Nazarne University
- Affiliation URL
- www.mnu.edu
- If my life story were a game, it would be a cross between ...
- The Oregon Trail and Chess
- Most people know me as a (check all that apply) ...
- Writer, Teacher, The Best Project Manager Ever, Researcher
- When it comes to my game-making career, I'm ...
- a newbie (no game experience ... yet!)
- Kinds of games I’m best known for making or want to be known for making someday (check all that apply) ...
- Social games, Mobile games, Simulations, Board games, Card games, Educational games, Health games, Workplace / enterprise / productivity games
- Will collaborate for
- Creative fulfillment and fun, Free food, Experience and mentorship, School credit, Money, Big money, A chance at a Nobel Prize
- Anything else you want to say about the kinds of projects or people or organizations you’d like to work with?
- I am an academic librarian who is passionate about education. I love to work with researchers and people who want to see games motivate students to learn through a process and not focus solely on the end product.
- What abilities would you bring to a collaboration?
- I am the lead project director of a grant from the Instite of Museum and Library Services to create a Center for Games and Learning at MidAmerica Nazarene University. I bring education, library, and grant writing abilities. I believe (and am working on a study to prove it!) that games teach 21st century skills and that they teach grit.
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Hi,
I'm Tim Hutchinson; I'm a middle school teacher at a poor school in a poor district in California. I am faced with classrooms full of reluctant readers. Now I truly believe that most students are reluctant readers because they haven't found the right book.
I decided to try and gamefully design a reading program. By that I don not mean read a book, take a test, earn a reward. I want something that will apply to any book at any level. Being a fan of Jane McGonigal, I used her book, Reality is Broken to set the parameters.
I want to plant the attached messages in some thick novel to recruit fluent readers. Fluent readers need to recruit some reluctant readers to go on a quest and read and blog about a book.
I thought it would be fun to use hidden messages and invisible ink to communicate to the teams.
I could use some collaborative help to figure out those quests, how we measure progress, how we keep it fun, and how we expand it to create a more literate community. candle1.jpg