Archive for the year 2012

Gamification Blog Book Tour: Week Five Stops and Week Four Recap

Posted on 14. May, 2012 by .

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TODAY’S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP:May 17: Slight alternation in the schedule. Today’s stop is Gamification Happenings. It is the Pinterest page for the book and all things gamification. Also, today would be a good day to revisit some of the great posts of this week. Stop by and see the post at Designing Digitally about [...]

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Gamification Blog Book Tour, Week Four Stops and Week Two Recap

Posted on 06. May, 2012 by .

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TODAY’S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP: May 11: Zaid Ali Alsagoff Zaid Learn And if you missed a couple of recent stops, check out Mike Qaissaunee’s post Gamification of Learning and Instruction and Koreen Olbrish’s The Shamification of Gamification . And Larry Hiner at drlarryhiner as well as Catherine Lombardozzi at her Gamification Whistle Stop. The Gamification of [...]

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Gamification Blog Book Tour, Week Three Stops and Week Two Recap

Posted on 30. Apr, 2012 by .

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TODAY”S BLOG STOP:  May 4: UL EduNeering Online Compliance Training Blog The blog book tour has been a lot of fun, with interesting comments and exciting dialogues and some in-person stops. Here are the stops for week three (with a few changes) and a recap of week two. April 30: Enid Crystal ASTD New York Chapter [...]

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Tour Stops for Week Two of Gamification of Learning and Instruction Tour

Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by .

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TODAY’S STOP:April 27: Connie Malamed The eLearning Coach: Are you a Gamification Wizard This week promises to be an exciting second week of the Gamification Blog Book Tour. Here are the stops for this week. April 23: Clark Quinn Learnlets April 24: Karl Grieb ASTD Philadelphia Chapter April 25: Webinar Presentation for Houston ASTD Chapter “What Research [...]

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Gamification of Learning and Instruction Blog Book Tour Week One Recap

Posted on 21. Apr, 2012 by .

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Week One Recap  The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information  and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy.  The week opened with a posting of the tour stops on the Learning Circuit’s Blog and the Kapp Notes blog [...]

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The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Blog Book Tour Underway!

Posted on 17. Apr, 2012 by .

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TODAY”S TOUR STOP: April 20: Judy Unrein OneHundred Forty Words and Rich Mesch Performance Punctuated. The tour is going well and has garnered some controversy as Kathy Sierra has weighed on as a self-proclaimed gamification curmudgeon and is appropriately warning folks about the downside of gamification–which certianly exists. It’s lead to some great discussions about [...]

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UL Acquires EduNeering from Kaplan

Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by .

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It looks like EduNeering, the leader in compliance-based learning has been acquired by UL, a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment, Life & Health, Knowledge Services and Verification Services. Looks like it is going to be a perfect fit. Keep your dial right here for more [...]

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Excerpt from Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning

Posted on 02. Apr, 2012 by .

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Looking through some old files, I found this interesting excerpt from “Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning.” Managing Team Members Across the World SAP—an inter-enterprise software development and implementation company—needed to provide their project managers with a learning experience to address a specific challenge—managing teams whose members were scattered across the globe. With team members [...]

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Announcement of Serious Games Directory

Posted on 28. Mar, 2012 by .

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New Online, International Directory for Serious Games Industry Offers Offers Free Listings for Titles, Tech, Services, Textbooks, Schools The Serious Games Association announced a new, international resource for developers, providers, analysts, educators and consultants, the Serious Games Directory.  All listings and access will be available free in 2012. The Serious Games Directory will cover commercially available o   Games and sims o   Developers [...]

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Impact of Games on the Economy, the World and Schools

Posted on 26. Mar, 2012 by .

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Here are some interesting facts about the video game industry in terms of the impact on society from The Entertainment Software Association web site. A study, “Video Games in the 21st Century: The 2010 Report,” detailed the impact that computer and video game companies have on America’s economy. The report stated:From 2005 to 2010, the [...]

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