Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Got Game? I'm Beginning To!?

Technology and Foreign Languages; my two teaching and learning passions.  I applied and was accepted to this fall's NCCAT (North Carolina Center for Advancement of Teaching) NCCAT seminar entitled Augmented Reality and Gamification. In preparation and excitement, I've started pre-learning about it.

Summertime has afforded me time to catch up on my internet connections. Those led me to GE4L, Game Elements for Learning, offered by Faculty e-Commons. I've just started the course. It's a MOOC (Massive Open O ooo.... Online Course)  - Another first!

I'm settling into the course. I started it late, so I'm a step or two out of step.  I'm hoping to get it inline and take off.  I'm certainly buying what it's selling, but I'm trying to envision how I can utiltize the platform in my middle school foreign language classrooms, (12 classes, 3 levels, 300+ students....).  I started creating a MyFirstWorld thinking that might be a way to "gamify" my classes, but I get started and stall.  Take a look - give some advice & guidance?  KMS HawkLand.

That's it for today.