Tag Archives: gamification

4/12/2016

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My grades for progress reports are due tomorrow! If I don’t have your obituary turned in by today, it’s going in the gradebook as a MSG assignment!

Pretty easy day today – we just worked on the Bucket List Carpe Diem essay pre-writing.

prewriting stations

There are 12 stations to contemplate. Once you are done with this, you should have a working thesis, quotes, and proof for your essay that we are going to write tomorrow!

You can use the links in Blackboard to refresh your memory on specific facts and character names.

this is your life

I’m *really* excited about Classcraft – a new way that I bring gamification back to my classroom. I spent a little time today creating characters with you. Please, if you have any questions or suggestions, let me know! You are my guinea pigs for next year! 😀

1/21/14

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Welcome to Term 3!

If this is your first time on board, welcome! If you are a returning member, I’m glad to have you back! :)

So glad I got to meet all of my present students (unless you were a dork and ended up sitting in Mrs. Bollato’s class for the entirety of Block 1).

If you were absent, you can probably catch up without staying after school, but you’ll need someone to explain the details of what we did.

levels

I did explain a few key differences of my class: namely, that I am on a point system. There most points you can earn for the term is 1500 points. That means that if you have 1500 points at the end of the term, you will have earned 100%. If you earn 130/1500 points, you’ll have earned a 90, 1200 points earns an 80, 1100 points is a 73, and 1050 points is a 70.Levels

The first thing we did on day one was create to characters for The Pride of Riley. The things that I’ll be focusing on when I grade them are your Nature, Demeanor, Attributes, and your (4) R’s. If you weren’t here, you can find this material in BB under Welcome to the Ship: First Day Stuff: Gamification.

The big things that I will be grading are your Nature and Demeanor, your Attributes (7/5/3), and your R’s. Remember to copy your nuggets down each day while I’m taking role: those are your learning objectives!

Most classes were able to do the First Day survey (located in First Day Stuff: A Few Assignments). It’s a pretty short survey, so 2nd block can do it tomorrow.

And lastly, we did a neat little test circling numbers. It was more of an experience than an assignment, so if you missed it, you missed some fun.

See you all tomorrow, mateys!

IV – 8/27/2012

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I have English IV classes for 2nd and 3rd block.

Today, we created character sheets. Here is a quick breakdown of what we did and how you can do it:

  • Name – Give yourself a cool pirate nickname
  • Player – That’s you. These two names can be the same.
  • Chronicle – Term 1
  • Nature and Demeanor – Your nature is your true self, your demeanor is that “hat” you wear on campus.  There is a list of archetypes in Game Mechanics in LMS. Read through them and find one that is your NATURE and one that is your DEMEANOR.
  • Concept – What do you want to be seen as in my class? A Vistas Viking? Slacker? Deep Thinker?
  • Age
  • Home Campus
  • Disembark – Projected graduation date
  • Abilities
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Mental

      Find the column that is your strength and distribute 7 dots between the three categories.
      Your middle column gets five dots.
      Your weakest column only gets three dots.

  • Reading, Writing, Conventions, Research, Listening/Speaking, Figure 19 – These are the things that I am required to teach you. For today, give yourself one bubble in Vocabulary
  • Compass – These will determine what you roll if I catch you on your cell phone
  • The R’s – You are responsible for four of the five R’s. As a teacher, I make the curriculum relevant. You have ten dots to grade yourself in the remaining four R’s
  • Health 0 Your health is your conduct. Stay healthy.

Back Page

  • Merits, Flaws, and Achievements – These are “super powers” you can earn
  • XP Sheet – you can keep track of your experience (grades) here.

After that, we did the First Day survey, which can be found here.

We then created Edmodo accounts. Get the class code from me.

We closed the class with a silly number “game” where we had to circle numbers in numerical order. Riley then taught us a “trick” to help us do better the second time around.

The Character Sheet and the Survey will be easy ways to earn XP. Simple!

III – 8/27/2012

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The good news? I only have English III first block, so when we lose time to Vistas Visits or slow buses, I don’t have to try and rush us to catch up with my other classes.

The bad news? We lost about 40 minutes of class today.

Today, we created character sheets. Here is a quick breakdown of what we did and how you can do it:

  • Name – Give yourself a cool pirate nickname
  • Player – That’s you. These two names can be the same.
  • Chronicle – Term 1
  • Nature and Demeanor – Your nature is your true self, your demeanor is that “hat” you wear on campus.  There is a list of archetypes in Game Mechanics in LMS. Read through them and find one that is your NATURE and one that is your DEMEANOR.
  • Concept – What do you want to be seen as in my class? A Vistas Viking? Slacker? Deep Thinker?
  • Age
  • Home Campus
  • Disembark – Projected graduation date
  • Abilities
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Mental

      Find the column that is your strength and distribute 7 dots between the three categories.
      Your middle column gets five dots.
      Your weakest column only gets three dots.

  • Reading, Writing, Conventions, Research, Listening/Speaking, Figure 19 – These are the things that I am required to teach you. For today, give yourself one bubble in Vocabulary
  • Compass – These will determine what you roll if I catch you on your cell phone
  • The R’s – You are responsible for four of the five R’s. As a teacher, I make the curriculum relevant. You have ten dots to grade yourself in the remaining four R’s
  • Health 0 Your health is your conduct. Stay healthy.

Back Page

  • Merits, Flaws, and Achievements – These are “super powers” you can earn
  • XP Sheet – you can keep track of your experience (grades) here.

After that, we did the First Day survey, which can be found here.

The Character Sheet and the Survey will be easy ways to earn XP. Simple!