{"id":5449,"date":"2015-08-28T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2015-08-27T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T22:33:46","slug":"gamification-101-preface-to-the-start-of-term-with-a-gamified-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/28\/gamification-101-preface-to-the-start-of-term-with-a-gamified-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification 101[1]: Preface to the Start of Term with a Gamified Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5457\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badge01-300x290.png\" alt=\"badge01\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badge01-300x290.png 300w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badge01-1024x990.png 1024w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badge01.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;m just about to start term with a gamified course.\u00a0I&#8217;ve been developing this design for a number of years now and thought I&#8217;d provide a bit of a journal on what we I am doing and how it&#8217;s going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtroyal.ca\/ProgramsCourses\/FacultiesSchoolsCentres\/ScienceTechnology\/Departments\/MathematicsComputing\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My department<\/a> has a tradition of having every instructor fill out a completion report at the end of every term for every section of every course that was taught. It&#8217;s a bit of a nuisance, but it has a number of wonderful benefits, some of which are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>course designs and deliveries are reviewed every year, and can be tweaked to keep them relevant<\/li>\n<li>sessional instructors (like me) get to provide our input to course design and delivery<\/li>\n<li><strong>I<\/strong> can go back and look over my own reports to remind myself of what went well, and what I need to change (most of us aren&#8217;t very good at this sort of reflection, especially if we don&#8217;t teach the course every semester)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will be my 3rd time teaching this course, and I&#8217;ve made a number of changes. It&#8217;s a 1st year introduction to computers course, that is in many ways quite typical. We teach them a bit about hardware &amp; software, networks, how to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>On Deadlines, Carrots, and Sticks<\/h2>\n<p>The basic design of the course is as I have described in <a title=\"8 Part Series on Gamification as Reigeluth\u2019s Post-industrial Paradigm of Instruction: Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/13\/8-part-series-on-gamification-as-a-post-industrial-paradigm-of-instruction-part-1\/\">previous posts<\/a>. In the first iteration I had almost no deadlines at all and I found it hard to convince my students to submit things on a regular basis.\u00a0Taking a page from the book of &#8220;Carrots are better than Sticks&#8221;, I decided to offer a few bonus points for submitting certain things by certain dates. Mathematically, it amounts to the same thing as giving late penalties, but bonus sounds so much nicer, doesn&#8217;t it? Missing out on an opportunity for a bonus may be disappointing, but not as dispiriting as having points taken away. One is more like a lost opportunity, while the other is punishment.<\/p>\n<p>More and more I&#8217;m thinking that with very few exceptions, punishing students is a mistake. I&#8217;m not saying they should be able to get away with anything they want &#8211; most of my students will probably tell you that they have to work quite hard in my classes.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the idea that a student who has managed to maintain an A, let&#8217;s say, could lose that by blowing one single test or assignment just seems illogical.<\/p>\n<p>For a variety of reasons,\u00a0my website for the course is not fully public, but I will provide screenshots of various things when they are appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5461\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gamification-300x205.png\" alt=\"gamification\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gamification-300x205.png 300w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gamification-1024x701.png 1024w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gamification.png 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>If you are interested in following my course\u00a0journal, watch for the &#8220;Gamification 101&#8221; heading.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for more information on gamification, <a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/Gamification\/doku.php\" target=\"_blank\">check out my website here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5449'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5449);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5449);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5449);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>I&#8217;m just about to start term with a gamified course.\u00a0I&#8217;ve been developing this design for a number of years now and thought I&#8217;d provide a bit of a journal on what we I am doing and how it&#8217;s going. My &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/28\/gamification-101-preface-to-the-start-of-term-with-a-gamified-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,352,369,81,24],"tags":[386,126,387,16],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-gamification-2","category-higher-education","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-comp1103","tag-gamification","tag-gamification-101","tag-instructional-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1pT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5464,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/29\/gamification-1012-reflecting-on-previous-versions\/","url_meta":{"origin":5449,"position":0},"title":"Gamification 101[2]: Reflecting on Previous Versions","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Part 2 in my continuing saga of my current iteration of a gamified course. 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The last day to change classes is tomorrow, so I'll go through the discussion group, website, all the quest logs, etc. then to make sure only the registered students have access. I also need to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"snap01534","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/snap01534-300x58.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/snap01534-300x58.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/snap01534-300x58.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5470,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/03\/gamification-1016-scoring\/","url_meta":{"origin":5449,"position":3},"title":"Gamification 101[6]: Scoring","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Part 6\u00a0in my continuing saga of my current iteration of a gamified course. In a course where assessment is primarily attainment\u00a0based\u00a0rather than time-based, and that uses\u00a0criterion-referenced rather than\u00a0norm-referenced measures, getting the learning tasks (assignments, quests, etc.) right is key. I give my students lots of choices when it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/scorecard-10-Notes.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/scorecard-10-Notes.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/scorecard-10-Notes.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/scorecard-10-Notes.png?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6409,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/04\/03\/gameful-learning-table-of-contents-for-gamification-101\/","url_meta":{"origin":5449,"position":4},"title":"[Gameful Learning] Table of Contents for Gamification 101","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the current Table of Contents for Gamification 101 (Book 1) Gamification 101: An Inquiry Based Journey Part 1 - Background Prologue What s Gamification? 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