{"id":2123,"date":"2012-04-14T18:45:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:53:37","slug":"where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/04\/14\/where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been This Week (weekly)"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\">                <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/faculty-salaries-data-2012\/131431#id=144050\">What Professors Make &#8211; Labor &#038; Work-Life Issues &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">2012 Faculty Salary Survey<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">          <span>tags:<\/span>                      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/data\">data<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/salaries\">salaries<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/academia\">academia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\">                <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6530\/gamification_framing_the_.php\">Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; Gamification: Framing The Discussion<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">[As a prelude to a full-on examination of gamification, Badgeville&#8217;s Tony Ventrice digs deep into what makes games games, using work that&#8217;s come before as a basis to explore this new tool &#8212; the first of his ongoing series of articles on gamification.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">          <span>tags:<\/span>                      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gamasutra\">gamasutra<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/features\">features<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gamification\">gamification<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/framing\">framing<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/discussion\">discussion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\">                <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/168114\/understanding_user_research_its_.php?print=1\">Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; Understanding User Research: It&#8217;s Not QA or Marketing!<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">[There is often some confusion among developers with regard to the terminology used by user researchers. Just what is focus testing, what&#8217;s user testing, and how do the goals and methods of the two differ? The IGDA Special Interest Group for Games User Research (GUR-SIG) would like to clarify the matter once and for all.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">          <span>tags:<\/span>                      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/gamasutra\">gamasutra<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/features\">features<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/understanding\">understanding<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/user\">user<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/research\">research<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/marketing\">marketing<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\">                <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/08\/magazine\/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=all\">Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive \u2018Stupid Games\u2019 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">          <span>tags:<\/span>                      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/birds\">birds<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/farmville\">farmville<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/stupid\">stupid<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/nytimesfun\">nytimesfun<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\">                <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkingworlds.com\/?page_id=5\">Demos | Thinking Worlds<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\">          <span>tags:<\/span>                      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/demos\">demos<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/sims\">sims<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/games\">games<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/engine\">engine<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/not\">not<\/a>            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/free\">free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com'>Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak'>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2123'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2123);\" 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(2123);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2123);\">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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>What Professors Make &#8211; Labor &#038; Work-Life Issues &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012 Faculty Salary Survey tags: data salaries academia Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; Gamification: Framing The Discussion [As a prelude to a full-on examination of gamification, Badgeville&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/04\/14\/where-ive-been-this-week-weekly-2\/\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-games","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5760,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/25\/games-vs-game-based-learning-vs-gamification-new-infographic-but-still-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":0},"title":"Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification : New Infographic, but still wrong.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This same group (Upside Learning) posted a very similar infographic back in June. Although a few things have been changed, the table they present to show the differences is identical to the one they published in June. Sadly, it may be simplified, but it's still as wrong now as it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"game-gbl-gamification","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/game-gbl-gamification-1024x8201.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/game-gbl-gamification-1024x8201.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/game-gbl-gamification-1024x8201.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4821,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/21\/games-vs-game-based-learning-vs-gamification-my-version\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":1},"title":"Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification &#8211; My Version","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to the other day's post about the differences between these terms, I have produced my own table outlining the differences. You'll notice mine is a little more complex. That's because the differences are more complex than the original one implied. 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The 4 Myths described by Kapp are: Gamification and Games are the same. Gamification alienates older learners. There is no science behind gamification. Gamification is about points, badges, and leaderboards. Source:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5878,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/10\/worth-repeating-deterdings-9-5-theses-on-the-power-and-efficacy-of-gamification\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":3},"title":"Worth Repeating: Deterding&#8217;s 9.5 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Gamification","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There seems to be continued confusion about the distinctions between games, gamification, and game based learning. This talk by Sebastian Deterding is now several years old, but it's as relevant now as it was then. This talk focuses on gamification; what it is, what it isn't and what is needed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"gamification","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gamification-300x205.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6501,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/08\/05\/5-mistaken-differences-between-education-games-and-the-gamification-of-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":4},"title":"5 mistaken differences between education games and the gamification of education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"And 12 ways in which these ideas are problematic. Gamification is generally defined as the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. Fair enough. But this is pretty much where the article goes off the rails. (She's not alone). Source: 5 differences between education games and the gamification of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pearsoned.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Education-games-or-gamification-of-education.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pearsoned.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Education-games-or-gamification-of-education.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pearsoned.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Education-games-or-gamification-of-education.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1642,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/04\/02\/the-ludologist-gamification-backlash-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":5},"title":"The Ludologist \u00bb Gamification Backlash Roundup","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Nice summary. 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