Faculty and staff can now sign up for the final offering of the Instructional Game Design Workshop this summer, scheduled 1-5 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in the Hemisphere Room, 501 Hale Library. Please register promptly as the workshop is limited to 24 faculty/staff, and several spots have already been filled by waitlist requests from previous sessions.
Registration will close Tuesday, July 17. Email bward@k-state.edu to reserve your spot today, or if you have questions about the workshop.
Faculty and staff can now sign up for the newly revised, instructional game design workshop scheduled from 1-5 p.m. Thursday, May 24, in the Hemisphere Room, 501 Hale Library. Please register promptly as the workshop is limited to 24 faculty/staff, and several spots have already been filled by waitlist requests from previous sessions.
Do you love games? Are you looking for new ways to engage and challenge your students? Come join us in our intensive, hands-on, instructional game design workshop. Continue reading “Game Design Workshop scheduled Thursday, May 24”
Mobile apps are everywhere! Come join Ben Ward 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in Room 212 of the K-State Student Union as we take a running tour of the differences between types of mobile apps, devices, and what you can do with them to draw them into your classroom. We’ll also explore how to build your first, simple, web-based app and use K-State Online to share it with your students. Don’t worry, no programming required. Novices welcome!
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K-State faculty/staff can now sign up for the Instructional Game Design Workshop scheduled 1-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Hemisphere Room (501) of Hale Library. Please register promptly as the workshop is limited to 18 faculty/staff, and several spots have already been filled by waitlist requests from previous sessions.
Game-based learning is gaining momentum in higher education with its promise of making learning more engaging and motivating for students. Come share in the opportunity to experience this first-hand through both game play and the exploration of the fundamentals of game design.
The workshop will delve into social games, serious games, traditional off-the-shelf games, mobile games, and even role playing, as a backdrop to discovering the formal elements of game design and the underlying iterative process needed to create functional, playable games.
Be prepared to participate in learning creative and innovative ways to approach teaching, even if you don’t plan to use games in your classroom.
The workshop will be led by Ben Ward, an instructional designer in iTAC with more than 15 years of experience in game design and gaming. Questions about the workshop should go to bward@k-state.edu.
Game-based learning is gaining momentum in higher education with the promise of making learning more engaging and motivating for students. The potential of games to create learning experiences that are goal-oriented, problem-based, and often very complex, is undeniable. Whether using paper-and-pencil games, traditional games, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), serious games, or even transmedia experiences, games let players explore, experiment, and test their understanding of the material they are learning.
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Quora is NOT the next great search engine. Although at first glance you might think that is exactly what it is. No, instead, Quora is an attempt to fill in all the spaces left untouched by Wikipedia. Founded by former Facebook engineers Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever, Quora seeks to tie a question-and-answer format to the social framework of the Web.
Joining Quora is as easy as logging in to Facebook or Twitter. In fact, signing in to Quora immediately links these accounts together with your Quora account.
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