Category Archives: English

Feedback: Sanna-Kaisa’s game of “Cross”

Posted on 28. January 2013 by Wey

We played Sanna-Kaisa’s game “Cross” for about 40 minutes with seven players, forming four teams. We had great fun while playing it. From my point of view, this is a very promising approach combining time-tested gaming meachnisms (“Memory” / “Concentration“, … Continue reading →

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Ideas for Ville: Interpreting play from a player’s and a designer’s POV

Posted on 21. January 2013 by Wey

Some further thoughts on the project as presented by Ville: I think Ville’s idea has great potential, either as a concrete, playable game or as an approach to base game structures upon – or as a combination of both! Narrative … Continue reading →

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Sanna and Ville: Possible approaches to your projects

Posted on 3. December 2012 by Wey

Sanna-Kaisa For Sanna-Kaisa, the target group consists of underage pupils to be (or to get them) interested in exploring and understanding a foreign language and culture. You already participated in a project to test Finnish students’ knowledge on German culture and language: http://www03.edu.fi/oppimateriaalit/puutarhatonttu/ … Continue reading →

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Sanna: What kind of learners (players) may be found using the game?

Posted on 12. November 2012 by Wey

Richard Bartle (1996) proposed in “Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades. Players who suit MUDs.” a gamer taxonomy in Multiplayer-Online-Games: Achievers (reaching a specific goal, levelling); Explorers (exploring all localities, mechanics, possibilities of the game); Socialisers (empathising, sympathising, grouping, connecting); Impositiors (mastering … Continue reading →

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Sanna and Ville: Learning Theories from a Design Perspective

Posted on 12. November 2012 by Wey

As an addendum, since the link to the three learning paradigms presentation was a bit ‘soft’ in its depiction, here is a much better structured and researched text by P. Ertmer and T. Newby (1993), “Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism. Comparing critical … Continue reading →

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Sanna: Starters for turning a social network into a GBL-environment

Posted on 12. November 2012 by Wey

I recommend, though with some caveat because of its commercial tilt, the text from Bunchball (2010), “Gamification 101” (Dropbox); as well as a basic intro to the three well-known learning paradigms of the 20th century (Addendum: For a more scientific, … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the seminar “Games as medium”…

Posted on 6. November 2012 by Wey

Hello Sanna in Helsinki and Ville in Copenhagen, welcome to our blog! I will try to summarise your (project) interests in one sentence, please correct and differentiate this first impression if necessary…: Sanna’s project ideas deal with social media as … Continue reading →

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