{"id":41616,"date":"2017-08-17T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=41616"},"modified":"2017-08-17T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:36:23","slug":"gamification-higher-education-gencon50-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/08\/gamification-higher-education-gencon50-presentation.html","title":{"rendered":"Gamification in Higher Education #GenCon50 Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019d like to share some of my experience of Gen Con\u2019s Trade Day yesterday. To start with, here is video from the presentation that my colleagues Jason Goldsmith, Amanda Starkel, and I gave at Gen Con yesterday.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_kkNdxbtjQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBBo7pxloSs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nThe room was packed, the audience engaged, and the conversations lively. I\u2019m sorry that my camera battery ran out before the end of the two-hour session. I\u2019ll happily say more about what was in the missing segment, but regular readers will probably be able to guess the kinds of things I might say about Canon.<\/p>\nHere are some more photos from Trade Day\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe Will Call line was incredibly long, as it usually is:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41621\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/08\/Gen-Con-2017-line-ends-here.jpg\" alt=\"Gen Con 2017 line ends here\" width=\"558\" height=\"418\"><\/p>\nI was very lucky and managed to go to pick up my non-Trade Day items at a mid-afternoon time when there was hardly any line. Even when the line runs through most of the Indiana Convention Center, however, they do an incredibly job of keeping things flowing and of directing traffic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe next session I went to was by the inventors of a card game called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamecrafter.com\/games\/search-destroy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Search and Destroy<\/a>, available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamecrafter.com\/games\/search-destroy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Game Crafter<\/a>, which can be used to get students thinking and talking about database searches. It is a very cool concept. You draw cards with keywords and actually search in a database online to find them on your turn. You can add modifiers to your own search or others. I managed to knock another player out of the game who had keywords that included \u201cDarwin,\u201d \u201cinsect,\u201d and \u201czombie\u201d by playing a card on him that required his results to be peer reviewed\u2026 \ud83d\ude42 \n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamecrafter.com\/games\/search-destroy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.thegamecrafter.com\/games\/search-destroy<\/a><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41619\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/08\/Seek-and-Destroy.jpg\" alt=\"Seek and Destroy\" width=\"561\" height=\"421\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe last session I went to (before going to dinner and playing a couple of rounds of Canon with Butler University colleagues) was on the use of simulations in the classroom. The presentation and practical activities helped me think of some simulations related to being a refugee or immigrant which I can use in a class I am teaching this academic year.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41618\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/08\/Classroom-Simulations-GenCon-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Classroom Simulations GenCon 2017\" width=\"561\" height=\"421\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\nOnce again, Trade Day was an inspiring and very practically useful event to attend as an educator. I hope to see still more university professors there in the years to come!<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41620\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/08\/Gen-Con-2017-James.jpg\" alt=\"Gen Con 2017 James\" width=\"559\" height=\"419\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019d like to share some of my experience of Gen Con\u2019s Trade Day yesterday. To start with, here is video from the presentation that my colleagues Jason Goldsmith, Amanda Starkel, and I gave at Gen Con yesterday. The room was packed, the audience engaged, and the conversations lively. I\u2019m sorry that my camera battery ran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":41617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26,55],"tags":[2459,14868,2971,3743,3746,3819,6546,9578,10969,14867,14749,12808,13175],"class_list":["post-41616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-games","category-libraries","tag-database","tag-destroy","tag-educators","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-gen-con","tag-librarians","tag-professors","tag-search","tag-simulations","tag-the-game-crafter","tag-trade-day","tag-university"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Gamification in Higher Education #GenCon50 Presentation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I'd like to share some of my experience of Gen Con's Trade Day yesterday. 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