Category: W2015 ENGL205
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‘Earn your Shakespeare badge’ video
The Design for Learning 2015 conference has posted the video of our workshop, along with others. Here’s the complete series of posts on this project.
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Digital Badges for Professional Development
A continuing series from the University of Calgary’s “Design for Learning” conference on university learning and teaching this week (#ticonf2015 on Twitter). I’m live-blogging my notes, so forgive my typos and omissions. [/infobox] This morning I’m in a session on Micro-Credentialing and Badges, offered by the Educational Development Unit team: Lin Yu, Patti Dyjur, Kevin Saito…
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Netting Participation (Part II)
A guest post by Theresa Kenney on gamification in #engl205. This post is one of three from Theresa’s mini-series about designing and delivering badges. As previously posted, our award-system of #engl205 had four main gears that allowed for our award-system to work: The Course Outline and its Learning Outcomes The creation of the Badges and recommended activities Creating and maintaining…
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Gearing Gamificiation (Part I)
A guest post by Theresa Kenney on gamification in #engl205. This post is one of three from Theresa’s mini-series about designing and delivering badges. To award 88 students approximately 5 Badges each takes a functioning system – with easily accessible online platforms to award and display participation and awards. In practice, there were four main gears that allowed for our…
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Content Providers and Consumers
“Oh Lord!” laments a party host amid her bored guests, in a 1995 New Yorker cartoon, “We forgot to invite any content providers.” The punchline is dated, twenty years later, if only by her choice of words. In those early days of the internet, ‘content providers’ referred to those who wrote the texts that others…
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Ideas in Practice
A guest post by Theresa Kenney on gamification in #engl205. This post is an introduction to Theresa’s mini-series about designing and delivering badges. It’s one thing to brainstorm ideas and another to put them to work. After scribbling down inconclusive ideas based on research reports about gamification in Higher Ed, Michael and I were compelled to join the ‘Gamification in Higher Ed’…
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The play’s the thing
“Playing in the digital age” was the subject of a recent podcast on Australian public radio’s “Future Tense” program (which I highly recommend). This wasn’t another story about video games and their cognitive effects, but about ‘play’ in more broad terms: the freedom to innovate and take unpredictable actions within a rule-bound system, whether it’s snooker…
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TTYL, Professor
I get a fair amount of e-mail (as I’ve lamented), but there’s a special category that I get during teaching terms like this one: e-mails from students. Most are perfectly courteous inquiries about my assignments or questions about the readings, but occasionally I get messages from students that are … well, in need of a lesson in letter-writing conventions. A salutation (“Dear Prof.…
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Video Podcast on the Elizabethan Stage
Here’s my video podcast (slideshow with my voice-over) on the Elizabethan Stage, for my intro-to-Shakespeare students in Week 5 of the course.
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Shakespeare’s big ideas
Fourth post in a series on designing and delivering my intro-Shakespeare course for 160 undergraduates, starting this month. Does Shakespeare studies have a few cardinal ideas that everyone should know? Let’s see: there are his three main genres (comedy, tragedy, history); and his reputation as a natural, unschooled genius. There’s the tension between his plays…