Dec 04
I wanted to share an interesting article with you that Nicole unearthed written this week. It’s from Inside Higher Ed and is titled A Gamified Approach to Teaching and Learning. It states that Mark Carnes “offers evidence that an immersive gamified pedagogy can significantly increase student engagement and motivation.” In this article the author, Steven Mintz …
Dec 02
Have you ever needed to capture information quickly? Have you ever needed to collaborate with a colleague to gather information or create a form or poll? Google Forms are the perfect tool for you. It is very, very easy to create a quick form or survey, easy to collaborate with others, and easy to share …
Dec 01
We hope that you had a great Thanksgiving and are ready for the 10 Day Faculty Challenge! Go ahead, take the plunge and sign up now! The first challenge will open today and it’s an easy one, so don’t worry if you can’t get started until later. In fact, there are so many ways to …
Nov 26
Your FLC team will be taking Thursday and Friday off, so we wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you early! Please enjoy a little Thanksgiving humor below. Monday the 10 Day Faculty Challenge GAME will launch. We really hope you’ll join us and play along. Have you registered yet? You get bonus points for …
Nov 25
It’s time to register for the 10 Day Faculty Challenge “Game” — yup it’s a game. Notice the countdown timer at the right? The game begins at 8 AM on Monday, December 1. You need to register to play. We’re going all out, leaderboards, timer, join us!! Karl Kapp (see previous posts) talked a lot …
Nov 24
Thanks to all of you who were able to attend our Games vs Gamification webinar, and most of all, thank you Karl Kapp for giving us such a persuasive argument for implementing some gamification strategies in our classes. I thought Karl really showcased some win-wins for when these two worlds (gaming and education) deliberately collide. …
Nov 06
Join us in congratulating Anne Jones and Lorinda Fattic on their winning word clouds! You can find their submissions at our Faculty Challenge Google Site. We had a couple of late submissions as well so be sure and check out all of the word clouds to get some ideas for your own courses.
Oct 30
No, not at the polls–here on the FLC! We have 6 submissions for our Faculty Challenge #4: Word Clouds. View them below and in more detail (and larger) on our FLC challenge Google site. Cast your vote for your favorite 3 before Monday, November 3 at 12 pm!
Oct 27
Just a reminder that we’re still collecting your word clouds until Wednesday of this week. Please send them to Kathi as soon as possible! Here’s a mini-challenge for you history buffs– I’ve plopped the words to from a past president’s inaugural address into Wordle.net and came up with this. Can you guess whose address this was? Be …
Oct 17
Be thankful that our Faculty Challenges haven’t included things like Ze Frank’s “Toilet Paper Challenge” and “When Office Tools Attack” challenge to his followers! This is an old Ted Talk, but if you never watched it, you might enjoy Ze Frank’s Nerdcore Comedy. You’ll have to stick it out to the end of the Ted …
