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Turn Your Gamified Classroom Into An ARG
My favorite author, Edgar Allan Poe, enjoyed creating and deciphering cryptograms. A few years ago, after I taught my kids that fun fact, I started to put cryptograms in their work that, when...
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Proof Of Concept
One of the big changes I’m most excited about this year is my classroom Alternate Reality Game. Briefly, my students are the main characters in a yearlong, real-world, classroom video game. Revisit...
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How To: Make an SSTV Puzzle
SSTV, or Slow-Scan Television, is a picture transmission method, used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color. Most famously, SSTV...
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Mail Bag!
I received an e-mail from Ben Mueller that I wanted to answer on the site, as he asked some of the same questions I’ve been getting asked a lot lately. Chris, I have been doing a lot of research on...
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Mail Bag!
Dan Wade, from Webb City Middle School, sent me a couple of questions about my classroom Alternate Reality Game (ARG). I’ve received a lot of similar questions lately, so I thought I would throw my...
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Year In Review: Lessons on Gamification
I’ve learned a lot after a year of working with fifth and sixth graders in our blended, gamified makerspace. Our makerspace, called The Innovation Lab, is built on four pillars: Comp Sci, Design &...
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