Learn These Four Chords
I was twelve years old when my father bought me my first guitar. It was a pawn shop special. Although, at the time, I don’t think I knew what …
TYJM: A Better Group Project
August 2011 to Dec 2014: Marketing Plan Project as a Multi-player Game When we have shared intentionality, we actively identify as part of a group, we deliberately and explicitly …
TYJM: Motivating Team Members
‘Quest’ as a Catalyst One of the many great examples in Reality is Broken was Quest to Learn. Quest to Learn(Q2L) is a grade 6-12 school in New York …
TYJM: The Problem with Group Projects
The Problem with Group Projects The preceding articles in this series focus on the portion of Reality is Broken we listened to on our drive to the beach. On …
TYJM: The Four Defining Traits of Game Design
There is a tendency for many of us in academia put the emphasis on the ‘teaching’ side of the teaching/learning equation. Perhaps this is because we have more control …
Thank You, Jane McGonigal! Pt.1
Preamble While attending DevLearn 2017 in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to meet Jane McGonigal. I don’t usually do the book signing ‘thing’ but, after her keynote, I …
Adventures in Blogging
I have been toying with the idea of creating a blog for quite a while. In fact, I have started and stopped building this blog at least half a …
Buzzwords Kill
Those of us that work with educational technology are constantly awash in a sea of buzzwords. These buzzwords can, at times, be useful; particularly when everyone is on the …
Sound Advice
A couple of years ago I invested in a pair of hearing aids. It was not an easy decision. I thought of hearing aids as a sign of weakness …