Deb Norton Tech

This week I presented a session on Gamification to a group of educators in our district. This is a very popular topic in education right now and one that I am passionate about. Here is my presentation: What is important to remember, that is not written down anywhere in my presentation, but is something I talk about when presenting on Gamification, is that while we can engage students by adding gaming aspects to our lessons and through game-based activities to help teach the content, the true focus should always be on the love of learning and the intrinsic rewards that come with it. Never should the focus be solely on extrinsic rewards and motivation, although they can play a part, this is not what we want to rely on. The ultimate goal is engagement, not materialistic rewards.  There are a lot of great resources and sites in the presentation for Gamification and Game-based learning. I hope you consider incorporating some gaming elements into ...

eQuiz Show lets a person make a Jeopardy style game. There is no account needed and a game is retrieved through saving the URL. I created a game in just a few minutes. Just enter a category and then 5 questions and answers. There is room for up to 5 categories.  When launching the game, you decide how many teams are playing and eQuiz Show will keep track of the points for each team. Editing the game is simple and quick.  All that is needed is the URL that you save and a password that you set.  Here is a video tutorial: Check out my Ed Tech game by clicking here .  Use the game with your class if you would like. I highly recommend using eQuiz Show for reviewing content and engaging your students.  It is also a great tool to use gamification in your lessons or units.

If you are interested in adding some gaming elements to your classroom and lessons; Zondle is a great site for Gamifying your content.  Watch this Chat with Deb to see how it works. Thank you to Intel's Teachers Engage for sponsoring this Chat with Deb.