Gamification for education!
Listen to this episode on your phone! Mike Montague is a game show host, public speaker, podcaster, and writer. He has been a radio DJ, karaoke host, virtual game show host, MC, and DJ for live events including opening for Billy Idol, Frankie Valli, and MC-ed at Toby Keith’s Bar & Grill. He is also the founder of Playful Humans, a community designed to help the burned-out and board Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Shawn Young is a co-founder and CEO of Classcraft, the Engagement Management System for schools. Since its launch, Classcraft has gained incredible traction with educators worldwide, providing tools to gamify their classrooms. Shawn taught 11th-grade physics for 9 years, holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and master’s in education from Université de Sherbrooke and is also a seasoned web developer. Shawn is Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Thijs de Vries is an expert in using gaming techniques for learning and changing behavior. As an international speaker, he talks to business leaders and managers worldwide about the impact of playful learning. In 2017, Thijs founded his latest venture Warp VR. A company that revolutionizes how people train by combining learning, gaming and Virtual Reality. Guest Links and Info Website: www.warpvr.com Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Trent Knox is the Founder & CEO of Esports Business Network, also known as EBN. Knox is a graduate of University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he studied Digital Cinema through the Academy of Creative Media, also known as ACM. His studies lead him to pursue a career in independent filmmaking, where he discovered the community & industry of Esports. His experience Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by Felipe Chagas on Unsplash Yes #Engagers we have made it to episode 200! Cheers to you, to our guests and to 200 more! On this brief episode we discuss about this celebration and also about the importance of taking a break (in games as in life) to make progress, to come back stronger and better. There are many ways Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Matthew Farber, Ed.D. is an assistant professor of technology, innovation, and pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado, where he founded the Gaming SEL Lab. He has been invited to the White House, authored several books and papers, and frequently collaborates with UNESCO MGIEP and Games for Change. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning. Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Tracy J is the creator of the Feed Your Ninjas movement, the author of How to Feed Your Ninjas children’s book and she’s currently working on an idea for a video game app that helps you, well… Feed Your Ninjas. Having overcome an autoimmune disease, she is an advocate for being in control of your own personal health. She hopes to inspire Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo Credit: Douglas Morse; Website: www.tabletopmovie.com Matt Leacock is a board game designer living in Sunnyvale, California. In 2014, he quit his day job to work on board games full time. Before that, he designed games on nights and weekends while working as a user experience designer for a number of Silicon Valley companies. He’s best known for his cooperative games, Pandemic Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Lee Sheldon is a game writer/designer, and educator. Until recently he was a professor of practice at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is author of The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game. It’s second edition was published in the spring of 2020; The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans, published in June 2021; and Character Development and Storytelling for Games, 3rd edition coming in Continue Reading →
Listen to this episode on your phone! Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash This is an entirely different episode, I’m sharing a personal/professional update in my life! Listen up if you want to find out! There are many ways to get in touch with Professor Game: Subscribe to Professor Game E-mail Newsletter LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Instagram Ask a question Looking forward to reading or hearing from you, Rob Continue Reading →
