Our semester has ended, and we have failed to include updates regarding our last two events. So, let's catch up!
On Monday, April 18, four of us met at a local pub/restaurant to talk about how things were going adding and/or incorporating game-based learning and project-based learning ideas into our assignments or, even, our framing for classes. We also discussed how we might present our experiences at the RIT-organized
THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp).
On Friday, May 6, four of us attended the first-ever
THATCamp arranged by
RIT and held at
the Strong: National Museum of Play.
In the morning, we heard an amazing talk by Angel David Nieves.
In the afternoon, Trent and I lead sessions on game-based learning and digital tools, respectively. Trent passed around a deck of cards for each of us to select a card with a number on it. Then, moving through a list of terms on white pads/large post-its, Trent added the number that a person had drawn to a category from the list to determine its "weight" in the playfield of a game to be developed within a class. It was exciting and, even, interesting !!!, to see how a deck of cards and a list of terms could serve as the scaffold for constructing a narrative. See Trent's post
here.
Following this session, I lead a session on Wordpress and Tiki-Toki. In this session, I introduced novice users to the front end and back end of a Wordpress site (differentiation between .org and .com; themes, imagery/visuals, posts and pages, and nuances of the admin). I also shared several of our RIT Museum Studies exhibition sites developed over the past year with students in courses that I teach. Following this, I introduced the group to a web-based timeline tool that allows for awesome collaboration. See the description
here.
During the Wordpress/Tiki-Toki session I was facilitating, Trent, Ammina and Michael spoke about GBL/PBL. (I didn't attend, so I can't report on it:)
