Category: Game design

You Need To Read This: Badass – Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

Apr 25, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Game design, Good Design, Uncategorized, UX

I’m about half way through a very cool book at the moment. It’s by Kathy Sierra who is now one of my internet heroes. You can watch the book trailer above. But you should really go to Amazon and order it. Or download it. It’s about User Interface Design. Or UX. This is a kind…
How Should We Evaluate Our Training?

Apr 21, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Evaluation, Game design, Good Design, Instructional, Question, Questions, Uncategorized, UX

I’m changing how I think about course evaluation… And how everything should be evaluated. Here’s a new set of questions. Try them out for yourself after the next training session you deliver. Or attend. Or after any new experience: What did that experience enable? What can I now do? What can I now show others? What will…
Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning

Jul 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Anxiety caused by learning, Creativity, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Flipped, Free, Game design, Games, Learning, Life, Online learning, Personal development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, Uncategorized

Well, the title’s probably an exaggeration… but I’ve taken up playing Minecraft lately. With my 4 year old son. And it’s a great learning curve. On learning to learn. Both of my girls are serious Minecrafters. One is 13 and the other is 9. They’ve been addicts for a while. I’ve remained aloof. Until recently.…
Tutoropoly: A Board Game to Transform Your Teaching

Jan 15, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Game design, Games, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Professional Development, Uncategorized

You and your colleagues are highly skilled members of an expert teaching team waging a battle against low literacy and numeracy levels in a context of low productivity, historical educational failure and increasing technological complexity. Your team will work across organisations, inside classrooms, and directly with learners to stem the rising tide of poor educational…
Pandemic: Cooperative Board Game Analogue

Jan 15, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Game design, Games, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

If you’re following my post about the cooperative board game I want to create to teach principles of adult teaching and learning with a focus on embedding literacy and numeracy, you’ll remember that I mentioned another board game that I’m using as my model. It’s called Pandemic. You can order it from Amazon or read…
Cooperative board game design for teaching principles of adult literacy and numeracy

Jan 10, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Game design, Games, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Uncategorized

One project that I’ve been thinking about for a while and that I’d like to work on this year is a board game for teaching principles of adult literacy and numeracy teaching. The basic idea is something like this: It would be a cooperative game where the players work together against the game. Players would…

Category: Game design

You Need To Read This: Badass – Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

How Should We Evaluate Our Training?

Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning

Tutoropoly: A Board Game to Transform Your Teaching

Pandemic: Cooperative Board Game Analogue

Cooperative board game design for teaching principles of adult literacy and numeracy