Jane McGonigal (2007) described the collaboration superpowers that gamers and virtual world enthusiasts embody. Building on her research, I created a roleplay game for doctoral students to give them strength during their dissertation research journey (Calongne, 2014). 

Here is an excerpt from a presentation of my game that illustrations these collaboration superpowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 References

Calongne, C. (2014, January 17). The game of research. https://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/the-game-of-research

McGonigal, J. (2007, December 29). 10 collaboration superpowers. https://www.slideshare.net/avantgame/10-collaboration-superpowers

CCSC Workshop on Animated Database Courseware and Gamemaker for Game Development

Yesterday at the CCSC Rocky Mountain Conference at CTU, Dr. Mario Guimaraes led a riveting presentation of how they use the 2D game design tool Gamemaker in An Exploratory Overview of Teaching Computer Game Development. He noted that Gamemaker is available by a free download. It is easy for students to use and best for designing 2D games.

Today, his workshop on Incorporating Animation Courseware into the Teaching of Complex Database Concepts: Conference Workshop demonstrated how to integrate Flash and Java to animate the entity-relationship notations to depict various ways of learning how to model and understand a relational database design. Visit the Animated DataBase Courseware research site to experience animated instruction and the assessment of advanced database concepts.