This past weekend Natasha Singer at the New York Times tried her hand at summarizing Gamification in a short form piece. Setting aside the obvious fact that to cover an industry as broad, big and rapidly growing as ours is tough at best, the lack of common sense in the piece is glaring. My favorite [...]
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February 7th, 2012 
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Gamification Internship Available – Come Play with Us!
December 15th, 2011 Kevin Shane We’re on a treasure hunt for the top potential gamification interns in NYC. Gamification is the process of using game mechanics and game thinking to engage users and to solve problems. Our role in this world involves our blog blog at gamification.co, a big conference called GSummit, global local meetups called GSummitX, and creative consulting. [...]
NYC is Winning with Gamification
December 9th, 2011 Kevin Shane Awesome attendees and super engagement were the themes of the night at the first GSummitX meetup in NYC on November 30 at AOL Headquarters. When you put 45 people in a room, most of them strangers to one another, the level of engagement is generally networkish-y, but we got beyond and leveled up with this [...]
Posted in Gamification, GSummit Tags: Ben Young, bunchball, Eve Martinez, gabe Zichermann, gamification summit, gsummit, gsummitx, Kevin Shane, New York, Nexercise, NYC, recycling, Xcela Mobile No Comments »Op-Ed: New Generation of Games Can Motivate with Fun and Fame, Not Guilt and Shame
October 3rd, 2011 Anthony Zolezzi While I’m accustomed to speaking before large groups, I must admit to being a bit more nervous than usual as it came time for me to give a little talk as a panel member at the Gamification Summit. Still, I guess that was only natural, since most of the people in the audience were about [...]
Posted in Gamification, GSummit Tags: Anthony Zolezzi, education, environment, Greenopolis, recycling 1 Comment »GSummit Slides Released
September 22nd, 2011 admin A week ago, today, we kicked off our second Gamification Summit in New York. The results have been awesome, and for those of you who were unable to attend, we are releasing the slides from the conference and also be sure to check out the live blog for a recap off all of the events. [...]
Posted in Events, GSummit Tags: Aaron Forth, Gamification, gamification summit, gsummit, Kevin Richardson, Lithium, Michael Wu, mint, slidedeck 2 Comments »
GSummit NYC Wrap Up
September 21st, 2011 Joselin Linder As the GSummit NYC came to a close in the main theater, the Gamification Workshop continued into the afternoon. Delegates, abuzz with all the many new ideas they had acquired, seemed to leave the Museum of Jewish Heritage with a renewed vigor and palpable excitement. For those of you who missed the liveblog, read on [...]
Posted in GSummit, Uncategorized Tags: education games, games, Gamification, gsummit, teaching though games 2 Comments »
A Teachable Moment
September 20th, 2011 GabeZ Last week marked the Gamification Summit in New York. Over two days, nearly 400 brand, startup, non-profit, academic and agency folks gathered in downtown Manhattan to hear extraordinary educators, professors, executives and designers share their expertise about this growing field. As an emblem of our growing industry – one that Gartner group projects will account [...]
Posted in Gamification, GSummit Tags: Gamification By Design, gsummit, Sebastian Deterding 16 Comments »Learning to Love Fun Again: Education & Training the Gamified Way
September 16th, 2011 Joselin Linder Moderator Dan Samuelson of Pearson leads panelists, NT Etuk of DimensionU, David Park of Beat the GMAT, Matt Shobe of BigDoor,Anthony Zolezzi of Greenopolis, and Mike Fulkerson of Rosetta Stone in a talk about the ways games can be used more effectively to promote education – and actually teach our children better than ever. Samuelson [...]
Posted in GSummit Tags: classroom reform, education, education reform, fun, Gamification 1 Comment »An Inspirational Teacher’s Story of Making Learning Fun
September 16th, 2011 Joselin Linder Ananth Pai, a teacher who is transforming the way our children learn, is here to talk about how he went from a globetrotting exec to elementary school teacher extraordinaire! He asks us all, with urgency in his voice to “Become a drug pusher in schools—we need it.” He laughs. What he means is that we [...]
Posted in GSummit Tags: Ananth Pai, drillhead, education, game design, gamification in education, learning 12 Comments »Mozilla Open Badges: Recognition for all Types of Learning and Real Results
September 16th, 2011 Joselin Linder Brian Brennan of Mozilla reveals their amazing new Open Badge Infrastructure with a demo. He asks, How do you share and issue badges? You require criteria and evidence. You have to know when it was issued and what it was for. Mozilla has developed a tool that combines these things. He reveals the web “backpack” [...]
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