{"id":57436,"date":"2014-02-07T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/?p=57436"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:45:27","slug":"snackable-series-gamification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2014\/02\/07\/snackable-series-gamification\/","title":{"rendered":"Snackable Series:  Gamification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Snackable Bag Spring 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/files\/2013\/12\/Snackable-Bag-Fall-2013.jpg\" width=\"92\" height=\"120\" \/><strong>Gamification, February 19 &#8211; 20, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The innovative use of technology in higher education continues to provide new possibilities for enhancing teaching and learning. \u00a0Feel free to bring a lunch and join us!<\/p>\n<p>Gamification is the application of game elements and game-like thinking to course materials to encourage active learning and deepen student engagement.\u00a0 Gamification can improve student motivation, inspire increased interactivity in your classroom, and allow you to reward successful completion of learning outcomes in new ways.\u00a0 Models of gamification, along with simple yet creative ways to add gamification techniques to your D2L course, will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Gamification Sessions:<em><br \/>\nWednesday, February 19, 2014 from Noon to 1 p.m<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 11 a.m. to Noon<\/em><br \/>\nLocation:<em>\u00a0iCIT Training Center, McGraw 112<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To register for one or all of these \u201cSnackable Series\u201d sessions, please sign up at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/signup.uww.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/signup.uww.edu<\/a>\u00a0Seating is limited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding the Snackable Series and its sessions, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ltc@uww.edu\">contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamification is the application of game elements and game-like thinking to course materials to encourage active learning and deepen student engagement.  Gamification can improve student motivation, inspire increased interactivity in your classroom, and allow you to reward successful completion of learning outcomes in new ways.  Models of gamification, along with simple yet creative ways to add gamification techniques to your D2L course, will be discussed. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2014\/02\/07\/snackable-series-gamification\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3141,14797,14795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-instructors","category-snackable-series","category-training-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2U0PY-eWo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 18:58:31","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57436\/revisions\/57437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}