Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Three

Friday, May 6th, 2022, 1:50pm via Zoom

Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator

Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte (KCC BIO), Lilja Neilsen (KCC BIO), Mary Ortiz (KCC BIO), Tom Lavazzi (KCC ENG), Amy Haas (KCC Business)

Meeting began at 1:50pm.

1. The CUNY Games Network hosted a second, “First Fridays” Idea Exchange event immediately prior to this meeting.
   1. The next event is on June 3^rd, 2022 at noon. You can get information by joining the CUNY Games Network mailing list.  More information can be found here: https://games.commons.gc.cuny.edu/  and here: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/ .
2. We continued to work on our collaborative escape room in our privately shared google drive.
3. The discussion focused on the settings for branched decision making and giving targeted feedback to a player, based on their response using a Google Form.
4. Amy shared an Escape Room she created for her accounting class, and we worked on troubleshooting the settings so students would be sent to a particular section, or back to the main room when needed.
5. Discussion of topics for next semester include:
   1. Continuing with Escape Room Design
   2. Working on ideas for Student-Generated games for formative or summative assessments.
6. Post semester surveys were sent via email.
7. An example of an escape room generated using Google Forms and Slides can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ry2zdy
8. Meetings will resume in the Fall of 2022. Please contact Grace for more information.

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