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Meeting Minutes 05/29/19
Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 11:30am, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Azure Faucette, Jocelyn Figueroa, Elizabeth Mulligan, Mary Ortiz Meeting began at 11:30am. Grace welcomed everyone. Grace spoke about the game she developed, and which Mary helped her, to play […]
Meeting Minutes 5/08/19
Kingsborough Community College The City University of New York Department of Biological Sciences Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 11:30am, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, Jocelyn Figueroa, Mary Ortiz Meeting began at 11:30am. Grace welcomed everyone. Mary spoke […]
Meeting Minutes 3/27/19
Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 11:30am, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Karen Colombo, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, Azure Faucette, Jocelyn Figueroa, Elizabeth Mulligan, Mary Ortiz, Michael Ortiz, Raluca Toscano, Isaac Vicci, Joan M. Zaloom Grace welcomed everyone. There were new people so we […]
Meeting Minutes 11/28/18
Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 12:40pm, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Lilja Nielsen, Mary Ortiz, Michael Ortiz Grace announced the CUNY Games Conference V5.0 on 1/182019 at BMCC. This year it is a one-day conference. There will be workshops, a poster […]
Meeting Minutes 10/25/18
Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Wednesday, October 25, 2018, 11:30AM, KCTL Conference Room Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Michael Ortiz, Eric Conte Grace announced the CUNY Games Conference V5.0 on Jan 18, 2019, at BMCC. This year it is a one-day conference. There will be workshops, […]
Meeting Minutes 9/26/18
Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 12:40pm, M378 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Azure Faucette, Mary Ortiz Grace announced the CUNY Games Conference V5.0 on Jan 18, 2019, at BMCC. This year it is a one-day conference. There will be workshops, a poster […]
Meeting Minutes Thursday May 31, 2018 at 11:30AM
Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte (Facilitator), Mary Ortiz, and Michael Ortiz Resources: Previously gathered GBL resources can be found on CUNY Academic Commons in the Spring 2017 Folder. Michael discussed games he uses in his Sociology class. Pictionary is used to introduce basic terms in preparation for more complex lessons. Using about 15 minutes of class time. […]
Meeting Minutes from Thursday May 3, 2018 11:30AM
Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte, Elizabeth Mulligan, Nicole Beveridge Nicole shared her experiences with Team Based Learning and IF/AT cards, Trivia games using analog methods and Quizlet are also helpful in her lessons. Elizabeth shared the results of her structure/function game developed in the previous meeting. Students were engaged and enjoyed participating Game would be better […]
Meeting Minutes Thursday, March 29, 2018, 11:30AM
Participants: Grace Axler-DiPerte (Facilitator), Elizabeth Mulligan We discussed a lesson for that was a bit dry and confusing to students. Used Joe Bisz’s “Complex Mechanics” game cards to “gamify” the lesson. Card sorting was discussed of pictures for structure, and words for function relationships in biology Students can sort in teams to increase collaboration and […]
Game Development Worksheet
With plenty of inspiration from GBL resources around the Internet, I have compiled a brainstorming worksheet to help you start to structure your game or activity idea using a “backwards design” approach. Game Development Worksheet

