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The GBL FIG Goes to the CUNY Games Conference 4.0

At this year’s CUNY Games Conference we were able to share our experiences across two semesters of our Faculty Interest Group.  

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11-06-2017 Meeting Minutes

Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Meeting Monday, November 6, 2017, 12:40pm, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator   Participants:    Grace Axler-DiPerte, Mary Ortiz Grace welcomed all to the meeting. Grace brought Pictionary, and we discussed ways to modify the game to adapt it for our classes. Mary brought the math version […]

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09-27-17 Meeting Minutes

Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from First Meeting Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 1:50pm, M357 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator   Participants:    Grace Axler-DiPerte, Mary Ortiz   Grace did a welcome and spoke of a game she did via a BIO11 (A&P1) lab activity in the lab manual, “Which organ doesn’t belong in […]

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10-16-17 Meeting Minutes

  Participants:    Grace Axler-DiPerte, Keston Boyce, Tian Cai, Devin Camenares, Mary Ortiz Grace welcomed all and discussed the purpose of the meeting – to pool resources, learn how to use games in the classroom. Grace discussed how this FIG came about – she and Mary wanted to create a metabolism game for use in microbiology. […]

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Meeting Minutes 5-25-17

Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Third Meeting Thursday, May 25, 2017, 12:40pm, M378 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator   Participants:    Grace Axler-DiPerte, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, Mary Ortiz, Shoshana Marcus We will continue this FIG on GBL in the Fall (2017). In the Fall we will take a different game format (ex. cards, […]

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Meeting Minutes 4-27-2017

Kingsborough Community College The City University of New York   Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from Second Meeting Thursday, April 27, 2017, 12:40pm, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator   Participants:    Grace Axler-DiPerte, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, Janine Graziano-King, Mary Ortiz, Dawn Taitt Grace reviewed what this FIG is about – using educational games […]

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Meeting Minutes 3-30-2017

Kingsborough Community College The City University of New York   Game Based Learning (GBL) Faculty Interest Group (FIG) – Notes from First Meeting Thursday, March 30, 2017, 12:40pm, M391 Grace Axler-DiPerte, Facilitator   Participants:    Grace Axler-DiPerte, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, Mimi Fierle, Janine Graziano-King, Mary Ortiz, Shoshanna Marcus   Grace gave background on how this GBL FIG […]

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Game Based Learning Resources to Explore

Background and Strategies Gamification vs. Game-Based Learning http://www.gamification.co/2012/01/13/gamification-vs-game-based-learning-in-education/ An article that reviews the difference between these two terms. This FIG focuses on the use of “serious games”, not necessarily “gamification” which incentivizes and provides feedback to students as if the entire course was a game.   The CUNY Games Network on CUNY Academic Commons: https://games.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ […]

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