Games » motivation http://games.populoo.com Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Rich Wilson’s Design Blog: The Burden of Choice http://games.populoo.com/2009/09/12/rich-wilsons-design-blog-the-burden-of-choice/ http://games.populoo.com/2009/09/12/rich-wilsons-design-blog-the-burden-of-choice/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:32:01 +0000 games http://games.populoo.com/2009/09/12/rich-wilsons-design-blog-the-burden-of-choice/

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]]> http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/30/whats-wrong-with-our-schools-video/feed/ 0 Handbook of competence and motivation – Google Books http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/23/handbook-of-competence-and-motivation-google-books/ http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/23/handbook-of-competence-and-motivation-google-books/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:47:12 +0000 webdesign http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/23/handbook-of-competence-and-motivation-google-books/ Contains a chapter on “Flow” by Csikszentmihalyi, Abuhamdeh and Nakamura. Very significant work in relation to the motivational qualities of games.

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Handbook of competence and motivation – Google Books

]]> http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/23/handbook-of-competence-and-motivation-google-books/feed/ 0 A Review of Theories of Player Enjoyment in Playing Computer Games – 2nd European Conference on Games http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/22/a-review-of-theories-of-player-enjoyment-in-playing-computer-games-2nd-european-conference-on-games/ http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/22/a-review-of-theories-of-player-enjoyment-in-playing-computer-games-2nd-european-conference-on-games/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:52:17 +0000 admin http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/22/a-review-of-theories-of-player-enjoyment-in-playing-computer-games-2nd-european-conference-on-games/ Elizabeth Boyle and Thomas Connolly's paper from the 2nd European Conference on Games Based Learning in Barcelona 2008. A number of theoretical perspectives are discussed.

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]]> http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/22/a-review-of-theories-of-player-enjoyment-in-playing-computer-games-2nd-european-conference-on-games/feed/ 0 Using Myst 3 for Descriptive Writing | ICT in my Classroom http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/18/using-myst-3-for-descriptive-writing-ict-in-my-classroom/ http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/18/using-myst-3-for-descriptive-writing-ict-in-my-classroom/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:28:20 +0000 games http://games.populoo.com/2009/08/18/using-myst-3-for-descriptive-writing-ict-in-my-classroom/ I love to use games in the classroom to support and inspire learning – at their best they are richly engaging and hugely motivating. This year we repeated much of the successful ways of introducing the game slowly; hooking the children into the narrative well before we switched on any computers. Myst 3 has such a rich narrative and back story this is not difficult to achieve.

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