$20.00
Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Creativity and Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1
Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: use game design and theory to maximize student engagement. All of us desire to engage in something bigger than we are—an epic mission taking us on a journey to a new place. Our students are no exception. In this course, Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., teaches you how to use gamification to solve a problem and engage your audience in new ways.
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Game designers understand how to engage an audience and keep them coming back for more. Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., brings together her love of games and her knowledge of classroom instruction to enrich your students’ learning experience. During this fast-paced course, you will apply game design and theory to lesson design.
In this course, participants will learn:
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Kari – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course for learning how to incorporate games into your class instruction. So many ideas are flowing through my brain now!
Carolyn – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This course. had some excellent ideas to improve student engagement.
Wendy – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Loved it
Alicia – CLEBURNE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good information – not only on how to include game design and game thinking into your class, but also great information on student perspectives.
Jill – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
This was an informative course with great suggestions and resources!
Becky – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
good way to organize and motivat learning
Luz – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Sarah – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to use in the classroom.
Debbie – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Good class.
Alisha – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Great presenter- easy to follow and listen to. This session is well organized and interesting.
Jon – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Zeniff – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I think this course puts things into perspective when considering creating games for students to be engaged.
Jamie – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
This course provided a lot of great ideas and reasources that are easy to implement in all classrooms.
SANDRA ANNETTE – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
I liked all of the tips and suggested resources that were given.
Debra – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
I REALLY enjoyed this course. It has me rethinking my entire classroom management, in a GOOD way. My favorite thing was the ideas to get kids motivated by having them earn points for a bigger and outside goal, such as a charity.
Michele – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with new ideas for the classroom.
Anna – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course.
Garrett – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Loved it!
Marie – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
This course was full of ideas and helpful resources to use with students to make learning more fun and engaging.
Terry – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
great ideas
Roxanna – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas for student motivation
Amanda – FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Good course that gives overview of gamification. I was impressed with the ideas and questions she brought up. It would be nice to have some follow ups that deal directly with specific subject areas.
Jenny – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –
Very useful.
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful resources
Cindy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Victoria – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
I just hate just watching the course talk
Marisa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting take on games in classroom that you might already be doing without noticing.
kelly – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great information!
Linda – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I very much enjoyed learning different gaming ways to engage students, learning & fun!
Zulema – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course was very informative and useful.
Kelli – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Good course.
Piedad – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the games and the uses in our classrooms.
Rene – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
It was different and thought provoking.
Melissa – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
This was full of useful information. I do with there was a little more nitty gritty on may 1 or 2 ways to specifically gamefy a classroom. I felt a lot of the information was theoretical.
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Mike – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I would give this course 4 stars. I believe it was well presented, but she mentioned handouts that were not available to me.
Her ideas and ways to implement them were intriguing and helpful.
Edward – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Great content for non core classes
Kristina – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great
Nora – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
The facilitator covered a lot of information in a short span of time–very practical tools that can be incorporated into instruction quickly
Amy – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this. My big takeaway was “touchpoints.
Lesa – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Great overview of Game Based Theory
Cristal – GEORGETOWN ISD (verified owner) –
I loved all the resources given.
beth – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
provided validation and new insight
Tambridge – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
The explanation of the theory was clear and easy to understand. I like that examples were laid out of how to incorporate game theory into my classes. I also like having the list of different things to try in my classroom.
Sharon – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This course was done very well. The information was clearly presented.
Matilde – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
This course encouraged me to use game techniques in my classroom. I was hesitant but, this course really simplified the idea.
Michelle – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course! I have two pages full of notes with a ton of ideas and resources.
Willie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Good Training
Elizabeth – VAN WERT CITY (verified owner) –
Love these sessions that offer so many resources for me to apply into my own class! I’ve attended multiple sessions at conferences about gamification, but Lisa still managed to introduce new resources that I’ve never seen before! I appreciate that this is tailored to all levels of students.
Penny – PLANO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course. The instructor defines gamefication and gives the viewer principles of game design, types of players, and examples of many types of games that can be incorporated in the classroom.