This past weekend was the TLT Symposium. I was disappointed that I missed most of the event. My daughter’s second birthday party fell on the same day. I’m going to have to check out Jane’s keynote. I was looking forward to that event more than any other this year.
I missed a lot more than Jane’s presentation however. I had the privilege of working on two of the planning committees: the Program Team and the Gamification Team.
I was able to make one of the sessions that I had volunteered for. I spent the last session in the Arcade (room 218) talking with faculty and staff about getting traction with their ideas. While I was there I spoke with:
- Larry Ragan & Drew
- Lori Shontz
- Susana Garcia Prudencio
- Shivaani Aruna Selvaraj and Chris Stubbs
I definitely want to check back with Lori and Susana about some of their ideas and help them with their next steps. Lori was talking about lower levels of participation in her blended offering of COMM 260W course. Susana was interested in games that would help strengthen vocabulary games for SPAN 001-003.
There’s a lot happening and I can imagine that the Educational Gaming Commons is keeping pretty busy these days. I was talking with Ravi and we came up with some great ideas around creating a crowd-sourcing resource that would help people with ideas get their projects implemented. This web-based resource would match people with certain skills to specific needs of different projects. For example, I might indicated that I had certain competencies with instructional design, project management, and intermediate multimedia development. The website would send me emails when certain projects needed certain forms of support at specific stages. I could choose to pitch in for as much or as little as I was able to. After the project was finished, Ravi had a great idea that everyone involved in the project could get together and reflect. I was just thinking it would be a great time to celebrate as well! We don’t celebrate completed projects enough around PSU it seems… so busy with what’s next 🙂