As many others I’ve been reading and wondering about gamification lately. I have added some game elements to my Moodle Math 8 course to see what my students thought. As they are interested I started looking for easier ways that I could add more game elements to my math class. I found this amazing resource on the Adobe Teacher Exchange. Basically the teacher, with the help of students, has created a gamification system. This system uses buddypress and a number of other plugins to create a Quest based gamefied site.
I spent a good part of my free time today setting the blog up adding and activating the plugins. Although there have been some valid concerns about the use of game mechanics in the classroom I want to see how the students react to it. The next step will be to better understand how it all actually comes together then begin thinking about how it will all fit with classes this fall.