Gamification

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19 - Phrasal Verbs for Romantic Relationships

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In this week's podcast I am going to talk about gamification.

Weekly Podcast: Gamification

This week we discuss the UX and Instructional Design potential of Gone Home, 2013’s 12th highest rated PC game on MetaCritic and the 2014 Games for Change Game of the Year. It’s also an excellent walking simulator. 

Gone Home is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Links mentioned in this episode:

An Application of Bloom’s Taxonomy to the Teaching of Business Ethics: 
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00383217

This American Life Episode 584: For Your Reconsideration: 
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/584/transcript

Testing Theories of Attitude Change With Online Panel Field Experiments: 
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/gsb-cmis/gsb-cmis-download-auth/414056

GDC 2014: Why is Gone Home a Game?: 
http://evt.dispeak.com/ubm/gdc/sf14/player.html?xml=201403825919_SPTZ.xml&token=3c6c000ab0766078310c 

The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman: 
http://www.jnd.org/books/design-of-everyday-things-revised.html 


Episode 02 - Gone Home

In a smaller “lockpick" episode, we take a look at the new awkwardly named game Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n. The game (available for iOS and Android) pretends to be a messaging app like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. 

Set in the world of the TV show Mr. Robot, you take on the role of a hacker specializing in social engineering. It’s a choose your own adventure style experience where you decide whether and how to blackmail and coerce your way into systems. 

Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n serves as an interesting exploration into how chatbots or other text interfaces might be useful in training and experiential learning.

Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n is $2.99, available for both iOS and Android:
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mr.-robot-1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa/id1138484918?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.telltalegames.exfiltration&hl=en

Links and things mentioned in this episode:

Mr. Robot: http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot
ARGs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
The Beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(game)
I Love Bees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees
Pumpkin Spice Latte chatbot: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/29/12693096/starbucks-pumpkin-spice-latte-chat-bot-facebook-messenger
Amazon Echo: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Bluetooth-Speaker-with-WiFi-Alexa/dp/B00X4WHP5E
First Principles of Instruction, M.D. Merrill: http://www.mdavidmerrill.com/Papers/firstprinciplesbymerrill.pdf
Slack: https://slack.com/
Cognitive Load - NNG: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/minimize-cognitive-load/ 

Episode 03: Experiential Learning and Text-Based Training in Mr Robot: Exfiltration

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Day of the Dead Vocabulary - A. J. Hoge

In this English lesson, you're going to learn 52 commonly used phrasal verbs. You're going to do this by watching a typical day in the life of my friend, Dave. Watch the video and see the list of the phrasal verbs below.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvtm9KngQ8
Learn on my website: https://www.tofluency.com/52-phrasal-verbs/

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English fluency book:
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More Phrasal Verb Lessons:
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Methods I recommend you follow for English fluency:
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*** The 52 Phrasal Verbs ***

Dave’s alarm goes off at 4:30
As soon as he gets up
He turns on the coffee machine
He’s run out of cream
It is time to work out
If they work out in the morning…
He sets off on his 20-mile run
Breathing in the ocean air
As he runs along the oceanfront
He’s running out of energy
He doesn’t give up
He bangs out 100 push-ups
Turns on the shower
Jumps in
Dries himself off
He opens up his computer
Logs into his emails
He turns down 5
He has to iron out a few details
He looks up flights to New York
He doesn’t have time to shop around
He fills out the form
It’s time to get on with writing his presentation
He doesn’t want to put this off until next week
He gave them up a few years ago
He warms up leftover pasta
He digs in
The afternoon is dragging on a bit
He adds in a little
He spends the rest of the afternoon finishing up his presentation
It’s now time to chill out for the rest of the evening
To see if she wants to hang out
He heads out just before 5 and sets off for his friend's house
He’s looking forward to catching up
They grew up together
He’s worried about them growing apart
He pops in for a few minutes
They decide to eat out
So they head out to this new exciting restaurant
He wolfs them down
Sarah only picks at them
They then go through the menu again
And pick out a main meal to share
Sarah then knocks back a couple of very expensive cocktails
He’s trying to cut back on alcohol during the week
They actually run into an old friend from school
They decide to stay out a little bit longer
Dave drops Sarah off at home
He has enough time to write down what he has learned that day
He then turns off the lights
Gets into bed
And passes out immediately

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