I reviewed the Webinar titled “Gamification: is it Edu-tainment or a Genuine Opportunity to Engage Learners?” By Brian Knudson of Noggin labs. Gamification of Learning high lights – What The webinar started by a brilliant experiment with those who signed up for the webinar and shared the results of the game. The webinar covered two broad categories of gaming types: simulations and social games. In this paper I was drawn to the first category‚ simulations because of its broad existence and usability
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Journal Review 11/11/10 KINS 4813 James Bowen If Only She Would Play? The Impact of Sports Participation on Self-Esteem‚ School Adjustment‚ and Substance Use Among Rural and Urban African American Girls. Reference: Taylor‚ M.‚ & Turek‚ G. (2010). If Only She Would Play? The Impact of Sports Participation on Self-Esteem‚ School Adjustment‚ and Substance Use among Rural and Urban African American Girls. Journal of Sport Behavior‚ 33(3)‚ 315-336. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete
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Chapter 2. Question 4. How would you measure risk of being a victim? I would measure the risk of being a victim by incorporating the NCVS summary findings for 2009. This survey gives me a broad range of information to use to minimize the risk of being a victim of a crime. It gives us great information such as the following: 1. Gender: men are a little more being victimized then women. 2. Reporting: almost half of the crimes were only reported to police. 3. Race: the highest with 27% for 1000 persons
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It is the final play of the game‚ as the Spartans are one play away of advancing to the playoffs. The quarterback drops back he looks for an open receiver; he finds one‚ he releases the ball. The crowd watches in awe. As the ball drops into the receivers hands and he tip-toes into the end-zone for the game winning touchdown. It is these situations in a game that make me love football. Most people know what football is‚ but many do not know how it is played. Today I will be breaking down the game
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Role of play in child development. Erikson states that play is a diagnostic tool that tells us about the child‚ he also believes that two of the major functions are to resolve problems‚ and creative expression. Piaget‚s 4 stages of cognitive development are Sensorimotor 0-2 where children begin to act intentionally‚ for example knocks a mobile. Pre-operational 2 – 7 classifies objects by a single feature‚ for example groups together the same colour building blocks. Concerete operational
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1. How you implemented your specific objectives into your daily life/routine. • Instead of just focusing running‚ I have expended to walking around the local parks. • I have also included cross-training‚ which involves running up and down hills 2. What you specifically did each day to overcome your barriers. • Self-defeating barrier: Which being difficult‚ I decided that I needed to re-educate myself on the benefits of running. • Overambitious goals: Setting a pace that was more comfortable for
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The Analysis of Two audiences‚ One Objective Strategies on SawasdeeVR.com Vorapoj Songcharoen Bangkok University Abstract SawasdeeVR .com is a free Thailand virtual destination panoramic contents service provider. The website aims to promote Thailand tourisms with interactive virtual scene. As a name çSawasdeeé is a Thai word for greeting‚ and VR is short word of Virtual Reality. Since this initial technology based on Apple QuickTime Virtual Reality technology (QTVR)‚ itûs original idea
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The presentation that Teala did on the search for his family history was very impressive. Most people do not realize the amount of money that is involved in this type of Bobbie; just sending out one day analysis from one website could cost up to three to four thousand dollars or possibly even more. Then people also need to take into consideration that it is not just their Dana samples that they need to send into these sites‚ it is also the other person that they are testing for‚ so that can become
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am going to describe the value of formal and informal performance assessments within ***** and identify ways that will ensure that it is a fair and objective process. Following this I will highlight the factors that influence how people behave in the workplace‚ and how I would apply a recognised theory of motivation to my team‚ to improve their performance. I will explain why feedback is important to improve communication and the performance in my team and compare the effectiveness of different types
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1. I would describe Stephen King as a rebellious teenager. He was not a typical nerd in high school. He wrote sarcastic newspaper to criticize teachers and showed it around the school. Eventually‚ he got into trouble because one teacher saw it and decided it was offensive. King was also very talented as a teenager. His teacher John Gould discovered him and tutored him. 2. John taught King about good writing is explaining things with necessary words. John told King that most of his writing was good
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