As we move into our next installment of GSummit (June 10-13 in San Francisco), we look at some of our speakers and experts that have helped shape the gamification & user engagement space. This week’s Spotlight Expert is Andrea Kuszewski (@AndreaKuszewski) — Researcher & Manager, Scientific Vortex Group. Andrea has been one of our top rated speakers at GSummit multiple…
In late 2013, Gabe traveled to 12 cities worldwide for GSummit Global, a series of full-day workshops and meetups to bring GSummit closer to gamification fans. As a part of GSummit Global, we also released 10 new webinars and videos by gamification and engagement professionals. We will be releasing them publicly as we keep counting down to GSummit 2014.
Adam Penenberg is a journalism professor at New York University, author of “Play At Work” and editor of PandoDaily, and in this seminar he talks about examples of games in non-game activities from historic methods of teaching human anatomy to modern companies gamifying training.
Jane McGonigals opened the 11th annual Games For Change Festival in New York by talking on what the social good organization will be celebrating 10 years from now.
It all started in June 2004. This was the very first Games for Change Festival ever, it was held at New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. The goal? To investigate whether or not games could become serious games, ones that could be used for educational purposes and to inspire social change. Unfortunately only forty-two people attended…
However, this year’s Games for Change Festival will prove just how strong this movement has become. It has been projected that more than 800 people have attended in-person and an additional 10,000 people will have attended the event through streaming this past week. The festival also nabbed a great ally in their quest for social good by partnering with the Tribeca Film Festival for this year’s event.
Since our latest announcements, including Neil deGrasse Tyson as keynote, we decided to revise our Top 10 Reasons to Attend GSummit 2014 this June 10-13 in San Francisco. Please feel free to share this infograph and remember to use hashtag #GSummit when tweeting.
Lab Excels at ‘Serious Game’ Development Games in education are a new trend and prove that it is very possible to make learning fun. Games can help the player learn and retain important information. While there are many examples of educational games, here is a college which specializes in the development of innovative and unique research-based…
For the past decades, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been at the forefront of teaching science to the masses. His singular achievement has been to make the impossible, accessible – and the complex, understandable for millions. In the course of doing this, he’s learned a thing or two about how to teach the hard…
Dr. BJ Fogg of Stanford University will be offering his highly sought-after Masterclass in Behavior Design (workshop) + a Keynote talk in which he’ll be sharing new breakthroughs in behavior change directly from his lab for the first time. With behavior change and engagement as a top priority for every business’s strategy, this is a…
Face-Off for Social Good Game mechanics and marketing are being put to use in a revolutionary format that leverages the excitement of a bracket-style tournament to raise awareness and funds for nonprofits. Each March for the past two years, Brackets For Good has hosted a tournament for nonprofits to participate in, at no cost. Picture…
When Brenda Brathwaite Romero’s 7-year old daughter came home talking about the Middle Passage, she clearly didn’t understand its significance to American and black history. Instead, she thought of those slaves as going on a cruise. Romero needed her to understand the truth.
As a long-time game designer, Romero (then Brathwaite) gathered together some game pieces and 3 x 5 cards and on the spot created a prototype for a game she called The New World. By the time she and her daughter were done playing the game, they were both crying. The historical events impacted them in a new way. Not only did they understand the facts, they began to gain a deeper respect and empathy for those players of history.
Read and share this infograph on why you can’t afford to miss out on this year’s GSummit!
As we move into our next installment of GSummit (June 10-13 in San Francisco), we look at our past GSummit speakers and experts that have helped shape the user engagement space. This week’s spotlight Gamification Expert is Kevin Werbach–Associate Professor at The Wharton School at UPenn and teacher in the massively successful online Gamification Class on…
With the consistently sold-out success of our Certification Workshops at GSummit each year, we decided to add a workshop experience to the regular conference agenda FOR ALL ATTENDEES to participate it. We call them Hands-on Labs and they’re going to be one of the best aspects of this year’s event–guaranteed! Each of the 90-minute Labs will offer a limited group…
This year, the campaign for UNICEF’s Tap Project is challenging us to set our phones aside for a few minutes in exchange for a clean water donation. Just to give you an idea of the challenge: spending a mere 10 minutes away from your phone provides a full day of clean water to a child in need. The longer you go, the more water is donated.
“Some of us can’t go for more than a few minutes without checking our cell phones. Imagine what it’s like to go days—or longer—without safe drinking water” says Caryl Stern, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
