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Turning Art Class into a Creative MMORPG with Mike Skocko

Ivan Kuo12 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Be sure to catch our next episode next Thursday, September 26 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we will feature the best and brightest in engagement.

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In this review, we feature Mike Skocko, a visual-arts educator at Valhalla High School in California. We had first heard of Mike through an esteemed recommendation from Adobe’s Tacy Trowbridge on Mike’s awesome gamification initiatives. Listen to Mike’s story below to learn about the questing system he adopted into his visual-art class to deliver curriculum in an interesting way.

This is a great conversation about a real-life teacher using effective game mechanics in the classroom. Watch Mike’s full interview below.

 



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Tacy Trowbridge on Adobe’s Education Exchange and Promoting Creativity

Ivan Kuo12 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts. This week’s guest was Tacy Trowbridge, Head of Education Programs at Adobe.

Be sure to catch our next episode this Thursday, August 22 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we feature Nicole Lazzaro, creator of Tilt World and president of XEODesign Inc.

Remember you can participate in the show if you sign-in and RSVP! Signing in will allow you to receive show reminders, ask questions, and even join Gabe and our guest for a live question.

In this week’s episode, Gabe and Tacy share some of Adobe’s education programs to see how they’re getting kids to become more creative and the resources they’re offering for educators and students. You’ll learn about Adobe’s Education Exchange, Tacy’s approach to motivating students in education, and a spirited user-chat about gamification user-experience. Watch the full talk below:



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How Adobe is Gamifying Learning with Tacy Trowbridge

Ivan Kuo01 mins

Did you know Adobe has been working with gamification for awhile now? I’ve heard of their first venture into gamified learning when they introduced LevelUp to help new Photoshop users learn the ropes.  At GSummit 2013, Tacy Trowbridge took the stage to tell us about all the new gamification initiatives Adobe has been working on to unlock creativity in children.

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Be sure to also catch Tacy as she appears on our weekly Gamification Revolution webseries as our guest speaker on August 15, 1 PM ET. Sign in and RSVP to join the chat and ask questions!

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GCo’s Picks: Games for Training Skills at GSummit 2013

Sudarshan Gopaladesikan05 mins

Adobe and Delta Air Lines both use gamification to drive engagement with their products, which in turn produces a kind of learning and subsequent new behavior for the engaged users. Learning is taking place in this regard but Adobe and Delta have managed to use gamification for an even higher level of learning.

Rather than creating general classes for learning, Adobe and Delta have successfully been able to use games to train people for tasks they want to accomplish and they will both be represented at GSummit 2013 to discuss their training games.

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