Sysloggin' one day at a time.
By Jim
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Play Again Games : MonopolyHomeRules
Monopoly Home Rules
These optional rules may make Monopoly a whole new game for you. Please let me know if you have played any good home rules that I have not mentioned, or if you play with any of these rules tell me what you thought of them. I mark the ones I recommend.
By Jim
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Creating Passionate Users: Crash Course in Learning Summary
Here’s a PDF (500k) with a two-page summary sheet (with the graphics as icon/reminders) of the full post I made previously. Do NOT look at this until you’ve read the earlier (big) post… it’s not meant to be stand-alone.
By Jim
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Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
So, as promised in an earlier post, here’s a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design). Much of it is based around courses I designed and taught at UCLA Extension’s New Media/Entertainment Studies department. This is the long version, and my next post will be just the bullet points with the pictures–as a kind of quick visual summary.
This is not a comprehensive look at the state of learning theory today, but it does include almost everything we think about in creating our books. And although it’s geared toward blogs/writing virtually everything in here applies regardless of how you deliver the learning–you can easily adapt it to prentations, user documentation, or classroom learning. And remember, this is a BLOG, so don’t expect academic rigor ; ) but I do have references, so leave a comment if there’s something in particular you want.