Lee Sheldon will give a keynote speech about designing classes as persuasive games to motivate students to learn. He will introduce using game design principles and narrative techniques rather than commercial games. He will then provide advice on pitching this approach to parents, school boards, and state standards committees. The event will include additional sessions from presenters on bringing choose your own adventure into digital formats, using virtual worlds for gamification, and designing a class as a fully realized online roleplaying game.

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Lee Sheldon is a professional game writer and designer, and an
Associate Professor in the Games and Simulation Arts and
Sciences program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Lee wrote the bestselling book The Multiplayer Classroom:
Designing Coursework as a Game (2011); his book
Character Development and Storytelling for Games
(Second Edition, 2013) is the standard text in the field.
Keynote Speaker: Lee Sheldon
Wednesday, July 30th
@ 10:30 AM MST
Topic: The Persuasion Games
Lee will introduce designing classes as games that persuade students to want to learn—not by
using commercial products or educational games—but by applying game design principles and
narrative techniques to standard curriculums and learning outcomes. He will then help you with
the hard part: honing your sales pitch to parents, school boards and state standards committees.
Sean O'Neil
Bringing Choose Your Own
Adventure Into the Digital Age
Corey Papastathis
Quest-Based Professional
Development
Enrique Cachafeiro
Using Virtual Worlds as a
Platform for Gamification in the
Classroom
Anne Lahr
Slowly I Turned, Step by Step..
Chris Haskell
Class as a Fully Realized Online RPG
Charles Forstbauer
Take Questing to the Next Level: Growing
the Teacher Clan
Mikael Hellstrom
Gamifying Political
Science: Experiences from Teaching
Socials Science in Higher Ed
Chris Luchs, Kae Novak, Lee
Ann Tysseling
Reading & Research Skills and Strategies
Developed During Gaming
1:00 PM
2:30 PM
4:00 PM
5:30 PM
10:30 AM
1:00 PM
2:30 PM
4:00 PM
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