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Making an impact with Educational Stories
Although I have no experience of being a teacher, if there’s one thing that I do know, it’s enjoying a good engaging story, especially when there is a lesson to be learned from the events […]
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Once Upon a Webinar
Once upon a time, an engineer ‘Nour’ from the future was faced by a huge challenge where the air pollution forced humans to stay home as the air became no more breathable. As an engineer […]
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Focus on… Narrative Structures
Three commonly used narrative structives, including the story of Joseph Campbells life, told using the narrative structure he discovered, The Hero’s Journey […]
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Touchstone Template Download
Download of the Touchstone Template referenced in the article Focus on… Narrative Structures containing diagram and questions to create your own story. […]
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Wagon Wheel Template Download
Download of the Wagon Wheel Template referenced in July’s issue of the Magazine. A word document containing diagram and questions to create your own story. […]
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Hero’s Journey Template Download
Download of the Hero’s Journey Template from the article Focus on… Narrative Structures containing diagram and questions to create your own Hero’s Journey. […]
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Review – Coursera’s Futures Thinking Specialisation
The tools are easily and immediately applicable to work and life. Although this learning is about the future, the skills it teaches are applicable immediately […]
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Focus on… Zoom Games for Learning
A ‘Zoom Game’ is a game which is designed to be run for a group of people, who will play it while meeting through the video-conferencing platform Zoom. […]
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Building Wellbeing, One Brick at a Time
I don’t know about you but I felt inundated with challenges during lockdown; 30 day fitness challenges, social media challenges, learn a skill, become fluent in another language. It’s been exhausting just reading them. Coping […]
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Five Ways to Design Collaborative Games
In a previous article for Ludogogy, I explored why it’s important that not all learning games are competitive, especially when teambuilding is a key aim. But If we don’t have that simple crutch to reach […]
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THE REMOTE FRAMEWORK: Guide to Remote Working
Turbulent times for engagementThe world is going through turbulent times. We are all busy adjusting to unprecedented realities. Companies worldwide have had to readjust to at least one aspect of this ‘new ‘normal’: many of […]
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Changing a classic board game to online: A look behind the scenes
As we believe in the power of play, one of our approaches in order to develop teams is to set learning arenas built by our Serious Games. The last month’s “Lord McGroundwork’s Shipyard”, our new […]
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The next big thing: paper planes and bits
Formal education kills team work. Alright, I hope that got your attention. Now let me share my experience with designing serious games to teach students at the University of Economics Krakow (UEK) 21st Century skills […]
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Musings on Developing Games Featuring Teamwork
For as long as games have been played, having to work with others as part of a team in order to winhas been a well-established norm when it comes to games and as someone who […]
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Online Meetings Effective? 11 Tactics for Gamifying your Next Zoom Meeting
While online meetings are a great opportunity for organisations to maintain communication and productivity, great challenges await! […]