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Quick article about Pokemon & learning - thought it may be of interest given our conversations about the danger of making a game part of the class and losing the fun factor. (Jerry 12/9)

Is this one added to our list of references spreadsheet? (MFY 12/9)


 * A Starting Point for Developing Theory?**

//Stephen (11/4):// Came across this today - perhaps this is a place to start for developing a theory (behavior modification/reward in games); combine that with situated cognition and social learning theory and we may have something. Check it out: **http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_chatfield_7_ways_games_reward_the_brain.html**

Mike 10-25: I have created a page called "Games and Fun" that may serve for us to write the Introduction to our collaborative manuscript. I have also continued to write on Zeus' page titled Themes of Over 200 Articles. I invite all of you to being to enter thoughts, outlines, well crafted sentences or fragments, into these pages in hopes of jump starting the crafting of some collaborative text.
 * Let the writing Begin!**

A complete list of citations was created. An excel database of citation was created. Each citation was meta-tagged describing method and topic. Each of the 9 authors selected a curricular area and identified their "top 10" citations. These citations will be read/discussed by the group.
 * Lit Review Method**

Where on Google Docs will the pdf's reside?


 * Question: Are we considering ARGs (Augmented Reality Games) in this paper? I've come across three of them so far in my continuing lit searches, and while they have game-like elements, they don't fit the same mold as the game-based learning articles we already have (they're in the same vein, but done through a very different medium). Thoughts? **


 * [done 10-19] Some suggestions for moving forward with the lit review**
 * 1) compiled (without duplicates) nearly complete... but we discussed conducting another iteration of searches after we rough-code this set.
 * 2) we divide the pool and code them for quantitative QT vs qualitative QL studies. (if there are enough quantitative ones then we code for presence of control group)
 * 3) again we divide the pool and try to meta tag them for our purposes (along the lines of my beginning coding scheme). I think we all want to code some of them (assigned by me)... with some overlap of coding to test the inter-rater agreement for the coding scheme itself.
 * 4) once all citations are coded for QT vs QL and meta-tagged, we can discuss how to proceed with our review informed by these results. We will know how man studies of each type and the kinds of studies they are (based on meta tag process).


 * [not done 10-19] A suggestion for integrating our game presentation, selected reading, and the lit review process:**

List the educational affordances given in each game presentation on the "Game Presentation Schedule" page May I suggest that as we present our games and our take on their educational affordances, that we each be sure to do a search with the game's name included, and if additional references are found, add them to our compiled "working list" of references. The may I suggest that as you each choose a selected reading to present, to do so with an eye toward your analysis of the Game you plan to present. For example, since I have chosen to present on WoW, I did that lit search, and I have chosen a paper that is based on WoW work (Chen 2009). For my paper presentation then, I have e-mail Mark Chen to join me as part of my presentation of the educational affordances of WoW. He has agreed. Note: [|Mark Chen is a doc student in Ed Tech at the University of Washington,] Seattle.


 * [New 10-19]** Provide your Top 10 list of references that we should all read and discuss, as we move into the writing phase of our collaborative work.

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 * Zeus:** //(9/18/2010)// Complete list of citations are done, Excel format downloaded. It's in the "files" section. Wasn't able to put in Masha's, because they didn't seem to be in APA format and I wasn't sure what to do with that (wouldn't alphabetize by author). Kept what formatting it would allow, more can be put in. People need to start going over the citations, and putting in what comments they need. Some of the comments were WAY too long to be functional. I'm not sure what the point is of the citations that were deemed not useful in any way. Nice to know they're not useful, but shouldn't we just get rid of those?=====

[[file:seriousgames1.xls]]

 * Stephen:** //(9/20/2010)// Added 19 additional references to the full citation list and meta-tagged them based on their content; planning on going back and tagging those I've read the abstract for but were already on the list. Zeus: Since you've already downloaded the citations into Excel, I'll save a copy of them in Word and email them to you if you want to add them instead of reloading the entire citation list from here.


 * Masha:** (09/20/2010) Zeus and others, I had all the reference list in APA format and in alpha-order on Saturday. Also, since as of Saturday the Excel document was not done, I did the same job on Saturday what you posted on Sunday (see page "References All, Duplicates were Deleted"); this list includes my references, as well. Matt also worked on his reference list on Sunday (see page "Matt's references") and I believe he added his into the whole pile (page "References All, Duplicates were Deleted").This page, however (to the best of my understanding) does not include Stephen's new 19 additional references (unless he added his list himself). **(NOTE: //(From Stephen)// Yes, the "References All, Duplicates Deleted" page includes the 19 references I added. They're tagged and placed in alphabetical order.)**


 * Matt:** (09/21/2010) I copy/pasted Zeus's spreadsheet into Google Documents and have also merged in everything in the "References All, Duplicates were Deleted" page so that it should contain all the references added up to now. I've given everyone in the class permission to edit it (check your email) and it would probably be best to work with that list from now on.