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APRIL 16, 2012

TODAY”S TOUR STOP: April 17: Gamification Facebook Page The stop includes a link to the first chapter of the book. The blog book tour is a virtual tour so you can just follow along stop by stop. And a Facebook page for the tour , stop by and give it a LIKE:). And a Facebook page for the tour , stop by and give it a LIKE:).

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JUNE 30, 2010

By all accounts, the Learning in 3D Blog Book Tour was a resounding success. Here are some highlights, look for a Blog Book Tour Lesson's Learned posting in the near future. Tom Haskins of the Growing, Changing, Learning, Creating blog wrote a great entry Assessing blog book tours where he explains why blog book tours are so effective.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Social and Student Success View more presentations from kkapp. Create a Vibrant Learning Community --A social networking and learning really starts and stops with the concept of Community. Using Social Media to Track the Nation's Mood --what Tweets have to say about our mood. Tags: social media.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

It has become a user-generated, centralized index of all things R&D across Pfizer's worldwide organization including people, projects, events, blogs, and discussion groups. enterprise_2.0 ) In the future…Pfizer plans to launch Pfacebook—a social networking site modeled after Facebook. as shown in the slideshow below.)

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I'll answer the questions here since I think they reflect concerns that many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. 1) Kids use these “places” like Second Life, Facebook, etc. mostly for socializing. Kids mostly use these tools for social reasons. I have to agree.

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DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lately there has been a lot of buzz about using Social Networking software and techniques in organizations. I've written about a number of uses: Social Networking Not Corporate Enough for Your Company? A Pharmaceutical Leveraging Web 2.0 --In a Big Way I have recently, given a presentation on the topic.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This week, the final week of the blog book tour, we had some impressive comments and thoughts about the book and the meaning of 3D in terms of learning and development. Recap of Blog Stops Day Twenty-Six Chris Brannigan at Thinking Worlds blog wrote a post titled Learning in 3D - walking the walk #lrn3d.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The blog book tour for The Gamification of Learning and Instruction has come to an end. On the Forbes blog, Jeanne Meister ( Future Workplace ) provides examples of companies using games for learning in her article Gamification: Three Ways To Use Gaming For Recruiting, Training, and Health & Wellness.

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APRIL 16, 2012

We have just started an exciting blog book tour as ASTD and I venture on a 25 stop blog book tour for the ASTD co-published book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. The blog book tour is a virtual tour so you can just follow along stop by stop.

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APRIL 21, 2012

The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy. She felt that in an industry where knowledge is valued that withholding knowledge to shape behavior or action was wrong. billion in the next ten years.

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MAY 22, 2012

TODAY’S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP:May 22: Bruce Walsh Can video games help us learn? Also, don’t for get the Facebook page for the book. Stops for Week Six. May 21:Bruce Walsh Games Teach! Encore stop from last week. May 22: Can video games help us learn?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

(Source is Technorati) Self-expression and sharing expertise are the primary motivations for bloggers, and 70% of all respondents stated that personal satisfaction is a way they measure the success of their blog. Among Pros, however, the leading metric of success is the number of unique visitors.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

capabilities of wikis or blogs where changes, updates and additions are easily made to web sites without the contributor needing to know HTML or any programming language. Another important element of a metaverse is the social networking capability. This is similar to the Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Here are the great stops for week 5 of the blog book tour. And, join us on Facebook at the Learning in 3D page. Tour Stops Day Twenty-One 02/08/10 John Rice at the Educational Games Research blog. Also, follow the tour on Twitter with hashtag #lrn3d. We are trying to hit 200 fans by the end of the week. Can you help?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Here are the great stops for week 4 of the blog book tour. And, join us on Facebook at the Learning in 3D page. Tour Stops Day Sixteen 02/01/10 Gordon Snyder's blog Information & Communications Technology Blog Day Seventeen 02/02/10 Koreen Olbrich's Learning in Tandem Day Eighteen 02/03/10 Bart Pursel at Virtual Learning Worlds.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Today is the beginning of a 30+ stop blog book tour. During the Blog Book tour, I will be not be posting on Kapp Notes, instead, I will be posting on the blogs which are listed below. During the tour, the participating blogs will post interviews, stories, reactions, insights, related stories and even reviews of Learning in 3D.

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MARCH 5, 2010

Week Seven was not an official week in the blog book tour but we still had a good amount of buzz concerning the book. Gordon Snyder who writes Gordon's Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog posted a video from keynote event I did in January in San Francisco about virtual worlds and technology-based learning.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The other day someone emailed me with a question of how to get social media usage going in an organization. Here are a few suggestions, First, I often “seed&# the use of a social networking tool with a basic question like “What do you think [this tool] can do for us?&#

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JANUARY 24, 2010

Week two of the blog book tour was hectic. We also announced the first two winners of the Twitter #lrn3d hashtag award, finally got a badge for tour stops and a number of blogsophere folks commented on the tour on their blogs. If you missed last week's blog book tour recap, here it is. Here is the recap for week 2.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Recap of Blog Stops Day Twenty-One John Rice at the Educational Games Research blog wrote a post titled New 3D Learning Book by Karl Kapp. Recap of all the tour stops so far: Blog Book Tour Recap Week One: Awesome! Blog Book Tour Recap Week Two: Fabulous!!

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MAY 22, 2012

TODAY’S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP: May 24: Webinar event with Dan Bliton who challenges attendees to the game “Are you smarter than Karl Kapp” Dan Bliton will be hosting the game and conducting an interview with me on the 24th of May during BAH open webinar at 1:00 ET. Also, don’t for get the Facebook page for the book.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

But first we have to get over misconceptions about Social Media. This image is taken directly from Facebook and is the image many faculty have when someone mentions Facebook. But Facebook , LinkedIn , Ning and IntroNetworks are all great tools for having academically focused learning communities in an online setting.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

Tuesday: 01/19/10 Mark Viquesney at the TechSpectives Blog which is an online community dedicated to the latest topics in technology and education. Thursday: 01/21/10 Brent Schlenker's blog Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development. Monday: 01/18/10 Jane Bozarth at The Bozarth Zone.

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JUNE 10, 2010

And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs. A sudden rise in job-oriented social networking (particularly reconnecting with ex-Lab staffers), a sudden burst of recommendations and references, and so forth. While this has not been totally verified by dozens of data sources.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

The first week of the Learning in 3D Blog Book Tour is over and it qualifies as a smashing success. Later in the week, Ron posted with an interesting title Learning in 3D Book Tour: 30 Blogs in 30 Days. The stop drew a comment from future tour participant Jane Bozarth from the Bozarthzone blog.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Jane's book taught be about Twaitter and gave me some new ideas about using Facebook.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

Facebook Page on Gamification of Learning and Instruction. Facebook Gamification Page. Blog Posts of Interest. Here are the resources from my presentation. Opening Slides. Short Explanation of Gamification. Pinterest Page on Gamification Happenings. Gamification Happenings. Polling Software. Poll EveryWhere.

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Resources Poll Gamification Social Networks 172

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

And this year we’re going to run the nominations for each category just the same as we did last year :) In order to nominate blogs for the 2009 Edublog Awards you have to link to them first! For information on how to nominate a blog for The Edublog awards, go to the following link and be heard! Now into its 6th year!

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APRIL 26, 2010

But the most organized book club that I know of today was started by Hans de Zwart of Amsterdam on his blog Technology as a Solution. On his blog, he posted an entry called Learning in 3D: Please Join My Reading Group where is asked for participants in a virtual reading group. So how will this work? The book club is under way.

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Social Networks Delicious Technology Summary 100

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Jane's book taught be about Twaitter and gave me some new ideas about using Facebook.

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Social Media Media Google Wave Ideas 185

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MARCH 14, 2008

They are connected to every friend they've ever made through social networking sites like facebook and MySpace. At the small venue conference, Nadira spoke about a number of interesting characteristics and expectations of Generation Y. Nadira and I pose for the camera.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

A while back I posted on Facebook that LMSs were prisons for content because they tended to keep content inaccessible and unavailable for quick easy access. Well now their is a new kind of LMS that uses a Facebook type interface to conduct academic business. It’s called CourseKit. CourseKit instructor page.

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APRIL 21, 2012

The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy. She felt that in an industry where knowledge is valued that withholding knowledge to shape behavior or action was wrong. billion in the next ten years.

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JUNE 3, 2008

The folks who created 3D Language Spain which I have blogged about before in Learning Spanish in a Game have now created a couple more interesting and highly entertaining products (not to mention Educational.) Sneak preview of the Arabic Version of 3DLanguage an immersive learning environment.

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Social Networks Social Network Version Games 100

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization. If you try to sell the use of social media as a technology play, it will not work. or "Can anyone help me.?"

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JULY 22, 2014

Facebook Page on Gamification of Learning and Instruction. Facebook Gamification Page. Blog Posts of Interest. We explore several methods for applying game-thinking to your online and classroom learning designs by participating in a gamified learning event. Here are the slides: Short Explanation of Gamification. Poll EveryWhere.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

In fact, in my blog post Games, Gamification & Learning in China I observed. Think of the huge self-paced learning purchase of Lynda.com by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion and the subsequent purchase of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 Just three years ago, LinkedIn posted fewer than 5,000 instructional designer job openings.

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