Kapp Notes

JANUARY 22, 2014

Unfortunately, the weather here in Pennsylvania did not cooperate with my desire to head to Las Vegas to talk about game design. Here are the slides I would have presented. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. Reference: Sitzmann, T.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

One technique we preach in our classes is creating  PowerPoint slides that employ iconography over standard bullets and text. Of course, visuals can only get you so far which is why I love the ability to quickly add interactive objects, even games, via Captivate's Learning Interactions. From here, you can add your images.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 21, 2013

Here are the slides from my virtual presentation to the CIBP Forum. Game based learning from Karl Kapp. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. A Registry of Serious Games and Simulations. Ed Heads: Great groups of games. The Gamification of Retail Safety and Loss Prevention Training. Blog Entries.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2013

Here are three online resources that can help you to think about developing an instructional game. Here are slides from Talib Hussain of Raytheon BBN Technologies. The slides are from a workshop and walk you through the process. I particularly like the “Mechanics” slides. Design Games' First Resource.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction The Training, Learning, and Development Community recently hosted Learning by Doing: Games and Gamification for Instructional Design. It was three days with ten sessions and fourteen speakers that added up to one amazing conference focused on learning games.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 19, 2017

Video games have always been and still are something that I love playing. What is the Purpose: How you are going to use the game and how others are going to use it can drastically change how you will develop its content. Doing this will give them the greatest sense of “gaming.”. You can, and I did. Here’s how.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 17, 2013

Sharon Boller, Steve Boller and Leanne Batchelder from Bottom Line Performance co-presented a workshop on game design and here are the slides and some other resources related to the workshop which you may find helpful. Learning Game Design Workshop from Karl Kapp. Learning Game Design Workshop from Karl Kapp.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Currently, virtual classroom instructors often use workarounds to apply gamification techniques since many virtual classroom software packages don’t have game or gamification elements. Students who have the highest number of #1 ranking responses win the game. Check it out at EduGame Cloud.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 20, 2015

A number of folks have requested the slides and references from my Learning Science Theater presentation. Here are the slides that contain the references and, in many cases, the doi number for look up. Abstracts of Three Meta-Analysis Studies of Serious Games. Abstracts of Three Meta-Analysis Studies of Serious Games.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 8, 2014

As promised, here are the slides and notes related to the presentation. Playing with the Definition of Game-Thinking. Instructional Games and Narrative. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Games, Gamification and the Quest for Learner Engagement. Had a wonderful audience for my session.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 12, 2014

Here are my slides from the keynote. Playing with the Definition of Game-Thinking. Instructional Games and Narrative. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Games, Gamification and the Quest for Learner Engagement. Defining Gamification.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 18, 2015

Here are the slides and other information from my presentation. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Games, Gamification and the Quest for Learner Engagement. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. Feedback in Learning Games.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Here are my slides and relevant resources from my Chicago presentation at Learning 3.0!! Here the slides from my presentation: Learning 3.0 Article in Training Quarterly: Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. Game Levels and Scaffolding–They’re Related. Hope you find these resources helpful. gamification.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 5, 2015

Here are slides similar to the ones presented in the workshop, links notes and other items of interest related to my presentation at Central PA ATD Conference. First the slides. Here are slides about game elements. Game Elements from Karl Kapp. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 24, 2013

Here are three online resources that can help you to think about developing an instructional game. Here are slides from Talib Hussain of Raytheon BBN Technologies. The slides are from a workshop and walk you through the process. I particularly like the “Mechanics” slides. First Resource. Second Resource.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 1, 2018

In the past couple months, it seems that practically the entire world has had one game or another on their mind—and all over social media! Whether it was the championship football game, the recent winter games in Korea, the upcoming college basketball tournaments, or the myriad of other games that go on throughout the year.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 14, 2015

Here are slides, links notes and other items of interest related to my presentation at ATD TK. First the slides. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. Five Gaming Elements for Effective eLearning. Feedback in Learning Games.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 23, 2016

The slides are included in this post as well. Here are some of the great games the participants created. He helped to create a wonderfully fun and instructional game with his team. Games, Gamification, and the Quest for Learner Engagement. Here is a picture of me and Ivan.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 18, 2012

It was sparked by Ruth Clark’s article “ Why Games Don’t Teach. ” So, So looking at the argument, Why Games Don’t Teach, we have several interesting positions: Games Don’t Teach. All current reviews of adequately designed and peer-reviewed research have found NO learning or motivational benefits from games.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Here are the slides and some links related to my presentation at the conference. Five Things Game Designers Can Teach eLearning Designers from Karl Kapp. Here are the five elements of thinking like a game designer. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Here are the slides and other resources from the presentation. Here are the slides. Don't Think Like an Instructional Designer—Think Like a Game Designer from Karl Kapp. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Feedback in Learning Games.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Here are the slides. Here is some information on thinking like a game designer. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. Five Gaming Elements for Effective eLearning. Here is an article of how a man learned life saving skills by playing the game America’s Army. Feedback in Learning Games.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 24, 2013

Here are the slides from my virtual presentation to the CIBP Forum. Game based learning from Karl Kapp. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer. A Registry of Serious Games and Simulations. Ed Heads: Great groups of games. The Gamification of Retail Safety and Loss Prevention Training. Blog Entries.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 25, 2019

In a nutshell, I have a game map where movement about the map will take place as the learners attempt to accomplish the goals of the game (goal of the game portion will be to explore a geographic location and collect as many game items as possible in the given timeframe).

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Anyway, here are the slides and some resources. Here are the slides from the presentation: Gadgets, Games and Google For Learning South FL Presentation. Here are some resources and posts related to today’s webinar: Article in Training Quarterly: Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 18, 2012

It was sparked by Ruth Clark’s article “ Why Games Don’t Teach. ” So, So looking at the argument, Why Games Don’t Teach, we have several interesting positions: Games Don’t Teach. All current reviews of adequately designed and peer-reviewed research have found NO learning or motivational benefits from games.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 28, 2018

Today’s learners expect a lot from their learning games. In this webinar, Rich Vass and Dan Dellenbach explored often overlooked elements in learning games that have more to do with the story and can make all the difference for learner engagement. How do we create games for both? Grabbing their attention and keeping it requires.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are my slides and various links to my presentation at Learning Solutions. Eight Game Elements to Make Learning More Intriguing. Games, Gamification and the Quest for Learner Engagement. Tips to Leverage Game Elements for Learning. Have games played over time rather than all at once. Games Gamification'

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

PT: Action Adventure in Serious Games (Free for I4PL members) In this session, you’ll look at how to design serious games using augmented reality, film production methodologies and advanced methodologies, such as procedural generation. Each group has a unique learning style and gravitates toward different game types.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2014

Margarida Romera, Professor University Laval (Quebec) -- with a link to her slides on this session. Games = organized play (Prensky (2001) Serious games = games with purpose Gamification = use of game design elemnts in non-game contexts (Deterding, 2011) Beyond complexity…a methodology (HEXA-GameBasedLearning GBL): 1.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 5, 2015

Every Knowledge Guru game must have a Game Author associated with it. A Game Author is the individual who creates the game content, customizes the game, and implements the game (e.g. The game author can also access and export game reports that detail player progress, player performance, etc.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 21, 2011

If you resize the PowerPoint presentation, the size of the imported slides you see in Captivate will match the width and height of your Captivate project.  However, consider resizing the PowerPoint presentation early in the game. Changing the size of a presentation will likely result in slide object resizing and moving.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Narrative design in video games. A Twitter thread with tips for writing stories with internal and external conflict from narrative design in games. Tim Slade explains basics of visual design for new elearning developers, focusing on picking fonts, colors, and images, plus creating slide layouts. Rance Greene.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 6, 2010

There have been a number of interesting development in term of Google and social game purchases and game related initiatives. Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games* Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming company Zynga.

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Ed App

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When it comes to learning, using games can be a great supplement to your curriculum. A few advantages of using games include: Reinforcement of what has already been studied. While that’s just a brief list, I’m sure you can see why including games in your lessons can have its advantages. Making the Game.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The Quest game type supports video-based questions. Note: Legend games do not.) If you choose to link videos from an alternate source, always be sure to preview your video questions before sending your game out to players. Click through this slide show to view a quick visual tutorial. Video can be powerful.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 23, 2013

And then presenting on Five Things that Instructional Designers can Learn from Game Designers. Here are the slides and some resources from my presentation. Five Things Game Designers Can Teach eLearning Designers from Karl Kapp. Here are the five elements of thinking like a game designer. The Gamification of Healthcare.

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