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Social Media Tracking the Nation's Mood

Kapp Notes

Check out this video showing how researchers used Tweats to determine the mood of the country and individual states. A few highlights from the research: The "early morning and late evening" have the "highest level of happiness." The West coast is "significantly happier" than the East coast Weekends are "much happier" than weekdays.

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Game Element: Construction and Creation

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The roller coasters can be custom built by the player using a system where the player chooses the type of track, the curve of the track and other elements to create the type of roller coaster they desire. The coasters can be mild or wild depending on how the player decides to string together the track for the coaster.

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Scary Presentation Mistakes Video

Kapp Notes

And here is another along the same track, equally as scary because this one also sums up many presentations and educational sessions I’ve attended. Thanks to @arossett. For pointing to this wonderful and scary video.

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Two Types of #Gamification

Kapp Notes

This type of gamification also typically has a leaderboard and methods of tracking learning progress. The most common elements in this type of gamification are points, badges, achievements and levels. As well as a social component where learners can share accomplishments with other learners and share what they have achieved.

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Two Types of #Gamification

Kapp Notes

This type of gamification also typically has a leaderboard and methods of tracking learning progress. The most common elements in this type of gamification are points, badges, achievements and levels. As well as a social component where learners can share accomplishments with other learners and share what they have achieved.

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What Happens in a Story…Happens in Your Brain

Kapp Notes

The research found that different brain regions track different aspects of a story. Here we present functional neuroimaging evidence that neural systems track changes in the situation described by a story. Different brain regions track different aspects of a story, such as a character’s physical location or current goals.

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A conversation with GamEffective

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GamEffective uses real time performance tracking and goal setting to create employee engagement and improved employee performance. Very quickly, we realized that, through tracking performance results, we can tell when employees needed more training – and that there was a great need for gamified learning.