Life is a Game
Over the past couple of months I’ve seen a variety of discussions taking place concerning the positives and negatives of using the term “gamification” in… Read More »Life is a Game
Mozilla
10 Days til MOZFEST!
I’m volunteering at the Mozilla Festival in London on November 4th to the 6th. I’m pretty excited about it. I had a lot of fun… Read More »10 Days til MOZFEST!
Assessing Learning
I came across a study called “Effective Assessment in a Digital Age”, and it underlined some key points in how assessing learners has changed due… Read More »Assessing Learning
Response to Mozilla as teacher
Inspiration for this post is: Mozilla as teacher by Mark Surman When I read the first line of Mark’s post “We need to teach the… Read More »Response to Mozilla as teacher
Give us the Easy Ask!
Today I want to focus on the easy ask. What can you ask your users to contribute that is easy? It seems obvious, doesn’t it?… Read More »Give us the Easy Ask!
Game Mechanics and Participation
Let’s start with a stat: A shitload of people are playing games. Ok, it wasn’t a stat, but in 2007 Comscore found that 217 million… Read More »Game Mechanics and Participation
Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
One thing that I constantly hear colleagues in the Open Web community talking about is the lack of participation on the part of the user.… Read More »Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
Webify Me
Short and sweet today. Firefox 6 is out, go download it. And, I webified myself (you can too), and weirdly enough half the images on… Read More »Webify Me
Newsle Pitch
The 2 Minute Pitch The Problem Newsle addresses the problem that people aren’t very curious about what’s going on in the world. They’re curious about… Read More »Newsle Pitch
Feedback Session
Last night I had a Feedback session with my fellow MozNewsLabbers. It was fantastic. They pointed out both the problems that I was already aware… Read More »Feedback Session