The Moodle Dailies: Levelling up professional development

• Based upon World of Warcraft and Angry Birds
• Daily quest - takes 5-10 mins to do, keep up reputation in the game => primary idea behind design
• Workshops not sustainable - don't teach people how to think about things, just how to do things - no conceptual framework
• Angry birds - can complete at various levels - 1, 2, 3 star level => complete tasks at different levels, allows the user to go back
• Uses conditional activities, with various Moodle activities
• A task that is separate from the goals but involves using them - try and stick to the narrative, students make own connections
• Smart naming is essential for conditional activities. Labels are useful for this as they are named after the initial text.

Reality is Broken website - there is also a book. About games and learning.

Some of Sarah Thorneycroft's blog entries here.