Dominion (season 2.4)

Dominion is findable at virtually any friendly, neighborhood game store. Go visit yours and you'll be good to go.

Some books to read to get a much better appreciation of medieval Europe:

Norman Cantor. "Inventing the Middle Ages."

William Manchester. "A World Lit Only By Fire."

Barbara Tuchman. "A Distant Mirror."

On metacognition in education: 

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/metacognition-gift-that-keeps-giving-donna-wilson-marcus-conyers

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-pathways-metacognition-in-classroom-marilyn-price-mitchell

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Jon Cassie is at joncassie at gmail dot com.

Tracy Wazenegger is at tlwazenegger at gmail dot com.

Cover image from: [https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/392195/dominion?size=large]

Colt Express (season 2.3)

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Tracy's email is tlwazenegger at gmail dot com.

Jon's email is joncassie at gmail dot com.

Get Colt Express at CoolStuffInc for a nifty price!

Cover pic from [https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/2869299/colt-express?size=large]

Mysterium (season 2.2)

Mysterium's Board Game Geek site: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181304/mysterium.

A treatise on Victorian parlors: http://www.thisvictorianlife.com/parlor.html.

An assortment of unusual Victorian parlor games: http://listverse.com/2013/01/29/10-weird-parlour-games-played-before-tv-existed/.

The cover art for this episode: [https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2838255/mysterium]

7 Wonders (season 2.1)

7 Wonders' entry on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders

What big data is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data

An interview with the great guru of big data, Hans Rosling, on big data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

6: Deep Seas and Deep Learning, w/Mindful Mammoth's Tim Handley

Listeners should visit Mindful Mammoth to see what Tim's work is all about.

5: Achieving Real Learning, w/Mike Irwin

Jon Cassie speaks with Michigan-based history teacher Mike Irwin about his experiences as a teacher using gamified methods in a charter school in Detroit.

4: Firing Flareguns, w/Rahul Kanojia

I am joined by Rahul Kanojia of Rogue Robot Studios on this episode of Game Level Learn. Rahul is a game designer and educational gamifier working hard to bring the benefits of gamified instruction to classrooms in his home base of Arizona and to the rest of the world.

3: Gamifiers Get Playing, w/Tracy Wazenegger

To reach Jon Cassie, email joncassie@gmail.com or on Twitter @joncassie or on Facebook.

To reach Tracy Wazenegger, email twazenegger@gmail.com or on Facebook.

We referenced the following games in this podcast:

Bamboleo

Betrayal at House on the Hill

Codenames

Escape Room - there are now hundreds of these interactive puzzle games around the country. This link is to the Pittsburgh version. Great fun!

Forbidden Island

Freedom 

Galaxy Trucker

Halo

Letters from Whitechapel

Machi Koro

Mysterium

The New Science

Thebes

Set

Spyfall

Zendo

2: Election Games

1: Gamified v. Game-Based Learning

Show Notes

Find Jane McGonigal's seminal book "Reality Is Broken" here.

Jane McGonigal's Twitter feed is @avantgame.

My book on gamified teaching and learning is available here.

Game Level Learn's theme music is by Blue Dot Sessions. The track is called "Curio" and it is off Blue Dot Sessions' Vacant Distillery album, which can be found here.