"Good Morning. You All Have an F." - The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game - page 3

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"Good Morning. You All
Have an F."

“ Good morning. Welcome to the first class of the semester. Everyone in this

class is going to receive an F.

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One thing I will always regret when I look back on that first day of a new way of
teaching is that I didn t have somebody with a camera standing by to record the

expressions on the students

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faces. The mixture of disbelief, shock, fear, growing
umbrage, and more was something to behold.

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I had a fleeting thought: What if what if I just walked out after delivering that

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first line?

At this, the beginning of my third year in the halls of academe, I still wasn t

certain I wanted to be a college professor. There was much to like about the job.
My colleagues first and foremost; the intellectual engagement and discussion
(something that wasn

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t always available during my years in Hollywood); the
opportunities for me to learn; and the Bloomington campus of Indiana
University itself, regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country and
rightly so.

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My office looked over the Arboretum (see Figure 1.1), the green expanse of
grass, gurgling stream, trees and flowers crisscrossed by walkways at the heart of
the campus. To my right was Wells Library. Beyond the Arboretum loomed
more monolithic buildings built with the limestone that region of southern
Indiana is noted for. The bucolic scene that often captured my attention was