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His experience presenting at a conference in Ohio

echoes my own experience in presenting the multiplayer classroom at the Game
Education Summit at USC in 2010. Our audiences were as enthusiastic as their
ideas were far-ranging and compelling. It was at that Game Education Summit
where two instructors from a technical school in Texas told me that they were
desperate to motivate students to come to class at all. After designing their
coursework as a game, one of them said,

“ World of Classroomcraft �

“ Now they ' re all coming to class. Early. �

Figure CH7.1
David M. Grimes.

Introduction
The one thing I really love about is that many of the

components are already there and already used by teachers. It

“ Gaming the Classroom �

' s just a matter of

stringing different lessons together and changing the lingo.
After watching videos and reading articles on Jesse Schell, Jane McGonigal, and
FunTheory, I saw the potential of how students and teachers could get excited,
and therefore motivated, when introducing gaming aspects into the classroom.
Laying the foundation from Lee Sheldon and his �

website and forum, I was able to put together an implementation plan that best
fit my students and their class needs.

“ Gaming the Classroom