{"id":3849,"date":"2012-05-16T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2012-05-16T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:15:48","slug":"gaming-the-writing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/gaming-the-writing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming the Writing Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Art of Video Games 2012 by blakespot, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blakespot\/6848235652\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7204\/6848235652_6211947582_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"The Art of Video Games 2012\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>What would happen if we rethought the ways that we think and talk about writing and the writing process to use the kind of language and thinking that people use when they play games? That\u2019s the question I\u2019ve been pondering during the several weeks since Katie Salen\u2019s webinar, <a title=\"Katie Salen - Making Learning Irresistible: 6 Principles of Game-like Learning\" href=\"http:\/\/connectedlearning.tv\/katie-salen-making-learning-irresistible-6-principles-game-learning\" target=\"_blank\">Making Learning Irresistible: 6 Principles of Game-like Learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I talked about <a title=\"Can Connected Learning Make A Curriculum Relevant?\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/uncategorized\/can-connected-learning-make-a-curriculum-relevant\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to make a curriculum relevant<\/a> by thinking like a game designer when you structure your curriculum. This week I want to take that idea a little further by considering how a game designer might teach writing.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the 3 fundamental ways my teaching will change if I apply the strategies of game play to the writing process in <a title=\"Gaming the Writing Process\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/teaching-with-technology\/gaming-the-writing-process\/\" target=\"_blank\">my complete post on the Bedford Bits site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: <a title=\"The Art of Video Games 2012 by blakespot, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blakespot\/6848235652\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Video Games 2012 by blakespot, on Flickr<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if we rethought the ways that we think and talk about writing and the writing process to use the kind of language and thinking that people use when they play games? That\u2019s the question I\u2019ve been pondering during the several weeks since Katie Salen\u2019s webinar, Making Learning Irresistible: 6 Principles of Game-like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,336,77],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford-bits","category-connected-learning","category-composition","tag-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-105","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}