Thanks for sharing and thanks also for putting so much effort into creating this resource.

Thanks Thomas

What a great idea. We use a Moodle in our secondary school to deliver curriculum material and I am constantly thinking about how to make the Moodle more interactive/interesting and get away from it being like paper behind glass. This is a wonderful solution to my problem. Thanks!

Hi Daniel,

Unfortunately, the system is not deployable. We are, however, working on a fully customizable system that allows instructors to run a merit system for their own classes. We're still a couple months away from having a beta, but we're looking for beta testers. Would you like to be involved? If so, shoot me an email at tom[at]attasi.com and we can discuss further. That goes for everyone, btw. Thanks!

Great work. Its a superb idea.

Apologies if this is a newbie question as I am new to exchange, but is this a shared resource (can I download the site and use on my own server with my students)

Well done on the award. Its well deserved!

Many thanks

Daniel

Fantastic, Iam very happy you shared it, and my students will be too :) 5 stars to you

Hi Melanie,

Yes, I developed the projects on the class site specifically for this class. Points were based on how difficult I thought the challenges were. Badges were given for really going beyond what was expected.

Thomas~

I am teaching Flash for the first time and have little experience with it, or at least I feel underqualified to be traing to teach it to someone else. Anyway, with regard to the class web site I am assumming it is also your handiwork? I am curious about how you created the ranking system.

Melanie

Hi Pamela,

Thanks for the questions. The site has an administrative backend which allows me to award students when they finish a challenge. Most of the work needs to be checked and approved, so this actually works out really well. The system then calculates points and rankings.

How does the interactive site work to track student progress? Do you have the actual student files scripted to send information to their file and then to the files of others so they can see whos beating who? I tried the demo and things were calculated and I saw some of the outside files for inspiration and all of your tip sheets except for the first one (dead link).

Congratulatons, Tom; I'm happy for you.

Mr. Murphy

Penn College (retired)

Excellent idea that involves individual participation of students and highly motivating.

good

Thanks so much for reconnecting some of the links. Fabulous idea!

Hi Betsy,

Thanks for checking it out. Yes, some of the resource links have been lost. This class ended months ago and somehow some of the files were lost in the shuffle (this is why the agenda only has a few days on it). I just did a quick search and found a few. They're uploaded, so if you're really interested you might try again.

Looks like a great idea! However, when I access the class website, all of the links come up with an error "not found" message. Ar the links no longer active?

Hi Trisha,

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you unable to log in? Once you get through, you can see all of the challenges put forth.

I can't get your link to show me what you are doing, but if it does what it says, I think it would be fabulous.

I got really good at director, but flash illuded all but a few students because of all the 'hidden' bits along a score.

Good luck with this project.

Cool site. Love the template files to work with and learn.

Priceless to hear from a participant (especially since I'm planning something similar). Thanks for sharing, Sarah!

As a student in this class, I can say this was one of the most effective teaching styles that we responded to. It made us all try harder to learn Flash, even when it got difficult, because of the competition aspect. I think what was so good about this type of game is that it would work well for any age group and skill level.

Thomas, as you already know, I love your idea and will be running with something similar this fall. Tapping into students' intrinsic motivation unlocks all that potential energy.

I agree with Mr. Ed: Fabulous curriculum!

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It wasn't really necessary. I thought I might run the risk of people falling behind, because I made all challenges optional. However, I think by providing more direct feedback as to where they stand in relation to their classmates, the students felt it necessary to keep up with what's going on. I think they felt more in control of their final grade, and I think it made learning more fun for them!

Fantastic curriculum Thomas! Thanks for sharing! I agree that Flash can be tough to learn and this is a novel approach to making it more fun.

The competitive aspect of the class is very interesting. I can see how that would be very compelling for the students. Did you do anything else to keep the students who may have fallen behind in the competition engaged with the classwork? Or was that not necessary?