Day 10: Board Games, Gaminfication, and time travel.

Art project was first up this morning:
 

My shapes have been drawn on the watercolors, and have been glued to the mat board.  I am now in the process of cutting them out.  It is a very tedious process, but it will be rewarding.  The plate on the right is not my project, but shows what my project will look like.  I am using the same plate mold, but this design:

 
Dr Beriswell talked to us about creating board games using Powerpoint and Excel.  To be honest, this one was difficult for me because I am not a fluent with Excel as I'd like to be.  It looks like something I could really benefit from, but there's the learning curve.  I'll get it eventually.

My old friend Justin Putnam came to deliver a presentation about gamifying you classroom: using gaming principles in instructional design.

He also brought a lot of really cool tech to play with:

Finally we took a field trip down the hill to the TK Martin Center.  I honestly didn't think I was going to be able to keep it together during that trip.  But, I did.  It was great seeing it all again because we had such a good experience there when Jacob was little.  So much that we have been spoiled to the point of holding every school he's ever been to that high standard.

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