Entries by Jessica Bishop
ISLT 7384: Narrative Design Process
ISLT 7384: Narratology and Learning Objectives for a Game for Learning
ISLT 7384: GameStorming and Story Building a Game for Learning
ISLT 7384: Initial Game and Story Comparisons
ISLT 7384: Empowered Learning for Games
ISLT 7384: Player Type and Game Choice
Small Things: Contexts in the Learner’s Experience
You’re writing a paper during your lunch and need to review the instructions. The syllabus should be in the learning management system (LMS). You don’t have your computer, so you open the LMS app on your phone.
The navigation looks different than in the browser. You tap through several screens before finding the syllabus. You read through the details, which mentions you should refer to another document.
Twenty minutes pass, and you still can’t find the supplemental instructions. …
2022: Choosing My Focus for the Year
Goals can be chosen at any time. Yet a new year feels like a new start—a natural break to try something new. It’s no wonder we choose this time of the year to set goals.
Setting a focus helps me—without it, my attention wanders. Over my life, I’ve accomplished some goals—and let others go. The ideas of what seems worth pursuing changes with circumstance or attitude. Yet these efforts can help us define (and redefine) what matters….
2021: A Year of Small Accomplishments
As we lean into the end of the year, it’s customary to reflect on the highlights—a difficult task as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to permeate our lives. Yet we also continue to live our lives in the spaces in between. As I reflect on 2021, I share this post to remind myself of what I accomplished during another year of challenges….