Podcasts about wowinschool project

Ray Pastore #12 - Interview with Lucas Gillispie, Director of Digital Learning and Media, Surry County Schools Lucas Gillispie is an instructional technologist and public educator working in North Carolina. An avid gamer, he is passionate about the integration of video games into the learning environment and using games as a model for instruction. He is the founder and co-creator of the WoWinSchool Project, a program designed to explore the educational potential of online games like World of Warcraft with middle schoolers and leads one of the largest school-based Minecraft implementations in the world. Though commonly leading iPad and Chromebook workshops with teachers in his district, occasionally, you'll find him engaged in a heated survival games match with his middle schoolers on the district Minecraft server or giving high schoolers roller coaster rides with an Oculus Rift. He shares gaming resources with educators and even makes an occasional blog post at: http://www.edurealms.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rayme-pastore/support

Most agree that we need to reimagine the way teacher professional development is done but is gamification the answer? Follow: @lucasgillispie @MatthewFarber @mrmatera @bamradionetwork Lucas Gillispie is an Instructional Technologist for Pender County Schools in North Carolina. He is the founder of the WoWinSchool Project, a program designed to explore the educational potential of online games like World of Warcraft with middle schoolers and leads one of the largest school-based Minecraft implementations in the world. Lucas is an internationally recognized speaker, and shares his experiences and resources on his blog: http://www.edurealms.com.

In this segment, we look at several examples of how Minecraft is being used to powerfully engage students on a variety of academic subjects. Follow: @coolcatteacher @lucasgillispie @bamradionetwork #edtechchat #edchat #edtech Lucas Gillispie is an Instructional Technologist for Pender County Schools in North Carolina. He is the founder of the WoWinSchool Project, a program designed to explore the educational potential of online games like World of Warcraft with middle schoolers and leads one of the largest school-based Minecraft implementations in the world. Lucas is an internationally recognized speaker, and shares his experiences and resources on his blog: http://www.edurealms.com.

In this segment we talk with an instructional technology leader in a school district that is using Minecraft for game-based learning with some pretty spectacular results. Our guest talks about setting up the program, managing it and how to think creatively about connecting the game to the curriculum. Follow:@petamiller @PCStech @teachthought @bamradionetwork Lucas Gillispie is an Instructional Technologist for Pender County Schools in North Carolina. He is the founder of the WoWinSchool Project, a program designed to explore the educational potential of online games like World of Warcraft with middle schoolers and leads one of the largest school-based Minecraft implemen- tations in the world. Lucas is an internationally recognized speaker, and shares his experiences and resources on his blog: http://www.edurealms.com.

Alternate title that was not used- Kids Know What Real Games Are   We’ve done it again! For the second straight week we have a fascinating guest on EdGamer. This week’s episode (Episode 7) finds us chatting with Lucas Gillispie, an Instructional Technology Coordinator for Pender County Schools in southeastern North Carolina. Lucas has a history with gaming and education that eclipses 99 percent of the field. A little about Lucas (from his site http://edurealms.com/) – His current projects include the WoWinSchool Project, a collaborative effort to explore the impact of using World of Warcraft in both an after-school program and as part of the regular instructional program, Minecraft in School, which seeks to explore the use of Minecraft in with elementary learners, and iPod Games for Learning, a program that uses the iPad and iPod Touch as platforms for game-based learning.  … Read the rest