+1 on cleaning the kitchen.

[mothwing]

Taking to heart this TED-talk as well as Jane McGonigal's book and this ExtraCredits episode on gamifying education I'm working on ways to make my class more motivating next year. If all things go well, I'll be teaching an 8th grade and I'm going to try to apply some of the things they propose.

Researching this is fun, too, because through this I've discovered awesome things like: 

ChoreWars - a browser-based game in which you can enter an epic chore competition with your roomies

and

Plusoneme.com - which lets others give you points for your RL stats.

Comments

[pemberley.livejournal.com]

We need to talk about this IRL because this has been on my mind for a while now, too.
I've been trying to come up with some kind of point system for homework assignments for my classes next semester. I don't think we would be "allowed" to change our whole grading system, but I think that at least part of it could definitely profit from this. We need to should talk to Lars, maybe, too. My English-Fachleiter is too old to understand the idea behind it all.
Oh, I'm so excited :D