PMOG Motivates Me
I’m excited to be more actively exploring new technologies again. The other night when I couldn’t sleep one of the people I always look to for finding out about new technologies was my good friend and constant twitterer CogDog was playing around with PMOG. Yippy...I’m so excited about this tool! I’ve been wanting to, and will now that I’ve got the super motivator, write curriculum for an intro to gaming class. Yeah, yeah...your snarky laughs are the same ones people gave a couple decades ago when faculty started introducing intro to film classes. And which of my classes make enrollment with no problem…
Anyhow...back to The Passively Mutliplayer Online Game (PMOG), it’s a game (you earn points, etc.); however, it also allows you to build “missions” that other “players” can take as well. Although I’m still having difficulties getting the Maricopa Tech mission I’ve been trying to build to work; I’m excited about the possibilities of this technology. It will give the intro to gaming class a tool that everyone can “play” and with the building mission feature I can have students “build” mini-games on their own. How exciting! Keep an eye out for when I start developing the curriculum, I’m going to try to make more use of my sites wiki and discussion board features this summer...so you all will be able to help me build.
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