Gamification of Learning and Instruction Theory Into Practice Blog Tour

I am kicking off another blog book tour and am excited to be able to “go” on another tour. We are starting it today as ASTD and I kick-off a 10+ stop blog book tour for the ASTD co-published book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Theory into Practice. The book is available at the ASTD Book Store.

I have done several tours in the past and wanted to keep this one a little smaller to be a more intimate and to grow organically. Let’s have fun with it and see what happens.

This tour is related to the fieldbook. The goal of this book is to provide a practical, hands-on approach to creating games, gamification and simulations for learning. The first book covers a good deal of the concepts, ideas and approaches. This new book covers case studies, provides worksheets and gives the information needed to take theory and turn it into practice.

I am please with the book and excited to have it ready in time for 2014 projects you might undertake.

You are encouraged to join the tour. Leave a comment on this posting linking to your blog and it will “officially” become part of the tour. We want to expand the tour with your input, ideas and concepts related to Gamification.

Here are the first 5 tour stop dates, check back here for more dates and locations and add your blog>.

Also, there will be a live stop at ASTD Techknowledge. My presentation is “10 Things We Know About How to Design Games for Learning From Research.”

The blog book tour is a virtual tour so you can just follow along stop by stop. If you don’t have the book yet, stop by the ASTD book store a pick up a copy HERE.

The Twitter hashtag for the tour is #gamiLI

There is a Pinterest page for the tour.

And a Facebook page for the tour, stop by and give it a LIKE:)

Here are the tour stops, the day of the stop and a link to the stop are indicated below. You can follow along by going blog to blog and leaving a comment.

Week One

December 16: Kapp Notes, Kickoff!
December 17: Bottom Line Performance Blog
December 18: Learnnovators (Part I of interview about Gamification.. Part II will be posted on December 22nd!)
BONUS: Review of the book (in Dutch) by Mathias Vermeulen of Winston Wolfe! Check it out here!
December 19: Game On! Learning Blog (Great free resources!)
December 20: Performance Development Group–co-author Rich Mesch (just announced!)

Week Two

December 22: Part II of Learnnovator interview. Here it is!
December 23: MindTickle
December 24: No Post
December 25: No Post
December 26: Axonify
December 27: Pinterest Gamification Page

Week Three

(complete mystery, join the tour, although I do have some articles I will be linking to.)