Exploring Gamification, Game-based Learning, and Educational Escape Rooms in Education.
Learn how to create a virtual educational escape room using Google productivity tools and slides to review past and present tenses and basic vocabulary.
00:00:20 Learn how to create a virtual educational escape room using Google productivity tools and slides to review past and present tenses and basic vocabulary.
🔧 The video is a workshop on creating a virtual educational escape room using Google productivity tools.
🎮 They provide an example of a virtual escape room called Living Roomscape, designed for English language learners to review past and present tenses and vocabulary.
🔐 Participants are encouraged to play the escape room and then share their thoughts and experiences in the chat.
00:07:30 Summary: This video discusses the concepts of gamification and game-based learning in education and explores the use of educational escape rooms as a tool for teaching and learning. It provides an overview of the elements involved in creating an escape room and highlights the benefits of using games in the classroom. Alternative Title: Exploring Gamification, Game-based Learning, and Educational Escape Rooms in Education.
🎮 Gamification is the infusion of game elements into non-game contexts to engage and motivate learners.
📚 Game-based learning uses games to support teaching and learning outcomes, allowing students to have fun while advancing towards learning objectives.
🔐 Educational Escape Rooms (EERs) are a type of game-based learning where participants interact with disciplinary content through puzzle-solving, promoting learning in a fun and engaging way.
📝 Creating an effective EER involves elements such as narrative, game flow, puzzles, equipment, and debriefing.
00:14:40 Students explore a virtual escape room to learn about verb endings in English. The room contains clues in the form of slides and a YouTube video. The objective is to comprehend and apply the correct verb endings.
🔍 The virtual escape room used in the video was designed to teach English to language learners focusing on verb endings and tenses.
🎮 The game flow of the escape room was open and sequential, with students searching for clues in the room to advance and find answers.
💡 The video also demonstrated the steps to creating a virtual escape room, including determining objectives, narratives, and puzzles.
00:21:50 Learn how to build a virtual educational escape room by creating clues, backgrounds, and callouts. Link items to clue slides and launch the escape room.
🔍 Finding and uploading images as backgrounds for slides.
🕵️ Creating clue slides with text and images.
🔗 Linking items on the home page to clue slides.
📝 Creating a quiz using Google Forms for the escape room.
00:29:00 This video provides a tutorial on how to create a virtual educational escape room using Google Forms. It covers topics such as creating the quiz, adding feedback, embedding a YouTube video, and linking different parts of the escape room.
🧩 Creating a virtual escape room using Google Forms
🎨 Customizing the theme and colors of the escape room
📝 Setting up quiz questions and answer feedback
00:36:11 Creating a virtual educational escape room by linking shapes, adding internal clues, and preventing accidental clicks. Share the link with students for an immersive experience.
🔗 Linking objects in the virtual escape room to different resources, such as Google forms and slides.
🔍 Creating internal clues by highlighting certain objects and linking them to specific slides.
🚪 Preventing accidental clicks and maintaining the order of the escape room by skipping certain slides.
📚 Sharing the escape room with students and providing a full-screen immersive experience.
🔁 Making adjustments to the linked objects based on feedback and correcting any errors.
00:43:21 Learn how to create a virtual educational escape room by adding links to navigate to different rooms. Includes tips for finding images and creating a back button.
🔍 Using the answer feedback in a quiz, links can be added to allow students to move from one educational escape room to another.
💡 Downloading images from Google can provide background options for escape rooms, while adding a back button shape allows students to return to the home page.
🎥 The process demonstrated in the video can be applied to both Google Slides and PowerPoint presentations.
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