Exploring Gamification, Game-based Learning, and Educational Escape Rooms in Education.

🔧 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.

🎮 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.

🔍 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.

🔍 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.

🧩 Creating a virtual escape room using Google Forms

🎨 Customizing the theme and colors of the escape room

📝 Setting up quiz questions and answer feedback

🔗 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.

🔍 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.