Professor Game Podcast

This is an entirely different episode, I'm sharing a personal/professional update in my life! Listen up if you want to find out!

Having recently joined ShowCode, Sheran is a key figure in organising and delivering their hackathons and coding competitions. He's taking the lead in their upcoming hack 'Level-Up Society' which will give participants 48-hours to come up with something to help improve a pillar of society, using gamification.

Dave Beck is a practicing 3D digital and new media artist and designer, living in Wisconsin. He is the creator of the award-winning video game, Tombeaux, and also recipient of the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Award, given by the National Science Foundation. Beck's artwork has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, National Geographic, the journal Science, and the book GameScenes: Art in the Age of Videogames. When Dave Beck is not making interactive experiences, he is a Professor of Game Design and the Director and Associate Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Art & Design, the largest higher education art and design program in the upper midwest. He is also the founding Director of the Game Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, which is ranked as one of the top game design programs in the country by the Princeton Review.

Dov is a Tao-inspired agile, systemic, and exec coach, living in the heart of Paris with a woman and a dog. He's an avid speaker and facilitator and has a love-hate relationship with serious games. He is the creator of the Meeting Spicer, a tool to hack meeting culture that he believes can change the world.

Bob is an advocate of stewardship. He has always believed in taking care of the things that he has been blessed with. It is his mission to help others in doing the same. Bob's perspective derives from a battle with cancer at age 18. After growing up an only child it wasn't until he was legally an adult that he felt alone. Having his life threatened at such a young age lead to a unique view of the gift that is vitality.

Erik is a researcher and developer of Learning Solutions. He's the founder of Play Learn Develop and also a vegetarian. His research and products combine the use of Human Behaviour, tabletop games and Artificial Intelligence/Data Science. Over the past two years, he has worked with the University of Economics Krakow, in Poland, and with Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in Ireland. Currently, he's working on a project to take ToolBox 4 Creativity (his latest L&D product) to Kickstarter. As well as applying for EU funding to develop his umbrella research at the Human Centre Organisational Transformation Framework.

Bernardo started as a web designer back in 1998. He worked in JWT (marketing agency) for a year and afterward started his journey in the training world working at EduMac as an Adobe Certified Instructor. In 2008 he started working at the American School Foundation. Bernardo has been working as a freelancer forever and founded his company in 2011. In 2011 he was introduced by a student to the concept of gamification. Since then all his classes were gamified. He developed BLUErabbit as a platform to gamify education and increase engagement in any teaching environment. In November 2017, BLUERABBIT was awarded The Outstanding Gamification Software in Gamification Europe.

Special episode alert! This week we are asking for your help Engagers! We have a shorter episode explaining how you can engage with Professor Game to activate the special powers (yes, oldie but goodie Wonder Twin Powers-like). All you have to do is go to professorgame.com/survey21, invest less than 5 minutes answering some questions and that's it! You can invest a little more and give us some more details, and you can also go on a quest that shows up after you hit send on the survey! As always, we are guided by your interests and needs, so we're counting on you Engagers, let's do this!

Miguel Sicart is an Associate Professor at the IT University, where he teaches play design. He is the author of The Ethics of Computer Games (The MIT Press, 2009), Beyond Choices (The MIT Press, 2013), and Play Matters (The MIT Press, 2014). His work combines the philosophy of technology, game studies, and design theory to try to make sense of play. His most recent research focuses on the nature of play in the software society, and on the ridiculous nature of all software.

Mr. Powley is the Dual Enrollment American History Teacher at HCS Early College High School in Coastal South Carolina where he lives with his wife Amanda and three young boys. In 2013, he began transforming his classroom with game-inspired design. He has been a presenter at the Future of Ed Tech Conference as well as numerous state and local events. Mr. Powley is currently writing a blog at classroompowerups.com where he frequently writes about gamification and other game-inspired practices.