Cohort 21 | Mark Hoel | Activity https://cohort21.com/members/mhoel/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Hoel. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:14:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-CA 30 hourly 2 d20530c4ada992431e798f773136383f Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=95 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:01:42 -0500 Busy teachers know that time to be creative and enhance student experience can be hard to come by. 2019-20 holidays provided the time needed for me to code student enhancement request to my side-hustle […]

]]> 7699ecc1c4080936d33dec89c97c879b Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/10/28/content-vs-structural-gamification/#comment-24 Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:22:46 -0500 Hi Afzal,
Absolutely I would love a chance to chat with you. I am having fun learning the best and worst ways to create structural gamification as well as learning about the pros/cons of programming student requested enhancements during the school year.
Mark

In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel Content Gamification Content gamification is awesome. Engaging your students in an activity is fun and works. I am particularly fond of using Minecraft to do this. […] ]]> 9b468b93f1907fa164eca2e882204879 Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=90 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:41:44 -0500 My Cohort21 project is to develop a structural gamification Learning Management System that empowers learner agency. My software is called gameof5. The name is a play on the term ‘gamify’ – that domain was […]

]]> 7bc27f89e67b79f54e6c1498b974498f Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/10/28/content-vs-structural-gamification/#comment-21 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:28:03 -0500 Hi Tracy,
Thanks for the feedback ๐Ÿ™‚ Gameof5 development and rollout continues with my students and my teacher beta tester. It sounds like we should have a lot to talk about. Here is my action plan document so far if you are interested in what my students think ๐Ÿ™‚
Mark

In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel Content Gamification Content gamification is awesome. Engaging your students in an activity is fun and works. I am particularly fond of using Minecraft to do this. […] ]]> a2c542cce7953698f14c10a1516a4502 Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/10/28/content-vs-structural-gamification/#comment-20 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:15:00 -0500 Hi Garth,
Will do. I have an animated gif of the user facing user interface that I have posted on a previous site. I will edit this post to include it.
Mark

In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel Content Gamification Content gamification is awesome. Engaging your students in an activity is fun and works. I am particularly fond of using Minecraft to do this. […] ]]> f140eb9e0351b78ceb89d8a7c9410678 Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=79 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:36:44 -0400 Content Gamification
Content gamification is awesome. Engaging your students in an activity is fun and works. I am particularly fond of using Minecraft to do this. Here is an example:

My UCC students […]

]]> 9cf6ec498b63fbc5596f3e3671c5946d Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/10/26/gamified-community-service-dashboard/#comment-15 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:10:55 -0400 Hi Justin,

Sure, it would be an honour to be invited and present ๐Ÿ™‚ I have done a lot of content gamification in the past like Mike Farley. Most notably, my students and I spoke at 3 conferences related to using real geographic data in Minecraft (ESRI internation user conference, ESRI Canada conference and City of Toronto GIS day). Here is a…Read more

In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel I am currently working on gameof5.com a gamified learning management system to help empower student learning.ย This is my second structural gamification […] ]]> 8ac4bb113590cce60204bfa026279677 Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=77 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 22:42:31 -0400 I am currently working on gameof5.com a gamified learning management system to help empower student learning.ย This is my second structural gamification initiative.

A few years ago the head of Creativity Action […]

]]> 69d4810d671b5e02bdc840d8bd567d71 Mark Hoel and Lincoln Smith are now friends https://cohort21.com/activity-streams/p/10729/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:40:13 -0400 0 1418d62cc46162ebd5bd27914f625054 Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/10/05/my-side-hustle-structural-gamification/#comment-9 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:05:03 -0400 Hi Cresencia,
Thanks for the good idea. Let’s chat at your Creative/Destruction conference!
Mark

In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel I’m developing gameof5.com – a FREE gamification platform with a colleague. I’m hoping that Cohort21 will help with ideas and help make the application awesome […] ]]> e9d7f9b2bd8eef10e993ed09e1630e4e Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=68 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:51:04 -0400 Currently I am beta testing my Cohort21 side hustle; gameof5.com with all 5 of my classes. My early impression is that students seem engaged by the gamified learning management system.

They genuinely seem […]

]]> 49678fb65d83b4d5250af3a47d5fe0e2 Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/10/05/my-side-hustle-structural-gamification/#comment-8 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:17:07 -0400 Hi Justin,
Great! Just visit gameof5 and get started! I should probably make a couple of instructional videos. Try it out anyway to test usability. Maybe you can figure it out with no help.
Mark

In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel I’m developing gameof5.com – a FREE gamification platform with a colleague. I’m hoping that Cohort21 will help with ideas and help make the application awesome […] ]]> 38696217c637db85df9dcc04295876a0 Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=60 Sat, 05 Oct 2019 18:29:19 -0400 I’m developing gameof5.com – a FREE gamification platform with a colleague.

I’m hoping that Cohort21 will help with ideas and help make the application awesome for students and teachers.

]]> 11e084340ed623260edcdb325943ff08 Mark Hoel's profile was updated https://cohort21.com/activity-streams/p/10534/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:56:10 -0400 0 d09ccff8b36ef07c5b3ea733cde6e301 Mark Hoel's profile was updated https://cohort21.com/activity-streams/p/10397/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:30 -0400 0 93a2bbb45a26d43b81ff03974e32efc1 Mark Hoel posted a new activity comment https://cohort21.com/markhoel/2019/09/09/hello-world/#comment-3 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:23:01 -0400 G,
Looking forward to catching up! Are you still dressing up like Abe Lincoln? You inspired me to dress up like a Mexican wrestler once.
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In reply to - Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel Hi, I’ve been teaching for 20+ years. I love it. My first day I puked I was so scared ๐Ÿ™‚ Learning is a life-long process that comes from solving problems, ta […] ]]> fcfd013bea600e5f323ed023c4440827 Mark Hoel changed their profile picture https://cohort21.com/activity-streams/p/10139/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:51:12 -0400 0 4a5151dece3bd5a8f99a62f5c4b99834 Mark Hoel's profile was updated https://cohort21.com/activity-streams/p/10136/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:30:59 -0400 0 3d3f4a13ecae82f61ac564c6c572448c Mark Hoel wrote a new post on the site Mark Hoel https://cohort21.com/markhoel/?p=1 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:39:12 -0400 What is Cohort 21 ?
What is Cohort 21 ?

What is Cohort 21 ? Cohort 21 is structured, but organic. It is rooted in current research, with an eye [โ€ฆ]

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