BLAP Gamification

As I've been talking more about gamification, I found that I needed a term for gamification that focused on points, levels, achievements, and badges.   Playing with the first letters of these concepts led me to coin the term BLAP gamification:

Badges

Levels

Achievements

Points.

BLAP!

The term "BLAP gamification" also provides a good mental image of what happens when a gamification consultant takes a structure of points, levels, badges, and achievements and drops it down on a non-gaming context:  BLAP!

I've used the term as the base of an introduction to gamification post that I made on the TL-DR blog where I am a guest author, and you can see that post at

BLAP: You have gained +1 in Gamification!

Article on Recreational Gaming in Libraries

For the Illinois Library Association reporter, I wrote a short piece on recreational gaming in libraries.  You can read it here:

http://www.ila.org/Reporter/August%202012/Pages_12-15.pdf

Recent conference talks online & ALA

Two of my recent conference talks are now available online.

My presentation about my theoretical framework for meaningful gamification, presented at Games + Learning + Society 8.0, is available at http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/dbebeb451f3a4332ab0f92a77189832a1d?catalog=4fc740c3-f691-4b2d-824f-6d7df99fee1e

My presentation from the Games for Change Festival on opportunities for game developers to get involved in libraries is available at 

http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/dbebeb451f3a4332ab0f92a77189832a1d?catalog=4fc740c3-f691-4b2d-824f-6d7df99fee1e

If you are going to the American Library Association annual conference, you can find me at three events:

Time		Title	Type	Location
FRIDAY, JUNE 22 - 7:00PM
7:30pm - 10:00pm		ALAplay	Social event	Anaheim Marriott Marquis Northeast
SATURDAY, JUNE 23 - 8:00AM
8:00am - 10:00am		Grown Ups Just Want to Have Fun! Library Play Programming for College Students of All Ages	Program	Anaheim Convention Center 201B
SATURDAY, JUNE 23 - 10:00AM
10:30am - 12:00pm		Games and Gaming Forum (GameRT): Interactive Fiction	Forum/Update,Program	Anaheim Convention Center 207C

A User-Centered Theoretical Framework for Meaningful Gamification

I recently gave a talk at the Games + Learning + Society 8.0 conference on the theories behind my concept of meaningful gamification.

The conference has made the session available, so you can watch it online.

You can download the full paper, called "A User-Centered Theoretical Framework for Meaningful Gamification" at

http://scottnicholson.com/pubs/meaningfulframework.pdf

Final MIT Sabbatical video

Here's my final video from my MIT sabbatical.

By the way, this blog will continue as I continue work.  It will be more text and links to things I put together than it has been.