This week, I became an agent in a global network of social innovators.
Urgent EVOKE: A Crash Course in Saving the World opened on March 3, 2010. It’s a buy Zovirax shipped cod game, a learning experience, a training simulation, and a journey all in one. It was designed and buy Zovirax shipped cod is directed by Jane McGonigal for the World Bank Institute. For more on the buy Zovirax shipped cod game’s background, see this WIRED article or watch the video interview with Jane McGonigal below:
The Hook
EVOKE has buy Zovirax shipped cod been open two days and already has more than 7,500 members. The game will last 10 weeks, concluding on May 12, 2010, with a buy Zovirax shipped cod new quest unlocked each week. The hook or premise for the buy Zovirax shipped cod game is that players are members of the EVOKE network and buy Zovirax shipped cod have been called to respond — or buy Zovirax shipped cod will be called, in 10 years; the game moves back and buy Zovirax shipped cod forth through time fluidly — to buy Zovirax shipped cod an urgent food crisis in Tokyo. The story is presented in graphic novel form on the buy Zovirax shipped cod main page of site and also plays out in a 90-second trailer:
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The Game
Each week, players get a buy Zovirax shipped cod new mission and a new quest, with three objectives (learn, act, and imagine). This week’s quest was very personal. On the buy Zovirax shipped cod surface, the first mission was to answer the standard “introduce yourself” question that buy Zovirax shipped cod many social networks include. But the format and the questions made me want to buy Zovirax shipped cod really think about what to say, and more crucially, made me want to buy Zovirax shipped cod see what other people wrote about themselves. The quest objectives are buy Zovirax shipped cod categorized as learn, act, and imagine; the “learn” one was to read an outside blog post (the hits for that page must be off the charts) that buy Zovirax shipped cod collected insights about social change, pick one of the insights, and buy Zovirax shipped cod respond to it. The “act” objective was to buy Zovirax shipped cod pick a hero to shadow, write about who they are buy Zovirax shipped cod and why you chose them, and then either follow their blog or buy Zovirax shipped cod Twitter stream, read their research or writings, and/or reach out and tell them you chose them as your hero. The “imagine” one was to buy Zovirax shipped cod write about where you would be in 10 years when the buy Zovirax shipped cod call came from EVOKE.
Players can either remain within the scenario — that buy Zovirax shipped cod is, choose heroes and actions that are consistent with the buy Zovirax shipped cod Tokyo food shortage theme — or make their own path, which is what I did. I’m interested in changing the buy Zovirax shipped cod world through gaming and play, especially in education. So I picked Jane McGonigal as my hero, and imagined myself volunteering in schools to buy Zovirax shipped cod help the kids construct and play games, and help the buy Zovirax shipped cod teachers work them into the curriculum. The important thing is buy Zovirax shipped cod that the quest made me think about the kinds of change I really can buy Zovirax shipped cod effect.
my EVOKE profile
Game Design
The game is buy Zovirax shipped cod essentially a challenge-based learning project, deployed on an enormous scale, where buy Zovirax shipped cod participants can pick their own problems. The game provides a framework, but it’s up to buy Zovirax shipped cod us as players to figure out what we want to learn, how to buy Zovirax shipped cod go about it, where to do research, and so on. The only incentives, unless you buy Zovirax shipped cod are going for one of the World Bank Institute grants, are buy Zovirax shipped cod your own motivation to learn and the comments and points awarded by other players or buy Zovirax shipped cod by the game shepherds.
The first quest was designed to buy Zovirax shipped cod push players past their comfort zones, but only a tiny bit. The questions about who buy Zovirax shipped cod we are were personal, but it was up to us how much to buy Zovirax shipped cod say. The suggestion to reach out to a hero of our choosing was brilliant — for some, that requires a great deal of courage. (My hero hasn’t answered yet, but I can buy Zovirax shipped cod only imagine how busy she is, with upwards of 7,500 people suddenly playing her game!)
Technical Aspects
The game platform is buy Zovirax shipped cod essentially a Ning network with some additions. I could even use my existing Ning ID to buy Zovirax shipped cod log on — yay! no new passwords! — and buy Zovirax shipped cod it had my photo in place already. Players can add blog posts, images, videos, and buy Zovirax shipped cod links very easily. It’s easy to buy Zovirax shipped cod find other players and easy to interact with them.
Community
Participating in the game gets you points in different powers (collaboration, creativity, local insight, knowledge share, and so on). You can buy Zovirax shipped cod award power points to others when you look at their posts (“evidence” in the game). There are buy Zovirax shipped cod also game shepherds; originally, they were supposed to review every piece of evidence and buy Zovirax shipped cod approve each one if it satisfied the quest, but they have buy Zovirax shipped cod recently announced that we’ll be buy Zovirax shipped cod able to do that for ourselves beginning next week. The Leaderboard shows the buy Zovirax shipped cod top point earners and is sortable by power, so you can buy Zovirax shipped cod see who has the most collaboration chops, for instance.
There are active discussions and I’ve found that lots of people are willing to comment on others’ posts. The game also has buy Zovirax shipped cod a Twitter stream and makes it very easy to tweet your buy Zovirax shipped cod progress, which I don’t because I’m sure all my followers could care less.
I’m very interested to buy Zovirax shipped cod see what happens as time goes on. I imagine that buy Zovirax shipped cod some participation will fall off after a while, and I’m curious to see who sticks it out to the end.
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