Hi Yashvi,

Thank you for writing such an informative post about the benefits of gamification in the learning environment! I appreciate that you explained what gamification was, prior to relating it to your personal experience. This formatting made it easy to understand the topic, and enabled your blog post to flow in a logical manner. The one question I have is: I wonder if adding section headers for each of your segments of text would make your formatting clearer?

In addition to the logical flow of your blog post, I also liked that you added both photos and videos to your post. I especially enjoyed the video you selected which explained Kahoot, for it applied the Modality Principle by pairing graphics with narration (Mayer, 2014). In doing so, the video effectively delivered information by not visually overloading viewers with both animations, and on-screen text. Further, while learning about gamification in our readings this week, iClicker questions came to mind for me too; therefore, I enjoyed reading about your experiences with them, and how they helped contribute to your learning. Like you, I also found I was more motivated to complete assigned readings for classes which had iClicker questions, and the class environments were often more engaging and collaborative.

Awesome post!

Xinh

References

Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2014). The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139547369