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If you’re reading this post out of interest but unsure what the QuizIt Champion app (aka just ‘QuizIt’ for short) is about, then lets first cover the essentials of what this app is. QuizIt is a gamified quiz app with a twist. Built for students to further engage and consolidate their learning by creating and answering QuizIts, […]
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Following a few meetings to discuss progress and future developments, the decision has been taken to start gathering some early feedback from the project. There are a few key areas we want to target some basic gaming elements for this resource in order for the content to be as absorbing as possible and therefore engage […]
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — UK’s Cambridge Research Institute have developed a mobile game utilising gene microarrays that could actually help researchers find a cure for cancer. “Researchers use gene microarrays to look for regions of our genome that are frequently faulty in different cancers–a sign that they may be responsible for […]
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Building an early prototype After some discussions among the team members and the stakeholder (student), development started on a prototype using the drawings from the original project by our Year 4 student. These drawings were scanned and carefully traced in Flash before being outputted as a spritesheet (png and xml) and imported into a Flash […]
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — This project aims to develop a novel comic book called ‘Enzyme Digest’. It is based on the enzymes of the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract and aimed at first year medical students. Each enzyme has been granted a character to enhance the learner’s memory and recall. The comic book […]
Tag: Game based learning
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QuizIt Champion: App update with lots of improvements
If you’re reading this post out of interest but unsure what the QuizIt Champion app (aka just ‘QuizIt’ for short) is about, then lets first cover the essentials of what this app is. QuizIt is a gamified quiz app with a twist. Built for students to further engage and consolidate their learning by creating and answering QuizIts, […]
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Interactive Comic Book – Prioritising user feedback to fuel future developments
Following a few meetings to discuss progress and future developments, the decision has been taken to start gathering some early feedback from the project. There are a few key areas we want to target some basic gaming elements for this resource in order for the content to be as absorbing as possible and therefore engage […]
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Gene microarrays, mobile game and cancer cure
— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — UK’s Cambridge Research Institute have developed a mobile game utilising gene microarrays that could actually help researchers find a cure for cancer. “Researchers use gene microarrays to look for regions of our genome that are frequently faulty in different cancers–a sign that they may be responsible for […]
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Interactive Comic Book – Creating 1st prototype
Building an early prototype After some discussions among the team members and the stakeholder (student), development started on a prototype using the drawings from the original project by our Year 4 student. These drawings were scanned and carefully traced in Flash before being outputted as a spritesheet (png and xml) and imported into a Flash […]
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Interactive comic strips in improving understanding of medical concepts
— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — This project aims to develop a novel comic book called ‘Enzyme Digest’. It is based on the enzymes of the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract and aimed at first year medical students. Each enzyme has been granted a character to enhance the learner’s memory and recall. The comic book […]