Week 10: Games and gamification Play

For the play activity this week we are to design and plan an outline for using gamification in a school library. Gamification is a society-wide trend. A good idea is to use game and social based techniques to encourage increased usage of resources.  Therefore a program or an item can be created that collects information about the activities of patrons within a school library. In a school library setting, this would mean students must have an item that allows them to access the library and different services of the library. With this said, all students have student cards. Nevertheless, a web application can be created that keeps track of all student activities and give students points for the activities they participate in within the library. Students can earn points by visiting the library, checking out and returning books, logging into electronic resources within the library and asking questions within the library.  With this application there can be a leaderboard to see which students participate the most. The site would have a registration page where students can log into in order to start playing. Students can then use their students number on their cards to link the cards with the site in order to participate. Rewards can develop as the school sees what students like. Perhaps a leading student or a student that wins certain activities, given that they have provided details of their preferences, can be rewarded with items that are linked to their preferences. For if a student puts that their preference in their profile for books are “fantasy” books they may be awarded with a free book such as Deltora Quest.