aw shucks....a serious game? Well, game on then...

you guys are just great. what a team. ol thought coach is just jazzed about being a part of this unfolding 'serious game.' many ways to score, many more to win, but the one we're groovin on right now is organizing to play the serious game of how to relieve student debt by validated service equity. just startin ' that up!! Wow--can you see it? the serious game would involve getting our teams together and play for that championship: the best plan to lobby the White House to enter the dialogue. How do we bring the President to the table? That's a serious game by golly. That serious game requires an NCAA-like model of scholarship: The DMSC Governors Challenge, which will work tirelessly to help leverage the 500 million $ Tennessee just won in Race to the Top funds. Well, game on.

I've got tremendously positive feedback on my letter i sent yesterday. Here's a copy:

Dear Colleagues:

Next week, April 15, we will be creating a day-long social networking blast from the lovely confines of Nashville State Community College.

We'll be sending out text that you can forward to facebook, twitter and old school email networks and listservs.

GovChal is recruiting media and researchers who will judge media over a two month Virtual Institute and name a knowledge champion. Prizes will be announced.

Please visit our site at www.sandboxnetwork.org and register to:

I. Enter media as a student or faculty producer representing your university (2 or 4 year schools!) in our Governors Challenge. We have three networks to choose from:

1. Academic Network: Instructional media originating in courses.
2. Feature Network: Free-style creative work: videos, music, spoken word, etc.
3. Engagement Network: Service Learning/ Civic Engagement

See links on Governors Challenge page for details!

II. Register as researchers to help us assessment and process analytics of tournament data in honor code-based open source guided system. Our Semantic Assessment © combines quantitative, semantic and qualitative tiers: quick, simple, powerful data for analytics that quantify quality.

This analytics portion works as formative assessment data for any project-based course; analytics strengthens academic service learning reflection summative reporting.

And along the way name a national knowledge champion!

We are also organizing a ‘serious game’ campaign to lobby for student debt forgiveness based on validated service projects.

DMSC GovChal will utilize grass-roots social networking to advance this goal, which will begin lobbying the White House to consider this kind of social enterprise/entrepreneurially-flavored Service Learning and Civic Engagement.

The students have spoken and the GovChal is all ears!

Register for either production and/or research and our team will be in touch to help you grow your own knowledge portfolio using the govchal guided system of:

1. Research/Produce Media
2. Assess
3. Analyze data/revise
4. Publish

The model transfers easily to any interdisciplinary course. Join us as we engage this exciting new guided system of knowledge making and sharing.

Get ready for the Blast on 4.15.10! Please forward to your networks!!

best,

bob bradley (ol' thought coach (OTL))

Like i said: Game on...