5. CommunityTeamworkRelationships ExperiencesSharingEntertainment EncouragementCooperativeUseful

6. High School Graduates 74.7% Two-Year College Graduates 82.7% Four-Year College Graduates 94.4% 80% of voters felt the skill’s students needed to know for today’s 21st century jobs are much different than they were twenty years ago. 21st Century Workforce Readiness Teamwork & Collaboration

7. Learning through Video Games “Video games have the potential to change the landscape of education as we know it.” 56% of students see the potential of using games in education. Opportunity to test student’s assumptions. Allow student’s to take risks in a safe environment.

8. MMORPGs MMORPGs are very social environments. Quests are too difficult to complete alone. “Students become the experts … and emerge as leaders.” Join together to accomplish collective goals. Which looks more engaged?

9. “The social skills learned in these environments are highly transferable to real life. After all, providing leadership for and managing over 100 people is an incredibly complex task no matter where it occurs.”

10. Survey on prior knowledge and social skills 12 people, 14-39 yrs. old Setting up Ventrilo for communication Character creation and name selection Journey into Guild Wars All cycle 1 planning can be found on my website at: http://levonda.com/AR/Cycle_1.html

11. Engaging participants through in-game quests/missions, voice interaction, and discussion boards. Participants becoming the experts and leaders who help teach others. Participants working together as a team all with the same goal in mind.

12. All cycle 1 data is available on my website at: http://levonda.com/AR/C1_Data.html

13. 7 people, 14-26 yrs. old Increase daily session time Balancing out the team Headsets with mics for everyone Mission planning on discussion board All cycle 2 planning can be found on my website at: http://levonda.com/AR/Cycle_2.html

14. All cycle 2 data is available on my website at: http://levonda.com/AR/C2_Data.html

15. Teamwork check Communication Thumbs Up! Leadership (try again)