Clinton Mosley, 4th Grade Teacher, Maple Elementary School, Fullerton, California, 2015 MS in Ed Tech Graduate

Have you ever thought about integrating gaming into your classroom? I talk with Clinton Mosley about what he does with gaming in his fourth grade classroom. Clinton teaches in the Fullerton School District (Fullerton, California) at Maple Elementary School. He shares how he has integrated choose your own adventures quests into the curriculum and gamified these quests. Clinton provides advise for teachers interested in adventuring into gaming with their students.

Mentioned in the podcast session:

• 3D-Game Labs (now Rezzly) – http://rezzly.com/
• Choose Your Own Adventures (if you are unfamliar with the concept) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure – Clinton discusses how he has created his own digital versions. I’m sure he’d share one with you.
• Classcraft – a classroom gaming platform – https://www.classcraft.com/
• Class DoJo for gamifying elements of your classroom using points – http://classdojo.com/
• Answerables – an immersive 3D learning environment Clinton talks about that he is beta-testing – https://answerables.com/

Bio: Clinton Mosley is currently a 4th grade teacher at Maple Elementary in the Fullerton School District. He has been teaching for 9 years, two years as a 6th grade teacher at Temple Academy in the Hacienda/La Puenta School District, and seven years at Maple. An important aspect of his teaching style is using his talents in the performing arts and incorporating them into the classroom. Gamifying the classroom is another aspect of teaching that he is passionate about. He has been instrumental in the process of incorporating instructional content into the iPersonalize gaming platform being used in the FSD. Teaching and helping people be the best they can be is his mission and passion.

You can find Clinton on Twitter at @411techteacher

Clinton is a 2015 graduate of the MS in Educational Technology graduate program.