#cheeseholic

[goatsmell]

Just About February

I don’t have a reason To be restless The steak was perfect The weather not bad The weed was good Well, actually spectacular

And it paired well With this big pinty glass Of Kilkenny sitting on the desk After all that rare steak And all that fried chicken I inhaled like my last meal (And maybe it was)

Well, I haven’t a complaint On this earth Just an untidy Sort of restlessness Like an unmade bed In a respectable hotel The throw pillow thrown Into an unlived-in corner

God, what’s up my ass? What are all my Prickly little grievances?

It’s a bit of a list, mostly About what I want But don’t currently have Or who, or it’s something To do with where I am Be it spiritually, socially Psychically, positionally Or God knows what else I feel I lack in my Ever-shortening life, and At any given rocket-ride Rollercoaster moment Of every sludge-drudge day

Though, Everything is oddly and easily Fixed by stuffing a good hunk Of Havarti into my cheesehole

Oh, mercy There’s so many Grains of sand in an Impatience sandcastle

Fussy little things Hardly worth the bother Really

I carry that long list Of piss-offs, Great and small, Around with me In case I journey Into a place where There’s not enough Shit tickets And the danger is Clear and so present

Figuratively, Of course

Though, I can’t see my ploughed-up Ground ever being smooth

Perhaps, It’s better to plant seeds now that I’m churned up and fertile Like a young vole in season?

And I could Shear sheep with a butter knife Argue gently with the ground And the swarms of bugs And the fickle weather And build a homestead on This good, God-given land

I could even Make a name for myself In the area, and maybe Even dance with Death A bit and hand her off To a close friend Or a kind stranger

Oh, Life is an immense thing Full of rest and motion, and Speeds relative to ground

[nothingtodowiththatpartridge]

It's not gamification!

Gamification is the use of any mechanism of a game in a non-game environment. [Disclaimer: there are other definitions available].

My energy provider, Octopus, has a wheel of fortune that you can spin when you submit a meter reading, if you install a smart meter, or once a month just for logging into the app. At its simplest, gamification can be about getting rewards for exhibiting behaviour, or performing in a way that the "gamesmaster" wants to encourage.

Gamification can also be used in learning. I would argue our whole education system is set up that way. Through exams and other assessments the learners earn points, points mean certificates, certificates get you entry to the next level, or advantages within levels, and there is no doubt that there is a "boss" to defeat at the end of every level of learning. Conclusion: gamification is not necessarily "fun".

When I am introduced as an expert in gamification, I am not being humble when I disclaim the title. What I do is game-based learning. However, this phrase also falls short as it doesn't capture the spirit of play that I like to get into the classroom wherever I can. Game-based learning is very much pre-planned and premeditated. My colleagues in the Playful Learning Association have the same issue. Nic Whitton who is one of my go-to experts told me she calls it Ludification.

Nic is not the only one, I like this ludification definition from Updigital translated from the Dutch:

"Ludification is the process of adding the fun aspect to something that is initially not. The purpose of ludification is to reduce the pain that a user may encounter in engaging in a not-so-fun process."

As a marketer and educator I am used to reducing the friction between the learner/customer/player and the behaviour we want them to adopt. As a marketer I promote something on the basis that it reduces the customers' pain. As a teacher, I know that learning can be uncomfortable, I talk about the Conscious Competence learning model a lot, and am very aware that when you make a learner conscious of their incompetence, that's not a comfortable place to be. As leaders of learning we need to signpost the way out of discomfort and to competence quickly, whilst these days also justifying the desirability of said competence - using those marketing skills again.

I'm not even interested in gamification elements such as leaderboards, timers, etc, as these are all competitive elements of games. Even in my escape games, the timer counts up, not down. It's a matter of interest or logistics, not a race. I am much more concerned with games involving collaboration and co-creation. I have recently become aware of "keepsake games"* where the players create their own record of their playful journey. I create sessions and activities with cheeseholes - a wonderful phrase from transmedia - for learners to add their own learning. Being playful for me means changing assumptions; one of those assumptions being that the person running the session is the one with all the knowledge or even the most knowledge.

As AI renders several traditional methods of assessment useless, getting students to co-create with each other, and even their tutors in this way, can help ensure that the result is a plagiarism-free artefact.

Gamification is not at all synonymous with game-based learning. Knowing which you are attempting is the start of your journey.

For more on Keepsake Games I recommend Shing Yin Khor's blog post and their Patreon, or a goggle at Tim Hutching's amazing work.

[gabyglifestyle]

Best #munchies EVAR!!!! #midnightmunchies @marcusanina #perfectbread #cheeseplatter #micehavenothingonme #cheeseholic (at Carmel, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFWaVVuMohjgLQG-VazrlNqTP8SdBi7WLT1Vio0/?igshid=odjz2v0siogz

[ncity-world]

Happy one year anniversary to the first lockdown. Damn I cannot believe it's been a whole year.

[silvadraconis]

Anyone ever post/reblog something

And then one of your mutuals reblogs it so it shows up on you dash again, and you, forgetting for hot sec that you initially posted/rebloged that go “oh that’s a cool/funny post, ima reblog that” and catch yourself just in time as you realize they rebloged it from you?

[gastropost]

From Gastroposter Faye Gong, via Instagram:

Still from 2016- What is life without chocolate? German chocolate cake, chocolate pistachio torte, chocolate caramel cake, chocolate coconut tres leches cake, chocolate marble cake, triple chocolate chip cookies, chocolate brownies and my favorite chocolate drink from Trader Joe's.

[anxiousgaypanicking]

a friend of mine recommended all of your writing to us in a chat and i've speed read through the Logan sugar baby saga.

God i haven't laughed so much in a while/pos

Some of Logan's complaints hit to close to home djdjdjks. Like he's not wrong but he has no buisness calling us all out like that.

Anyway, i love all of their bickering and Logan's cheesehole vocabulary so much.

oh my gosh, thank you! im so glad that you not only liked it, but also that your friends seemed to like it so much they were willing to recommend it. im so legitimately honored /pos

[scarlet-runner-bean]

cheesehole-a

[darkdreamsofthemoon]

Regardless, she is not my god and I will not worship her as Twilight does. She can't even over power a cheesehole bug pony queen. What use is your sister anyway? She never reached out to either Diamond nor I when we had no other guidance from our parents. In fact, one could argue she stacked the deck against us in favor of her three favorite little bl... but I digress. I just can't see how those three misguided missiles became guidance counselors without a little "divine" intervention.

“Sister has always played favorites. I suppose it’s what happens when you live your life as the favorite, but I imagine those three being related to the bearers of the Elements was enough to get her attention. She was a powerful and noble ruler, once upon a time...I wonder if years of peace have dulled her edges.”

[ear]

transformice is a game about mice who bring cheese into the uhhh cheesehole while an ultra mouse builds some shit to get to the cheese and the cheesehole.

Bring Cheese To The Cheesehole Using The Power Of The Ultra Mouse

[phoebesdead]

I don’t like cheese , unless it come to burrata…but my man does - addicted to . So guess im a cheeseholic now . It not what, but who u eat with that matter the most 🧀
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByQexhCpdk4/?igshid=1v9p9vto615mw

[estebanwaseaten]

I went disco on these cheeseholes

[johnreardontattoos]

Fun times! Thanks @alexpetty Cheese holes are the best for filling awkward spaces. #cheeseholes #greenpointtattooco #johnreardon #johnreardontattoos (at Greenpoint Tattoo Company)

[quanrel]

CheeseHole PRO - Marsu Vanakhun

CheeseHole PRO – Marsu Vanakhun

CheeseHole PRO Marsu Vanakhun Genre: Games Price: $1.99 Release Date: September 9, 2017 © © 2017 Marsu Vanakhun Find out more

[ncity-world]

Lockdown 2.0

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[organik-productions]

Prepare your cheesehole, haha