Bonus -Test and Iterate your Challenge [Jan. 16, 2012, 1:15 p.m.]
Once you have created your first challenge you can think of it as a growing organism constantly evolving based on testing and iteration. You can test your challenge in three phases; first go through it yourself, then have other experienced users play through and then have new users test it out. Learn from this process and find ways to incorporate the feedback through various iterations even after you have gone through the initial testing.
To complete this challenge test at least one of your peers' challenge. Try to finish the challenge and answer (some of) the following questions.
- How long did it take you to complete?
- Was the challenge fun? What in specific was fun to do?
- What are the skills you think this challenge aims to teach the learner? How important are they to pursuing the challenge?
- What other activities, games, websites do you know that teach something similar?
- Is this challenge worth playing again? Would it lead to different outcomes?
- How clear and simple were the titles and descriptions?
- How hard was this challenge to accomplish?
- Any other adjustments you would make?
If you have collected some feedback about your own challenge and you feel that it could benefit from a revision then go ahead edit your challenge and post a new iteration of your masterpiece on the discussion wall.