Juliana, Everything you've mentioned is great and I like the sentiment. Anything that helps students learn is terrific, and fun activities can be meaningful ways to reinforce needed knowledge. It's the awarding of points that I have difficulty with. In my view, if an activity is fun and students enjoy it, they will not care whether there are points given for participating. As someone in healthcare too, I want students earning points and grades that accurately measure their learning, i.e., I don't want a "C" student earning a grade of "A" (as the result of extra points), then going out to clinical practice with incomplete knowledge or sloppy clinical skills. They call this grade inflation and for me, I choose not to give extra credit. But each teacher and institution has to decide what works best for them, and I can acknowledge there are different views. Barry Westling