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Category Archives: Design

Design affects our lives in significant ways. Here are some things I’ve noticed.

Game Design group

25-Jan-12

Not just video games, game design encompasses all aspects of learning — cognition, reward systems, agency, active role-play, experiential engagement with content, low stakes risk-taking — all in a playful environment. What better way to learn? Mission In the ComETS GAME DESIGN group, we will try to model what we investigate. So, we’ll be doing [...]

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Apple iBooks EULA is a Good Thing

24-Jan-12

As a Socialist, and a proponent of public education and free access to knowledge, I’d like to suggest that Apple EULA is essentially saying: “We developed this publishing system (at great cost, no doubt), and are willing to give it away for free to anyone who would like to use it to create and freely [...]

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Game Frame for Learning (ARIS)

03-Jan-12

I’ve been researching different aspects of GPS-enhanced place-based learning since 2004, and creating mobile, place-based learning games and experiences since 2005. Since meeting with the initial ARIS developers in 2008, and joining the project full-time (2009), I’ve been pushing for easier access and general-use capabilities — to make the entry point as broadly accessible as possible. In [...]

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Addition Idea

27-Dec-11

It’s cold out now. And dark. Winter is depressing. And the 500 square-foot apartment that I share with my dog can seem very small when I’m holed up in it for too many months. To enter my apartment, through its “front” door, I currently have to walk up some rickety steps to an old deck [...]

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DESIGN Literacy

29-Sep-11

When was the last time you sent something you’d written to the typing pool to get it typed up? Since last week, when I was surprised that the (very nice) poster I had designed and printed cost $650, I’ve been really putting a lot of thought into the weight of visual communications, and the real [...]

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ARIS Design Jam, Oct 17-19

23-Sep-11

Come join us in the Town Center of WID for 3 days of ARIS design!* No experience needed (but we encourage you to play with it ahead of time!) — we will have “how-to” components for those who are new to ARIS or need help designing their first ARIS game. We will also run a series of [...]

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2005 GeoAnnotation

01-Sep-11

It’s 2011, and yesterday at our #ARISgames.org meeting, the programmers demoed some of the data collection things that they were working on for ARIS v 1.6. It’s like a dream come true. video platform video management video solutionsvideo player In 2006, I lobbied for a web-based version of MIT’s River City Augmented reality editor. ARIS delivered [...]

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ARIS, an Arduino board, and a gong.

15-Aug-11

One of the things I love about my job is that I get to play with stuff like this. ARIS is moving from virtual reality to real reality. Cool stuff from our programmers!

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ARIS Global Game Jam 2011

26-Apr-11

If you’ve not already read about in the Daily Page or on MacArthur’s Digital Media Spotlight, on April 18-20, we held our first “Global” ARIS jam. There were over a hundred participants from Columbia, the Netherlands, and Spain, and the U.S. including folks from the Minnesota Historical Society, 3M, Oregon Middle School, Whitewater Middle School, [...]

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Mass Customization in Learning

14-Apr-11

An interesting article, Why Large-Scale Product Customization Is Finally Viable for Business, coming out of Forrester discusses how Mass Customization is the Next Big Thing in industry. But the points made are pervading all aspects of society. Consider this excerpt: Psychologists have determined that an “I Designed It Myself Effect” exists in mass customization, where buyers feel a [...]