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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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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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2011 Horizon Report

28-Feb-11

The new Horizon Report has been out for a few days. The Six Technologies are no surprise to those of us who have been advocating and developing mobile learning practices and tools. They are: mobile computing open content electronic books simple augmented reality gesture-based computing visual data analysis If these look at all familiar, it [...]

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Rhoten on Digital Learners

10-May-10

This is one of the most clearly articulated arguments that I’ve heard for incorporating Digital Media Assignments (and other disruptive learner-centered technologies) into learning. And a professional video to boot.

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Mobile Learning

21-Apr-10

Yesterday I presented to the University of Wisconsin System’s Learning Technology Development Council on Mobile Learning, and how the university-style of instruction must change to adapt to the style of learning that mobile technologies have made common-place. A few key points: With 24/7 access to trusted sources of information in their pockets, students no longer need to [...]

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New Model for Schooling

13-Apr-10

At the Showcase 2010 lunch, I heard that UW-Madison is looking (and has the support of administration) for innovative ideas to create and implement idea-sharing and interdisciplinary connections — ones that encourage entire campus buy-in. Especially since this is in line with the Wisconsin Idea that asks us to reach beyond the walls of the classroom to [...]

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Campus as Game

30-Mar-10

In a previous post, I talked about Lee Sheldon’s course at IU, that’s structured as a game, with its integration of game-like components (students leveling up, etc.). I was talking to a colleague about the addictive nature of Foursquare (although I’m lacking an overly addictive personality), and the lure of becoming “Mayor” of someplace, and [...]