Tuesday morning at the 2009 AERA (American Educational Research Association) annual meeting, Kurt Squire, Jim Mathews, and I presented for 45 minutes on using mobile media to make place-based games. Afterwards some folks came up and asked if that presentation were going to be available online. We hadn’t thought about it, but decided that we [...]
Mobile Birding App and Geologger Let’s call this idea “BirdApp” and make it for the iPhone (or any location-aware handheld computer with internet access). [Update: Apparently I didn't get this posted soon enough. There's already an iPhone bird guide App called iBird (of course). It doesn't include my Shazam-like idea to help identify birds by their song, but it does [...]
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A Panacea for Local Learning Mobile technology is a panacea* for learning, and warrants a full rethinking of how we structure public education. This is a strong statement, but one that I feel deserves consideration. Where We Learn A major game-changer in learning (but less so in formal education) was the development of the Internet [...]
Into the Woods: Fear, Masculinity, and Video Games Hit the Trail Link to paper [256KB PDF] Last week was the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) and National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) in Houston, TX (link). Proposed by Steve Camicia of Utah State, the symposium I was on included Simone Schweber of UW-Madison, Jeremy Stoddard [...]
New Technologies for Local Learning On Friday, November 7, at the Green Charter Schools Conference, I was invited to present on my research on place-based games in the “Outta-The-Box” Schools & Anywhere, Anytime Learning section. Technological innovations are changing the ways young people learn. In innovative new environment-focused schools, students can attain knowledge and skills through mobile and [...]
Mobile Geotagging for Landowners The other day I met with Mary Sisock, a doctoral student in Forestry here at UW-Madison. She’d been told to track me down and ask about using AR in her research. My initial thoughts were “how can AR be used in Forestry? — I don’t know…” and I wondered how fictional stories [...]
Mobile Geotagging to Identify Campus Identity Last Spring, Gwen Drury contacted me about incorporating AR in the planning for a new Union South at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Problem: The UW is redoing Union South to the tune of a couple million bucks, and she wanted to know if AR could help them figure out how best to do [...]
Where Have I Been? Apologies to myself and anyone else for the delay in updating this. Facebook now gets the daily status updates, and I’ve been knee-deep at camp all summer. Fall is quickly approaching, and I’m writing up the last bits of my dissertation, tightening up what I’ve already written and prepping a bunch of [...]
iPhone paves way for Locative Google (more PBI) The biggest announcement at Macworld San Francisco Keynote was not the MacBook Air. It was that the Google Maps “App” on the iPhone is now location-sensitive. Press the “Location button” to the left of the Search button in the pic, and the map shows you where you [...]
