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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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Wired for Mobile?

07-Mar-11

Putting aside the generalizations encompassed in the term “digital natives” (e.g. not all kids these days are D.N.s) — check out what many of your students are doing, and are used to. How are we meeting them halfway? This infographic from Voxy encapsulates a slice of it. Via: Voxy Blog

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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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Crowdsourcing Learning (HSN model)

28-Jan-11

Where do your ideas for curriculum come from? HSN (yes, that one) is partnering with Quirky in an experiment to crowdsource the development of new products. Not surprisingly, the idea is aligned with the Internet-ushered-in shift that is turning consumers into creators — of content (blogs, forums, Wikipedia, etc.), of media (YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, SoundCloud, [...]

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GLS Conference Announced

26-Jan-11

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 7.0 to be held June 15–17, 2011 at the Memorial Union on campus. Session Submissions are due by Monday, 7 March 2011. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its seventh year, this grass [...]

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Linearity ≠ Learning (and Math)

24-Jan-11

Good Video Games. Is not what this post is about, but I want to plant that sentence in your head as you read this post about Learning Activities Math. I got terribly bored with learning Math in my sophomore year of High School. I did well enough in it, but was just too bored to continue. [...]

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Sweet Media Assignments!

10-Dec-10

A very talented YouTube user from Hawaii named historyteacher has her students rewrite the lyrics of popular songs to reflect lessons from world history. Cool, right? It requires them to research a topic identify key points find a song whose lyrics “fit” a few of the key points adapt other key points into lyrics to [...]

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Copyright* Needs to Die

19-Nov-10

In Wednesday’s edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education, there was a great article called “Professors Publish Guide to Copyright Issues of Multimedia Projects” with a link to a thoughtful and thought-provoking paper that examined Copyright and Web 2.0. It’s worth a read because it presents a number of common scenarios and breaks down how [...]

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Google Docs for Education

22-Sep-10

Three recent announcements position Google Docs to be the Big App On Campus. Building off the amazingly improved Collaborative Editing features (which I’ve used for conference proposals, papers, and website text design), these could transform note-taking, sharing, and student groupwork. Mobile Editing: For iPad, iPhone, and Android devices, being unable to even create and edit [...]

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Google Docs Storyboard template

27-Aug-10

Wanted to see how this looks embedded. It’s a storyboard template that I designed in Google Docs. I chose Google Docs for it because of Google Doc’s collaboration feature, which has become *really amazing* — if you haven’t tried collaborating on Google Docs lately (it used to sorta suck), you should try it now!

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