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Items that inform my research.

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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GLS 8.0 call for papers

02-Nov-11

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+ Society (GLS) Conference 8.0 to be held June 13-15, 2012, with preconference activities on June 12 including the GLS Educators Symposium and the inaugural year of the GLS Doctoral Consortium at the Memorial Union on campus. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the [...]

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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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Communities and Networks

19-May-11

I was reading “Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework” (PDF) from Wenger (the “Communities of Practice” guy) and his colleagues, and came across this section on the value, danger, and challenge of communities and networks for learning. Its application to my work is timely as we reassess our goals and priorities, and plan [...]

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Marker Music

27-Apr-11

Markermusic.com is one of the coolest place-centric mashups of user production that I’ve seen. Wow. The idea is simply to record a riff based on another riff, ala the famous YouTube video inbflat.net project. Oh here, let me steal their explanation — marker/music is an interactive sound and music map created by Darren Solomon, the students [...]

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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 [...]

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