Interactive Media

article in today's Globe mentions grammatologists Ong and Havelock

This is the work that Ulmer was mentioning last night.... It was just released!

This was mentioned in Nicholas Carr's book THE SHALLOWS: WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAINS

as a prelude to our boardgame report....

This one looks really beautiful and interesting with dual gravity systems...

This is one that was made for xBox 360 too, I believe, but it was hard to access. Wired Mag calls it "gentle poetry"....

cartoons = "image writing" / hybrids of image and text

An alternative to QR codes that I wasn't aware of....

I just read about this recently, really fascinating. It turns out the same group Foldit, is working in a similar format to develop better methods of teaching math and science in schools. And because these digital solutions are available in a virtual world, they are able to use tools like the internet to bring together gamers all over the world and really "hive mind" solutions to these scientific problems. In the article I read, the scientists talk about the flexibility the gamers have in working with 3D puzzles, and how it doesn't take long at all to solve these visual puzzles because it's just a game, and with a little bit of guidance it doesn't take long at all to catch the gamers up to speed with how proteins and enzymes 'should' fit together. Obviously there are some flexible rules, otherwise the computer would have figured it out earlier. So I just thought this application was really fantastic, especially when networked to include potentially more of the public sphere. Makes me scientifically endlessly optimistic!

an article about Padriac's documentary! Way to go...

on "gamer transfer phenomena"

a Jane McGonigal gamea

thanks to Elaine for sharing this

Examples of how QR codes can integrate multimedia elements