Interactive Media

Games On The Brain By RPS on January 24th, 2013 at 3:00 pm. The relationship between gaming and depression tend to only be addressed by sensational misinterpretation of studies by the mainstream press.

subtitle: "Interactive educational games that are collaborative and focus on 'social good' can boost girls' participation, experts say"

This is a good follow-up to our discussion last night regarding how schools are trying to incorporate gaming to make them more relevant/engaging... subtitle of article is "Interactive educational games that are collaborative and focus on 'social good' can boost girls' participation, experts say."

What do you think will be the WAAAAAY OF THE FUUUUTUUURREEE: educational games or creating lesson plans around mainstream games (the better question may be, how these things will manifest)?

Schooling is already a game. Point systems, frequent feedback, rewards. The first step is to recognize that. Second step is to use technology to implement on smaller scales, by which I mean minute to minute instead of week to week or semester to semester(which we see here). Honestly it is done already in kindergarden with the stars on the board acting as a leaderboard. I am confused as to why that is abandoned after graduating to 3rd or 4th grade(we "grow out" of one of the best forms of motivation?!). Gamifying schools is a matter of refinement not overhaul. The question to me is what should be rewarded.

A great set of resources for learning to use and create inside of Google Earth.

Some tips on adding your google sketchup model to Google Earth. Google sketchup allows you to create 3d models easily and now you can place them directly in google earth, really cool!

A humorous interactive google map

allows you to add links to parts of a picture...

just discovered this Emmy Award while browsing the argn.com ARGnet site for alternate reality games....