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Ed Parker

Gamification: Turning Work Into Play | h+ Magazine - 0 views

  • Professor Byron Reeves, who champions the adaptation of gaming technologies for the workplace.
  • David Helgason of Unity, a company that produces game development tools for the Web, mobile phones, and the Wii announced “The Year of Gamification” on the Unity blog
  • gamification is the application of game technology and game design outside “gamespace” and the acceptance of games in non-gaming sectors.
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  • Quartier Saint-Blaise, a model of Paris that allows people to navigate through proposed urban planning projects
  • The use of game design techniques is an important part of what you call ‘gamification.’
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  • They did some very large experiments teaching kids with Sim City and The Sims — just playing the games. But these games are extremely rich in knowledge and structural understanding. You can communicate an understanding of a society and how a society works.
  • In education, you have these terms. One is what you can remember in a multiple choice test right after you learn, and then how much you remember a week after, a month later, and the third is how well you can apply this knowledge in a completely different area. It turned out that retention was pretty good, but the application of this knowledge was very stron
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    "Gamification is the application of game technology and game design outside "gamespace" and the acceptance of games in non-gaming sectors"
Doug Blandy

How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think - 1 views

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    The Edge question for 2010 is "How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?" Playwright Richard Foreman asks about the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the "instantly available". Is it a new self? Are we becoming Pancake People - spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button. Technology analyst Nicholas Carr wrote the most notable of many magazine and newspaper pieces asking "Is Google Making Us Stupid". Has the use of the Web made it impossible for us to read long pieces of writing? Social software guru Clay Shirky notes that people are reading more than ever but the return of reading has not brought about the return of the cultural icons we'd been emptily praising all these years. "What's so great about War and Peace?, he wonders. Having lost its actual centrality some time ago, the literary world is now losing its normative hold on culture as well. Is the enormity of the historical shift away from literary culture now finally becoming clear? Science historian George Dyson asks "what if the cost of machines that think is people who don't?" He wonders "will books end up back where they started, locked away in monasteries and read by a select few?". Web 2.0 pioneer Tim O'Reilly, ponders if ideas themselves are the ultimate social software. Do they evolve via the conversations we have with each other, the artifacts we create, and the stories we tell to explain them? Frank Schirrmacher, Feuilleton Editor and Co-Publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has noticed that we are apparently now in a situation where modern technology is changing the way people behave, people talk, people react, people think, and people remember. Are we turning into a new species - informavores? - he asks. W. Daniel Hillis goes a step further by asking if the Internet will, in the long run, arrive at a muc
Eric Schiff

Mobile apps and the arts: where we are and where we're going | Technology in the Arts |... - 1 views

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    Interesting read on forecasting the fit for mobile apps in the arts.
Eric Schiff

interactions magazine | The Transmedia Design Challenge: Technology that is Pleasurable... - 1 views

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    Very well written piece by Don Norman.
John Fenn

MIT TechTV - Session 3: Transmedia for Social Change - 1 views

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    This panel will broaden the discussion of transmedia properties to areas beyond the commercial or promotional. What are the potentials for transmedia to be used to affect social change? What parallels can we draw between the activities fan communities and other sites of collective activity? How does participation in the collectives that emerge around transmedia properties equip young people with skills as citizens? What responsibilities should corporations bear, if any, as they try to court fan communities and deep engagement? 
Doug Blandy

Video Vortex 5 - 0 views

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    Video Vortex "focuses on the status and potential of the moving image on the Internet..." Over the past years the place of the moving image on the Internet has become increasingly prominent. With a wide range of technologies and web applications within anyone's reach, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension. How is this potential being used? How do artists and other political and social actors react to the popularity of YouTube and other 'user-generated-content' websites? What does YouTube tell us about the state of contemporary visual culture? And how can the participation culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass media and the strong grip of media conglomerates?"
Eric Schiff

10 Reasons Why Apple iPad Is Highly Qualified for Enterprise Role - Mobile and Wireless... - 1 views

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    Interesting take on iPad purposing in the corporate world - has implications for educational computing across the spectrum of transmedia application opportunities.
Eric Schiff

Q&A: Transmedia guru Henry Jenkins on 'Lost,' negative capability and that 'Sopranos' e... - 0 views

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    Good interview, commentary.
Eric Schiff

Thoughts on Transmedia Storytelling, or, Is It Right for Every Story? | Booksquare - 0 views

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    Interesting discussion on tools, applications, and the fit to the story.
Eric Schiff

How Transmedia Storytelling and Open Distribution are Remaking Audiences: Web 2.0 Expo ... - 0 views

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    Upcoming Expo - bookmarked this fr the question set.
Eric Schiff

The Changing Face Of The Transmedia Experience - PSFK - 0 views

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    This is a really good piece - the Jawbone.tv series on transmedia experiences and film production is def worth it as well. Link from this - I'll also post that bookmark.
Eric Schiff

Transmedia Storyteller - 3 views

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    Nice presentation summing concept and contextualizing transmedia.
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