Parsons Talk: Pervasive Games for Experiential Media Arts Education
If you’re in NYC, you might want to check out my talk at the Design and Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. I will be presenting Reality Ends Here and some ideas about the role of applied pervasive games in education. Hope to see you there.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Technology News
News and opinion regarding technology and education.…
Building a Digital Map of Scholarly Archival Materials
Posted 13 May 2012 | 5:00 am
Hot Type: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
Posted 6 May 2012 | 4:01 am
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Team Up to Promote Digital Textbooks
Posted 30 April 2012 | 11:00 pm
Social Networks for Academics Proliferate, Despite Some Scholars' Doubts
Posted 29 April 2012 | 4:01 am
Debate at N.Y. Public Library: Can Off-Site Storage Work for Researchers?
Posted 22 April 2012 | 4:01 am
Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between…
interactive.usc.edu
Designed for the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, this project provides students and faculty with extensive microblogging capabilities (including the ability to embed media artifacts such as videos and images in status updates), an achievements system geared toward encouraging participation and awareness of the history and practice of interactive media-making, and a member profile infrastructure that integrates numerous social media features.
Learning by ARG: an interview with Mela Kocher Lennstroem
Mela Kocher Lennstroem is a Swiss games researcher currently living in San Diego, where she conducts post-doctoral research on “the blurring of reality and fiction in digital media, especially in ARGs.”
ARGs in institutions: museums, libraries, schools, and beyond
This resource contains examples of alternate reality games (ARGs) created for museums, libraries, schools, and government agencies. Also included are links to related resources, designers, observers, and policy-makers.
Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings
Henry Jenkins’ New Media Literacies class has been a treasure-trove of readings and insights. Three recent articles covered in class struck me as particularly essential for anyone who’s looking to build an understanding of what multimodal communication is and how transmedia relates to education, literacy and literature.
School For Corn
The school is set up on ten tabletops with different learning stations, with the corn seeds learning through…