Week 4 Activities. Week 4 Overview and Activities This week, we are looking at ARGs and also features that can be part of an ARG or stand-alone game project. So we'll be discussing mysteries, puzzles and scavenger hunts. Week 4 Overview Video Week 4 Slideshare Unfiction by Center4EduPunx, on Flickr But to start, let's take a look at the Gamer Disposition. John Seely Brown and Thomas Douglas' HBR article - The Gamer Disposition. They are bottom-line oriented. PBS Extended Interview with John Seely Brown - New Learners of the 21st Century. Those could be factors to keep in mind when designing an ARG. For ARGs, let's start with a look at this: Intro to ARG (Yes it's Wikipedia but a good example of Wikipedia.) Jane McGonigal's slideshare on "How To Invent An Alternate Reality.
" Here's the recording of the presentation we made on Bootstrapping..... Educause ELI Report 7 Things You Should Know About Alternate Reality Games ARGNet It's hard to say where to start with this site. "Who? Write Your Own Murder Mystery. Gamer_disposition. Games, Engagement and The Game Taint in Online Education. Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Higher Education in the 21st Century. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. by Robert Bloomfield, Cornell University (Currently visiting at Columbia University) I’ve been taking games seriously since I began studying experimental economics as a grad student. Since then, I’ve spent the last two and a half decades running economic games in my lab at Cornell’s Johnson School, studying the influence of strategic and behavioral factors in financial markets and related settings.
Now I’m turning my sights to online education. Can games provide an answer, at least in business and economics programs? Educational games have a long history (especially in economics), but they haven’t been widely adopted in degree programs. A World of Bizcraft approach obviously faces many technological and design hurdles. So, here are my questions for the LooG community: AR General. Tools for Creating Interactive Fiction. What Are NPC's Thinking 2 by Wowcrendor (WoW Machinima) View 1.