[arg_discuss] Educational ARGs

[Christy Dena]

Hello Steffen,

No, I wasn't aware of your work. Great!

I put a call out on this list and at ARGN and a few places on the web  
a few months ago, for researchers looking at ARGs to contact me about  
the whitepaper section. There are researchers who are looking at ARGs  
in education, so that is how there is some information about  
education in there. However, there is not a separate section  
outlining all the people who are teaching ARGs. The whitepaper was  
current as to a few months ago -- and what I could dig up. That is  
why I think a section on the ARG SIG website would be helpful -- to  
provide up to date info about the emerging interest in the education  
aspects.

The stuff you're doing looks great Steffen. But I do see Pervasive  
games and augmented reality and alternate reality as different  
genres. ARGs could be seen as a subset or parallel type of Pervasive  
Games.

What do you see as the relationship between pervasive games,  
augmented reality and alternate reality games?

Cheers,
Christy






On 31/10/2006, at 12:01 AM, Steffen P. Walz wrote:

> addendum:
>
> of course, and with regard to pervasive / augmented reality /  
> handheld+X game design for learning, also consider eric klopfer's  
> work at the MIT. as far as i know, eric currently writes a book for  
> the MIT press about the topic.
>
> br,
> spw
>
> Am 30.10.2006 um 09:49 schrieb Steffen P. Walz:
>
>> hi richard & christy,
>>
>> i am not sure if we are listed in the whitepaper christy mentions:
>>
>> at the ETH zurich in switzerland, we take advantage of pervasive  
>> games / game design (which are, in comparito teach students, and  
>> expect pervasive games as results from students, too, cf.
>>
>> http://wiki.arch.ethz.ch/twiki/bin/view/Game0405
>> http://wiki.arch.ethz.ch/twiki/bin/view/Game05
>>
>> both design studios were german only, but there are a number of  
>> articles about these classes in english; they are listed in the  
>> blibliography on my academic website:
>>
>> http://wiki.arch.ethz.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/ 
>> SteffenPWalz#PubLications
>>
>> br,
>> spw
>>
>> Am 30.10.2006 um 02:47 schrieb Christy Dena:
>>
>>> Hello Richard,
>>>
>>> In the forthcoming ARG whitepaper there is a section on ARGs and  
>>> Academia. In it I cover (amongst other things) educators who are  
>>> studying ARGs; ARGs that have been created in education for  
>>> students and for educators; ARGs that are created as part of  
>>> someone's education (research). I also just posted on this list  
>>> about some ARGs that were recently created by 3rd year Multimedia  
>>> and Digital Design students at Monash University, Caulfield,  
>>> Australia under the direction of Troy Innocent. Contact me  
>>> directly if you'd like more info. :)
>>>
>>> But none of these include ARGs that have been created for  
>>> businesses as pedagogical devices, of which there are many.
>>>
>>> I think this sort of interest in ARGs for education (in  
>>> secondary, tertiary and business settings) is just going to  
>>> increase and the IGDA ARG SIG can be a valuable source of  
>>> information. A section, therefore, on the IGDA ARG SIG webpage  
>>> with this information would be really helpful...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Christy
>>>
>>> School of Arts, Letters and Media
>>> University of Sydney, Australia
>>> www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com
>>> www.ChristyDena.com
>>> www.WriterResponseTheory.org
>>> www.SlateNight.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30/10/2006, at 8:07 AM, Richard Sebastian wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello:
>>>>
>>>> I am interested in the educational potential of ARGs, and would  
>>>> like
>>>> to know if anyone out there is currently using an ARG or ARG-like
>>>> model for educational purposes. If so, I would be interested in
>>>> talking to you further about your work.
>>>>
>>>> Please contact me at sebastian (at) virginia.edu
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Richard Sebastian
>>>> Doctoral candidate, Instructional Technology
>>>> Curry School of Education
>>>> University of Virginia
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>> ETH Zurich
>> Game Design Research                                        
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>> Phone +41 44 658 1636                                      Chair  
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>> walz at arch.ethz.ch                                                 
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> ETH Zurich
> Game Design Research                                        
> Department of Architecture
> Phone +41 44 658 1636                                      Chair  
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> walz at arch.ethz.ch                                                 
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