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AirBrush

sharnajackson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:10:33 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

play

Keywords:

game-based learning

Keywords:

children

Keywords:

Digital participation

Keywords:

co-production

Keywords:

technological innovation

Abstract:

AirBrush is a creative application with a difference – it literally allows you to ‘paint with air’. Using innovative, browser-based motion-tracking technology, your movement lets you paint onto a webcam canvas. Moving your hand produces the most refined marks, but there’s nothing to stop you from moving your head, feet or doing a dance. This opens up access to a number of people for whom operating a mouse or keyboard can be a challenge.

The application allows you to explore a range of different effects: choose your paint colour, shade, brush size and finally select a painting technique inspired by artists in the Tate collection, from Pissaro to Turner, Van Gogh to Pollock.

Our demonstration, delivered by Tate Kids and Plug-in Media, will expose the technology behind this innovative app and explain the difference between augmented reality and motion-tracking. It will also explore what happened when we tested it with kids, preview some of the work Tate Kids has received to date, cover issues around moderation and discuss how you can use webcam applications in order to bring your collections to life.

Further links

http://kids1.tate.org.uk/blog/?tag=airbrush

http://www.pluginmedia.net/project/airbrush/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MIieWln1WyQ

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations I

Site:

http://kids.tate.org.uk/games/airbrush/

Authors:

Sharna Jackson

Caboodle by Culture24: How to engage children with your collection online in a new way (and how they can engage you in theirs!)

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:40 +0000

Finnis, J., & Kennedy A. (2010). Caboodle by Culture24: How to engage children with your collection online in a new way (and how they can engage you in theirs!). (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Rules of Play: Design Elements of Addictive Online Learning Games

davidschaller — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:29:40 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

games

Keywords:

learning

Keywords:

play

Keywords:

design

Keywords:

workshop

Abstract:

Over the past decade, games have grown as both a commercial industry, as a field for scholarly research, and as a practical medium for teaching and learning. Inspired by a broad array of research emphasizing the effectiveness of problem-based, anchored instruction, developers have been creating games about subjects ranging from childhood obesity to electoral politics to personal finance. Even former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has embraced games as a way to teach civics to schoolchildren. Games have definitely come of age as tools for teaching and learning.

But we still need to understand how to make learning games fun. For that, we must learn about game design. Given the breadth and depth of this topic, this workshop focuses on a handful of game mechanics that help us move from the kinds of "game-like" interactives commonly found on museum Web sites into the realm of true games. With a firm understanding of these mechanics, we can design online games that incorporate our content and create compelling, even addicting learning experiences for our audiences.

Please note that this workshop will use paper prototyping methods to explore game elements and mechanics. Understanding these elements is essential to design an effective and engaging online games, but our focus will be on design principles, not on production aspects of online games.

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Why all games are learning games

Discuss the cognitive theory behind games. Compare commercial and learning games, discuss the value of game genres.

2. What makes games fun?

Discuss the pleasures that games provide (fantasy, anticipation, possibility, challenge, discovery, surprise, etc.).

3. Game mechanics

Discuss six game mechanics: space, rules, objects, actions, skills, and chance.

Examine how rules create emergent gameplay. Compare real skills and virtual skills. Explore the ways that randomness makes players feel powerful instead of helpless. Compare these game mechanics with those in typical game-like museum interactives.

4. Design Exercise

Breaking into groups of 3-4, explore game mechanics by modifying a simple paper-based learning game. Regrouping, discuss the impact of simple changes and how they affect gameplay.

5. Meaningful choices

Explore techniques to provide meaningful choices and consequences without creating cumbersome branching storylines.

6. Design Exercise

Breaking into small groups, redesign a familiar game to make the choices more meaningful.

7. Beyond the game

Discuss ways to leverage gameplay experience to consolidate learning beyond the game (online forums, onsite connections, etc.)

Open forum for additional questions and discussion.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Designing Games

Authors:

Dave Schaller