just add content - presentation for virtual worlds best practices in education july, 2013
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This is the slide deck from my recent presentation for VWBPETRANSCRIPT
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Just add content
Adventures on the path to Immersive Game Facilitation
Hindsight is 20/20
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Who is that guy?
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What’s a virtual world?
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Online Community
Simulated EnvironmentFacilitates Interactions• With other people• With the simulated environment
Bishop, J. (2009). Enhancing the understanding of genres of web-based communities: The role of the ecological cognition framework. International Journal of Web-Based Communities, 5(1), 4-17.
From Online 3D Games to 3D Worlds Online
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My Unusual Vantage Point
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Technophobia & Education
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Applied Research Combined My Efforts with Student Analysis
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Four simple parts to a game
Scores
Tokens
Traps
Puzzles
ScoresThe Scorekeeper keeps count of scores while the game is played. You also must wear one while the game is tested.
A Final Score ReporterSends the final scores for the player(s) to you
Scores
Tokens
Traps
Puzzles
TokensImagine a flower gathering game. You want people to pick the flowers. Perhaps you also want them to collect mushrooms, or even little gnomes.
Tokens can be collected, and players earn experience points XP for gathering them.
Scores
Tokens
Traps
Puzzles
TrapsTraps help make a game challenging. You could for example add beetles, weeds or quicksand to your gardening game.
Players lose experience points for falling into traps.Scor
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Tokens
Traps
Puzzles
PuzzlesPuzzles are obstacles that require creative problem solving to earn rewards (XP and Prizes.)
A puzzle could ask your players questions about keeping a healthy garden, and reward good answers with a shiny watering can.
Scores
Tokens
Traps
Puzzles
Game Kit is Coming to All Grids
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What does the life cycle of an emerging technology look like?
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The Gartner Hype Cycle
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Life: 2007 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
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Virtual Worlds
Death: Gartner’s Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies 2012
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Virtual Worlds
As far as popular culture is concerned, disillusionment = death
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The path is becoming more clear
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