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. http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com/pages/3week4activities

1. Games Based
Learning MOOC
http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com

2. Apps, AR and ARGs

3. APP
Application software of a mobile
device. This could be a smartphone
or a tablet.

4. AR
• Augmented Reality
creates a layer of virtual
reality over the real
world environment
using a computer
generated sensory input
through a GPS enabled
application that can be
sound, video or
graphics.

5. ARG
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an
interactive narrative that uses the
real world as a platform and uses
transmedia storytelling to deliver a
story that may be altered by
participants' ideas or actions.

6. Social Network
Knowledge
Construction
SNKC

7. SNKC
• Level 1 – Identify the Network
• Level 2 – Lurk
• Level 3 – Contribute
• Level 4 – Create
• Level 5 – Lead

8. Week 1
Fun, Flow & Fiero

9. Keller’s ARCs Model
of Motivational Design
• Attention
• Relevance
• Confidence
• Success

10. Week 2
Apps &
Possibilites

11. 7 Ways Games Reward the Brain
1) Use an experience system
2) Multiple long and short term aims
3) Reward for effort
4) Rapid frequent clear feedback
5) Element of uncertainty
6) Window of enhanced attention
7) Other people

12. Week 3
IF and AR
Interactive Fiction and
Augmented Reality

13. Intro to Week 4

14. Gamer Disposition
John Seely Brown and
Douglas Thomas
Harvard Business Review

15. Gamer Disposition
• They are bottom-line oriented.
• They understand the power of diversity.
• They thrive on change.
• They see learning as fun.
• They marinate on the "edge."

16. Week 4
ARG
Alternate Reality Game

17. Bootstrapping.....
ARG and ARGlike
Examples
Recording

18. Week 4
Mysteries, Puzzles and
Scavenger Hunts

19. Scavenger Hunts
• PBS Historical Detectives
• Jane McGonigal's “Find the Future”
• SCVNGR Location based game - what types of
clues and puzzles could you set up using this?

20. Mysteries
• "Who? What? Where? When? Why? The 5 Ws
of the Mystery World – Tuesday 7 pm MT
• What sort of mystery could you give your
students to solve?

21. TEDTalk
Scott Kim
Puzzle Maker

22. Discussions
• Gamer Disposition
• Components of a Scavenger Hunt
• Write a Mystery
• ARGNet

23. Asynchronous
Synchronous

24. Monday – Noon MT
Weekly Overviews
YouTube Channel

25. Wednesday – 7 pm MST
• TWEETCHAT #gamemooc
• Gamer Disposition

26. Tuesday – 7 pm MST
Vasili Giannoustous
DIY Mystery

27. Live Events Online
• Google Hangout on Air Overview
Monday Noon MT
• DIT Mystery 7 pm MT Google Hangout and
through Second Life.
• Tweetchat #gamemooc Wednesday 7 pm MT

28. Social Media
• Twitter - #gamemooc
• Flickr – Games Based Learning MOOC
• diigo – Apps AR and ARGs

29. What to Do?
• Week 4
• Weekly Activities
• Events
• Discussion

30. Games Based
Learning MOOC
#gamemooc