Check out Valve’s http://www.learnwithportals.com/ (Learn With Portals) project. The video of middle school students on the field trip at the Valve HQs is priceless too. What a charge!

Hi All… I really like the format of the Gameful site, it’s just so…gameful. It appears to be a customization of the BuddyPress plug-in for WordPress, but I could be wrong? In my K12 world, I can see how this type of web architecture could light a fire under some students. Anybody know who the [...]

Barry Joseph over at the Global Kids Foundation is developing a game that will help to teach students procedural logic through multilinear storytelling. He’s shared his game and is looking for feedback in a Google Doc. It’s accessible here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VXisSrbNbMYtYXlyTC0xdBAZ00mf_Clw05N2kOR_jg4/edit

It’s worth a look if you get a chance…

– http://www.robotheartstories.com/

Inanimate Alice – http://www.inanimatealice.com/index.html

Two nice examples of transmedia storytelling/participatory/gaming environments

Professor @henryjenkins of USC talks with the creators about their projects here on his blog: http://henryjenkins.org/2012/01/on_transmedia_and_education_a.html

Nice post by @CathyNDavidson, … In education, a recommendation for a fourth “r” in 21st Century Learning (algoRithm) http://t.co/4nGk0twV

FWIW , Also Cathy Davidson will be share w/ @CathyNDavidson live http://t.co/xoMhO5vh

Being a fan of the ocean and all, I was happy to find a nice little App (iOS) titled Cousteau Collection. They utilize the act of trading cards, similar to what you may have done when you were a kid and traded bubblegum sports player cards. The cards consist of photos from the Cousteau expeditions [...]

Another nice example of transmedia this time in relationship to music… Floating City last year was a game developed by Thomas Dolby and a crew of about 1/2 dozen folks. Nice gaming strategy utilized by gamers co-creating the content as they worked to discover the ultimate “boss” level. Still may be accessible here: http://www.floatingcity.com/ I [...]

FWIW, I tweeted about this a few days ago, but it’s another example of transmedia story telling out in front of the main event (movie release)

http://capitolcouture.pn/

I like how they are building the story as they go…

Seen this?