game based learning
- amidoinitrite, Concept, D&D, education, elearning, game based learning, learning and teaching, learning design, resource development, StoCo, Vomit
I’ve joined the Spring 2022 Write Your First D&D Encounter Workshop!
I’m super-excited about making a start on the Spring 2022 Write Your First D&D Encounter Workshop, which is a fully-online 4 week course that launches on 1 May and finishes on 31 May. We are so excited to see all of the buzz about our upcoming Write Your First Encounter workshop! If you want to get started in writing for #DnD 5th Edition, this is a GREAT place to begin. Join us starting May 1st! Register here: https://t.co/SIPsYuX9pT pic.twitter.com/2MWSNPHg5Y — Storytelling Collective ✏️ #StoCoComics (@StorytellingCol) April 26, 2022 What I’ll do By the end of the workshop, I’ll have written and produced a one-page D&D 5th Edition encounter – a…
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Decide my fate (outsourcing responsibility)
What should I do? I don’t know. Go ask someone else. A web-service for people who can’t make up their own mind, with options.
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‘fetti
Celebrate everyday awesomeness with ‘fetti. Personal or public celebrations and congratulations. Analogue or digital.
- amidoinitrite, Concept, game based learning, homework, learning and teaching, learning design, resource development
WWW – Simple access to web pages
I’m building an interactive experience which makes use of available weather data, much like the data services made available by the BOM or the OpenWeatherMap. This means I need to be able to load data from the web, parse it and then transform 3D geometry based on real world locations and the loaded weather data. That’s a whole load of stuff to figure out and then pull together, so I’m making a start by learning how to load data by retrieving the contents of URLs and weather specific data, just to get the whole thing going. using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine; //using System.Xml; //using System; public class SimpleWebAccess :…
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Modelling a simple door/entry area to Dr Softain’s lab with Blender for an augment with Aurasma Studio
A work-in-progress render of the scene and 50 frame animated geometry for an augment of door/entry area to Dr Softain’s laboratory. Thematically, this scene takes place around the same time as Dr Softain’s emergency broadcast. The modelling is based on measurements and reference photos taken at the scene. The animated door opening was achieved by creating a simple bone system, skinning the mesh and then animated the bones. I did this because I thought animated rigid geometry wasn’t supported by Aurasma Studio. I was wrong. Animated rigid geometry is supported by Aurasma Studio. I may continue to use bones to animate the opening of the door and other geometry that makes up…
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Dr Softain’s emergency broadcast
Dr Sigmeund Softain is specialist surgeon. He was responsible for pioneering The Softain Biopsy medical procedure. Dr Softain’s research is experimental and ongoing. He Tweets his day-to-day research activities and also discusses his work and recent findings on his blog. One day everything changed. Something went wrong in Dr Softain’s laboratory. An experimental medical procedure went awry. An outbreak. Amidst all the chaos and confusion Dr Softain recorded his final broadcast. An emergency broadcast warning us of an unknown peril. Dr Softain’s emergency broadcast Outside Dr Softain’s laboratory All that was remained was a pool of blood and Dr Softain’s laboratory pass. User engagement I recorded and edited Dr Softain’s emergency video on my iPad. I then used…
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Days later or maybe even weeks later
Days later or maybe even weeks later is a concept for a collaborative workplace/institute/teaching centre-wide activity for staff and students designed to mend the physical and psychological effects of the Victorian government’s $300 million in cuts from the state’s TAFE sector. Physical and psychological effects could include closure of campuses, a reduction of courses being offered and job cuts. This blog post contains exerpts from a conversation about the concept I had with myself on our organisation’s Yammer network. This blog post attempts to consolidate the concept. I saw the activity taking place after the catastrophic event. It could’ve been 28 days later or even 28 weeks later. It doesn’t really matter. Just as…
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GBL MOOC – Week 1: Game Based Learning/Game principles: Serious Games (Darfur is dying)
This post documents my thoughts on Darfur is Dying as part of the Week 1 activities research into Serious Games for the Games Based Learning (GBL) MOOC. The game Darfur is Dying – http://www.darfurisdying.com What is it? Darfur is Dying is mtvU’s Darfur refugee game for change that “provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. Players must keep their refugee camp functioning in the face of possible attack by Janjaweed militias. Players can also learn more about the genocide in Darfur that has taken the lives of 400,000 people, and find ways to get involved to help stop this human rights…
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GBL MOOC – Week 1: Game Based Learning/Game principles: Serious Games (Viking Quest)
This post documents my thoughts on Viking Quest as part of the Week 1 activities and research into Serious Games for the Games Based Learning (GBL) MOOC. The game Viking Quest – http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/viking_quest/ What is it? Viking Quest is an adventure game produced by BBC history. The player is placed in the role of a viking who has been issued a challenge by their chief. The challenge is to travel to a distant land, loot a monastery and then return to Norway with the treasure. Audience General/Primary and Secondary school Why so Serious (Game)? To successfully meet the challenge set by the Viking chief, the player needs to: determine if…
