Blog Entries byReport from the Knight conference at MIT: 2nd and 3rd day
Fabio Berzaghi
9:03 AM | bio | Comments: 0
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Topics: Games & Virtual Worlds
Tagged: games knight conference mit boston
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Fabio Berzaghi
9:03 AM | bio | Comments: 0
report from the knight conference at MIT June 11-13 continued...
Topics: Games & Virtual Worlds
Tagged: games knight conference mit boston
report from the 1st day at the Knight Conference at MIT continued...
Topics: Best Practices
Tagged: games, knight conference, MIT
"Playing the News" Update - Distil Interactive I just returned from Ottawa where Nicole Rinerand I went to collaborate with Distil Interactive. We spent two days in their office and it was a positive learning experience. I should make a premise that Distil is trying to build a system that will allow non tech-savvy users, with little knowledge of coding, to create a game or game-like environment in a simple way and in a short time. The system is based off XML, flash and C. Right now the XML code is what controls what is being displayed on screen and... continued...
Topics: Education, Games & Virtual Worlds, Technology
Tagged: games, news, umn, uofm
Finally I am able to post independetly, and after the semester is over I will have a chance to work more on the news project. As a matter of fact I already started working on it. I have an internship for the summer at the Johnson Simulation Center and I worked 3 days of this weeks on the news game. I mainly tried to understand the code, and try to implement some features in one of the mini-games, a breakout clone. The mini-game is still in an early stage, as well as the whole system actually. Other projects have been... continued...
Topics: Education, Games & Virtual Worlds
Tagged: canada, distill, news game
Fabio Berzaghi
10:52 PM | bio | Comments: 4
Here is another update from our research assistant on the "Playing the News" project. The team has been exploring "mini-games" that would provide a challenge as players move through the information from the news stories. Fabio has discovered some open source flash sites that might help. "As I mentioned in my earlier post, this week I started looking into open source flash games that could be adapted for our purpose. After some research on the web, I found this website http://www.flashadvisor.com/movie/index.php?viewCat=24 . It's called Flash Advisor and it's a collection of resources for Flash programmers and what not. I went... continued...
Topics: Games & Virtual Worlds, Technology
Tagged: flash, open source, playing the news, videogames
Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age.
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Citizen media project to track carbon tax in Boulder, CO
Connecting radio stations to the Net in rural India
Creating EveryBlock citizen database for info on neighborhoods
Developing games to inform people about civic issues in NYC
Citizen media project to track carbon tax in Boulder, CO
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Blogging about a module to help people connect related items
Creating 'Freedom Fone,' news via voicemail in Zimbabwe
Empowering deaf people to become citizen journalists
Planning an "ideal newsroom" and resources for the digital news era
Starting Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU
Starting Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU
Helping people create custom, printable publications
Blogging about centralized, user-maintained news system
Creating EveryBlock citizen database for info on neighborhoods
Creating set of online legal resources for citizen journalists
Getting the public to fund local investigative journalism
Rising Voices project to help developing world bloggers
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Blogging about creating diversity in digital media
Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Creating news simulation game to help understand complex issues
Blogging about making Paulding.com a financial success
Making webcasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community
Developing games to inform people about civic issues in NYC
Recruiting 75 citizen journalists for local Chicago site
Connecting diverse neighborhoods with mobile news in S. Africa
Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
MTV citizen reports on presidential election
Blogging about a media toolset to expand public participation
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Blogging about how reporters can work with social networks
Training people in rural India to be video producers
Creating news simulation game to help teach complex issues
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Using GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media
Promoting "universal geo-tagging" on blogs for local info
MTV citizen reports on presidential election
Editor of Idea Lab and PBS MediaShift sites
Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Creating news simulation game to help understand complex issues
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Re-creating Oakland's bygone jazz scene as virtual world
Using GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media
Blending computer science and journalism in one academic program
Building an open-source version of VillageSoup
Creating site for reporters to share ideas, resources
Encouraging green living through interactive game, Beanstockd
Sharing big ideas from the world of citizen engagement online
Making webcasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community
Helping public access TV stations share content online
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