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Community PlanIt in Boston Public Schools
How do you convince people to take time out of their busy schedules, leave their home around dinner time, perhaps get a babysitter, all in order to participate in a slow-moving conversation about something very abstract? It’s not easy. While … Continue reading
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Preparing for Launch
The summer is nearing an end and we are actively trying to get Community PlanIt ready for launch. While the goal is to get the game ready for a national launch, on September 9th, we will start a three-week game … Continue reading
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Design-based Approach to Communities and Technologies
The way people use ICTs in their daily lives is infinitely varied. These variations are associated with socio-economic background, geographical location, cultural capital and a number of other factors. While the scholarly debate has been rich in regards to understanding … Continue reading
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Attention to Location
I find myself paying to attention to how people pay attention. I’m starting to frame my design considerations around this problematic. For instance, in our Community PlanIt game, one way of stating our goal is to make urban planning fun. … Continue reading
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Community PlanIt
While it has been announced in a number of forums, I have not yet written about the Engagement Game Lab on this blog. In August 2010, the Engagement Game Lab was born as a virtual research organization at Emerson College. … Continue reading
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Local Engagement Games
There is extensive literature documenting the benefits of games for learning. Educators are beginning to embrace the use of games for teaching history, science, or math it is becoming clear that they provide a mechanism through which content can be … Continue reading
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Participatory Chinatown Launches
Participatory Chinatown launched on May 3 in Boston’s Chinatown. It’s a 3-D interactive game designed to augment the traditional community meeting. Instead of the traditional model of people responding to a powerpoint presentation about the neighborhood, participants in this meeting … Continue reading
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Civic Multitasking
Local civic engagement is an outcome of local attention. When people engage in their neighborhoods they are paying attention to their neighborhoods amidst the myriad other things to which they could be paying attention. They are stopping to engage in … Continue reading
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Net-Local Tweeting
So there is a lot of buzz about Twitter’s new location API released today. Not quite yet a feature of Twitter.com, the now available API will allow developers to collect location metadata from each tweet, expanding the utility of individual … Continue reading
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3-D Worlds for Land Use Planning
Holly St. Clair writes about the Participatory Chinatown project in an article for the American Planning Association newsletter. In explaining what PC will do for the planning process, she says: The emphasis is not just on the computer simulation, but … Continue reading
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