Museum Digital Transformation: Talk And Workshop Materials

Museums are research institutions that often have a multi dimensional mission: research, preserve, teach, communicate. Digital tools can sometimes help in maintaining this mission: how and when has been the topic of the conference and set of workshops Museum Digital Transformation held in Florence on the 12th and 13th of April 2018.

I both had a talk (together with Alice Filipponi) and taught a workshop. Here you find links to all the slides and supporting materials I used.

Talk: Museums And Learning

Slides of the talk Museums and Learning – an open dialogue through digital transformation:

Here are two videos presented during the talk:

Workshop: Designing An Applied Game For Your Museum

Workshop exercise booklet

Slides of the workshop:

And here is a public link to a folder with supporting materials.

Thanks!

I hope this material can be helpful. I wish to thank Alice Filipponi, Francesco Pallanti, Pino Panzarella and Matteo Bicocchi without whom these projects and events would not have been possible.

As a way to keep in contact I publish every month or two a newsletter with new research on applied games. You can subscribe here. :-)

 

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Talk “Applied and Persuasive: Playful Learning In Museums” (video with slides)

Here is the talk I gave at the Museum Digital Transformation conference in March, 2017:

 

 

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Varieties of Game Applications

Can you use the pervasive media “videogame”  and this field’s design techniques for communicating effectively with people? Can games be used for what you have in mind? How can a field specialist work effectively with a game development team to communicate know how more effectively? [Read more…]

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How To Teach Fractions Making It Fun?

In my frequent survey of games and research concerning learning through games, I’ve stumbled upon this cute post: Teacher Uses LEGOs To Explain Math To Schoolchildren, which actually is extracted from Using LEGO to Build Math Concepts. [Read more…]

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Gamification that makes sense: 2013 updates

Recently I’ve seen several examples of smart gamified apps. I have argued elsewhere that there are two kinds of gamification, black and white hat, similarly to models of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. But showing examples of effective gamification could be very effective in making the point. So here we go. [Read more…]

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From HTML5’s limits to a different gamification

I’ve recently given a talk on “Html5 game and gamification from the trenches” at Codemotion. Here are the slides on Slideshare:

The core of my argument goes this way: HTML5 as a mobile platform effectively supports a very limited range of technical choices for animations and sounds. This can be frustrating, but it is not impossible to build games that are fun and gamified solutions that are effective using limited means.

HTML5 developers approaching game and gamification should become aware of the need of putting a considerable effort in storyboarding and mechanics design, in forms quite different from those required by web applications. I propose two different definitions of gamification, that IMHO should be kept as separate when discussing this topic.

This is my definition of Black Hat Gamification:

Black Hat Gamification
Definition. Adding points, badges, leaderboards & incentives to an existing application in order to increase addictiveness.

This is my definition proposal for White Hat Gamification:

White Hat Gamification
Proposal. Gamifying means creating an application that defines a meaningful narrative through game design elements and… it is not a game (though it should be fun).

To get more in depth about gamifications, see A Quick Buck by Copy and Paste and other writings by Sebastian Deterding to learn more about this. You can find me on twitter here.

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