The Simulating History lab and Brock University are hosting the Playing With Technology In History conference on April 29th and 30th, 2010 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The conference will host guests from across the globe who are involved in digital studies and gaming. Activities will include a day of un-conference activities where participants will explore technology [...]
(cross-posted from Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research) This is a game you play while browsing the internet, going about your daily internet related tasks… think webquest with mines, treasure chests, and quests. You play the game by adding an extension to your Firefox browser. This browser lets you ‘sense’ the game world, [...]
For the past several months I have been exploring different ways to promote the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 in Niagara. To date, my research has been largely devoted to academic articles investigating hybrid and virtual reality along with historical research aimed at key people and places in Niagara during the War of [...]
The class projects from this year’s crop of students in the Interactive Arts & Science program at Brock University are now online… full details here. The theme is ‘Niagara 1812′, when the Niagara peninsula (location of Brock University, no coincidence) was the flashpoint for hostilities between the young American republic and Great Britain. Lundy’s Lane, [...]
From Emily Short, a premier writer of Interactive Fiction: Interactive fiction is increasingly being used in junior high and high school classrooms to encourage reading and teach problem-solving skills; it is also approached critically in college and graduate courses on digital and new media studies, and used as an example project in courses on computer [...]