The Quest for the Perfect ExerGame

Mobile ExerGaming is the obvious next step for ExerGaming and it is something I have been actively exploring for some time now. However, now I am asking for your help to help put Mobile ExerGaming on the map.

Most of what I currently get paid to do is teach students. I am an enthusiastic embracer of educational technology. Last year I was involved in a small proof of concept project to utilize a mobile phone as a platform to deliver audio specific educational information in an accessible format.

The basic idea behind the project was to label objects with 2D barcodes (Quick Response codes) and when recognized by a camera phone, call up a media server to deliver a streaming audio file to the phone.

What has that got to do with ExerGaming? Well, think “Interactive Treasure Hunt” and you will begin to get the idea.

To cut a long story short, the project is a finalist in the 2008 Handheld Learning Awards. It is one of three in the Special Needs – Innovation category. Scroll down to the bottom of the Awards page and click on “In-Class Utility, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh“. (You can check out the other two finalists too).

The winner will be decided by SMS Txt voting. If you want to help boost the profile of Mobile ExerGaming then Vote for In-Class Utility by Txting

INCLASS   to   +447786203140

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Voting closes at midnight (GMT) on Thursday 9 October.

Thank you very much for your support….

If you want more information you can read the full paper here which was an Award Winning paper at ED-MEDIA 2008 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications in Vienna.

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