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This is for anyone interested in Alternate Reality Gaming, education or a combination of the two. If you have ideas or comments to share that might help further thinking in this area or indeed if you find this site useful to your own work please do share your thoughts here. Or, if you’d like to contact me directly, please email angelacolvert@argle.net.

This site is very much a work in progress and contains my emergent thinking as I mull over the findings of my research and endeavour to make links with current theory and practice.

Conference: ARGs in Charity and Education

I was really excited about this conference as it was solely about ARGs in Charity and Education. This was an opportunity to find out about other projects which aimed to harness the potential of Alternate Reality Gaming for educational purposes. I’d never been to the Channel 4 building, where it was being held, so that felt like a bit of an adventure too.

Channel 4 Building

I was interested to discover the ways in which ARGs were being created for university students. Nicola Whitton from Manchester Metropolitan University talked about the potential benefits of using ARGs in Higher Education and discussed the ARGOSI (Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction) project which recieved funding from JISC.

Katie Piatt, developed an ARG at Brighton University designed to engage students in the induction process. Another presenter, Alex Moseley from the University of Leicester, reported on an ARG that he used to teach research skills. It was interesting to hear about the way the students contributions were assessed during the process.