#learn12 : links for my presentation for Learning for all conference

The following links are for my presentation for Learning for all.  I would suggest reading my paper as well (once it is published).

Statistics on video game use in Australia 

• Digital Australia 12 

Board games

• Settlers of Catan  
• Carcassonne  

Library games

• Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game 
• Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game earn points  
• GetGlue  
• Pierce County Library Teen summer challenge  
• Nicholson, Scott Everyone plays at thelibrary : creating great gaming experiences for all ages, Medford, N.J. : Information Today, Inc., c2010
• Find the future : the game 

Changing thinking about games

• LARPs can change the world 27 March 2012 
• Grimm, Nick, 5 reasons to play D&D Grimm wisdom, 5 August 2012 
• Beck Bob, Michael Porter, and David Lisa World of Warcraft and libraries, Computers in Libraries 2010 
• Edited transcript of online seminar June 2010, Games and libraries wiki  
• Mayer, Brian and Christopher Harris, Libraries got game : aligned learning through modern board games, Chicago : American Library Association, 2010. If you are an ALIA member you can access this as an ebook - full list here)  
• BoardGameGeek 
• TableTop with WilWheaton by Geek & Sundry 
• Game Library for the School Library System of Genesee Valley EducationalPartnership  

Science games

• Fold.it : solve puzzles for science  
• EtRNA  
• Science Museum games 
• Zombie climate apocalypse  
• Centre for Disease Control and Preparedness, Zombie preparedness  
• Otronicon 
• OCLS gaming collections, events and programs 

Museum games

• Smithsonian Art Adventure: O’ Brother, Where ART Thou?  
• GoSmithsonian  
• SCVNGR  
• Play SCVNGR at the Royal Ontario Museum  

Crowdsourcing

• Wikipedia
• Trove digitised newspapers  
• Trove text correctors hall of fame  
• California digital newspaper collection  
• Digitalkoot  

Crowdsourcing ideas to consider including in education programs

• Old Weather  
• Zooinverse  
• University of Iowa Libraries Civil War diaries and letters transcriptionproject   
• UI Lib transcripts  
• What’s the score at the Bodleian?  
• Hear whales communicate 
• The Milky Way project 
• British Library, Placing historic maps  
• Remember me : displaced children of the Holocaust  
• Kesler, Sarah Crowdsourcing helps Holocaust survivors find answers, Mashable 23 May 2011 / [accessed 20 August 2012]
• Museum of the future, Crowdsourcing 
• [US] National Archives : Citizen archivist dashboard  
• Distributed proofreaders  
• Project Gutenburg  
• Duolingo  
• Duolingo review, PCMag  
• Gooseberry Patch 
• HistoryPin  
• Wikipedia list of crowdsourcing projects
• CrowdFlower 
• Tomnod  
• Datablog, The Guardian 
• Flickr Commons  

 
and for some more ideas about libraries and games see my paper Playing with readers Information Online, January 2011