Gymkhana. Juegos educativos para Android.

An Experience of M-Learning: Gymkhanas with Android Smartphones III Congreso Escuela 2.0

{jfernandez, grex}@gsyc.urjc.es GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

III Congreso Escuela 2.0, Granada, October 6th, 7th, 8th, 2011

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

c 2011 Jorge Fern´ andez Gonz´ alez, Gregorio Robles Mart´ınez.

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An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Gymkhanas?

Figure: Gymkhanas are group activities. A challenge has to be solved to obtain the next one.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Scenario

Technology cannot only make organizing gymkhanas easier, it offers new possibilities!

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

LibreGeoSocial and ARViewer

http://www.libregeosocial.org

Figure: LibreGeoSocial: Social network and augmented reality library for Android phones.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

General Architecture

Figure: General architecture of the system, including the technologies that have been used for its implementation.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Administration

Administrating a gymkhana

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Gymkhana Linear Story

Figure: Example of a scenario of gymkhana with several groups and a linear path for challenges.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Gymkhana Round-trip

Figure: Example of a scenario of gymkhana with several groups and a circular path for challenges.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Geolocalizing groups in real-time

Figure: Mash-up with Google Maps offering geopositioning and information of participating groups.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Classifications in real-time

Figure: Table with the classification of the participating groups in the gymkhana.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Responses

Figure: Example of a received response.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Creating a Gymkhana

Figure: Web page for the creation of events (in this case showing a Javascript alert due to the introduction of a wrong format).

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Introducing a new challenge

Figure: HTML form for the creation of gymkhana challenges.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Instant messages

Figure: Instant messages can be sent to participants.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Challenges

Types of challenges

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Text challenges

Figure: Screenshot of a textual response challenge.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Geopositioning challenge

Figure: Screenshot of the presentation of a geopositioning challenge and map with the current position of the participant and the destination.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Photo challenge

Figure: Screenshots of a photographic challenge, before and after the user has selected a picture to be sent as response.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Augmented Reality challenge

Figure: Tagging of a new virtual resource by means of the LibreGeoSocial augmented reality interface.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Experiments

The gymkhana application has been tested three times before being released.

Experiment 1: Feb 11 2010 - 8 volunteers.

Experiment 2: Mar 25 2010 - 22 volunteers.

Experiment 3: Apr 16 2010 - 18 volunteers (San Teleco).

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Some Results

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

“Official” Gymkhanas “La Noche de los Investigadores” - 24 Sep 2010 - 30 users.

“X Semana de la Ciencia” - 11 Nov 2010 - 20 users.

“Release Party in GSyC/LibreSoft” - 11 Feb 2011 - 15 users.

“1a Semana de Obras Libres” - 19 May 2011 - 30 users.

“FesTICval 2011” - 29 June 2011.

Organized under the umbrella of the eMadrid project!

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Costs

This is a low-cost activity (given that you have the smartphones).

You need one smartphone per group.

Although it seems this is becoming a commodity.

Network access: we bought 20 euro pre-paid cards per phone.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Next Future

Create community around the application.

Try it out in other environments.

Have easy-to-organize (almost ad-hoc) gymkhanas.

Move from informal to formal learning (among others, this means working on assessment of the learning).

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Results

New types of challenges made possible by technology.

Reduction of human resources.

More control on the participating groups.

Permanent, immediate and distance communication.

Dynamic real-time modification of a gymkhana.

Less time to organize a gymkhana.

Reduction in cost.

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

Please, use it!

It is free software.

Available on the Android Market: Search for gymkhana or libresoft Cost: 0 euro / dollar / pound

http://gymkhana.libresoft.es

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho

An Experience of M-Learning: Gymkhanas with Android Smartphones III Congreso Escuela 2.0

{jfernandez, grex}@gsyc.urjc.es GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

III Congreso Escuela 2.0, Granada, October 6th, 7th, 8th, 2011

An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho