2. Concept
• Encourage children to visit cultural and
educational venues in Kent (and beyond)
• Provide learning tools based on events or
information at the venues
• Encourage engagement with activities by
gamifying the user experience
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3. kent.learninggame.org.uk
• Geolocate or search by postcode
• plot points of interest on an OS map
• highlight venues who opt in to the ‘game’
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6. Venues can sign up
• include lat/long of venue (match to POI)
• include details of venue/game:
• images, text, contact dtls
• arrange recurring payment?
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7. venues get a subdomain
• e.g. richborough.kent.learninggame.org.uk
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8. At the venues
• mobile optimized website
• over 3G or wifi
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9. users can sign up
• provide user name and group name
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10. Users explore venue
•Scan QR codes at ‘hotspots’
• can just use 3rd party app
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11. • QR codes map towithof page in venue’s
learninggame site
url
related content
• e.g. /hotspots/3
• & server will register that the user has
visited the hotspot
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12. View scores for a group
• /scores?group=mygroup
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13. “CMS” for venues
• admin console at /admin
• simple RESTful CRUD interface
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14. list hotspots
• /admin/hotspots
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15. edit a hotspot
• /admin/hotspots/3
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16. Benefits for users
• Enhance learning for children
• Fun gaming experience
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17. Benefits for venues
• Marketing opportunity for sites to increase
visitor numbers
• Cheaper, less labour intensive alternative to
audio tours
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18. Business Model
• Each venue to pay ~£100 month (TBC)
• as few as10 venues would earn £12k/yr
• would pay for dev & is sustainable
• Beta venues would pay for nominal fee
• Discounts for certain not-for-profits/
charities/communities?
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19. Phase 2 ideas
• More self-service features for venues
• Native, richer apps
• with embedded QR code reader etc
• photo upload function
• User generated content at hotspots
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Notas do Editor
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