Black Cloud was an environmental studies game that mixed the physical with the virtual to engage high school students in Los Angeles. Teams role-played as either real estate developers or environmentalists using actual air quality sensors hidden through the city to monitor neighborhood pollution. Their goal s to select good sites for either additional development or conservation. Combining scientific data with human experiences, students collaborate, share and analyze their findings, including working cross-culturally between cities.
Black Cloud in the news:
- Smog Musicians Turn Pollution into Jagged Melodies
- Aclima: Creating Collective Eco-Intelligence
- The Black Cloud: Using Games to Understand Air Quality
- Greg Niemeyer: Connecting Technology and Art
- Black Cloud video on KCET
- Alternate Reality Games and Education
- Black Cloud Citizen Scientist League
- Black Cloud: Citizen Air-quality Monitoring in South Central L.A.
Black Cloud on The American Crawl, (Antero Garcia's blog)
Research and Presentations on Black Cloud:
- USA EPA: Monitoring by citizens and its impact on the air quality community
- Can You Hear Me Now? Student Voices in the Battle for Cell Phone Use in a Less Than Receptive School
- Patterns Toward da Future
- Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology
Black Cloud on Flickr
