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Living Map

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of all participating schools.

Motivating Active Participation of Primary Schoolchildren in Digital Online Technologies for Creative Opportunities through Multimedia.

About eMapps

eMapps.com is a STREP funded under the European Commission’s FP6 IST Call 4 Priority 2.4.13: Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe.

The project focuses on communities of creative, networking children within the 9-12 age range in the new EU Member States and has produced some significant breakthroughs related to innovative ways of learning, using computer games and mobile learning in schools. Its focus is upon the eLearning application area.

Schools Portfolio

In this section each school provides extensive information about their game implementation including; the story, the challenges, the plot, and the game play.

Contributors to the eMapps.com learning object repository can choose either to make their objects publicly available without any licence restrictions or to apply a Creative Commons Licence .

News

Cordis ICT publishes eMapps results

eMapps project results have been published in an article Making the classroom a playground for learning on Cordis (Community Research & Development Information Service) ICT results website.

Conference: Serious Games on the Move

23-24 June 2008, (Cambridge, UK)

The conference seeks to bring together leading researchers and developers who are movers and shakers at the cutting edge of their field with interested professionals in scientific and technical communities worldwide. ... Read More

Twinning Game in eMapps

Children from Poland visited Prague in December 2007 in order to play the game developed by the Czech Cenrveny Vrch elementary school. The scope of the common action was to exploit the cooperation among eMapps schools and reuse the games content. Polish children could gain knowledge about Prague and Brevnov monastery again by playing and using GPS devices, cameras, and mobile phones.