We also discuss basics of game design and storytelling. Goal is not to have bare riddles but to decide on a story which link the places and objectives together. Nice examples groups came up with till now are a suspense secret agent story and a voyage to Harry Potters Hogwarts (with a Bus Stop standing for Platform Nine and Three Quarters).

The kids love that they can use an iPhone to play the mission and are very motivated. The geotainment aspects makes it easier for the kids to be creative as we are working not only in virtual but also real space and they can basically „touch“ the riddles. One challenging aspect of the concept is that I only have a limited amount of iPhones and therefore don’t have a smart phone per kid. In a week I will try the project with 5 kids per iPhone which I think is the upper limit.

I would like to thank some people who helped to get the project to where it is now:

• Mobile learning expert Chris Nash with whom I had an inspiring discussion in London
• Marike Schlattmann from Lern-welten is working with me on the project.
• and last but not least the City of Munich and Netzwerk Inter@ktiv which are open for innovative media education projects.

Update:

You can find a summary of the projekt results here:
https://tausend-medien.de/2012/gpsmission