Recently we were really pleased to learn that the Open Wide and Step Inside (OWSI) project that TELMeD worked on with PDSE had received a second round of funding. This is obviously great news, and reaffirms the value and impact that the…
Internet connectivity
Project Aquila
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Project Aquila involves building solar-powered aircraft which will fly for months at a time above remote places, beaming down an internet connection. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36855168
Game Based Learning, iCARE, Interactive Comic Book, Mobile
iCARE – building for a branching story with dynamic use of audio and graphics
by Rob Hart • • 0 Comments
It was decided early on in the project planning stages that we would implement a branching story in the app. This benefits many things: Increases replay-ability – a user can intentionally choose a different path during next play to see…
Game Based Learning, iCARE, Interactive Comic Book, Mobile
iCARE – testing and debugging locally and from Africa
by Rob Hart • • 0 Comments
During early development stages, all app tests were done at TELMeD HQ, between the dev team and locally depending on who’s input and feedback was required. A lot of the feedback we received was verbal via regular Skype meetings, emails,…
Game Based Learning, iCARE, Interactive Comic Book, Mobile
iCARE – interaction and scaffolding examples and how they work
by Rob Hart • • 0 Comments
The iCARE app has multiple interactions to make the story more engaging and interesting. Each also offers variations in what they can do and are all automatically generated from the xml file for the app. Making it very easy to…
Game Based Learning, iCARE, Interactive Comic Book, Mobile
iCARE – making an app thats easy to edit, and the workflow involved
by Rob Hart • • 0 Comments
One of the criteria for this project was to eventually make it open source. Whilst I’m not sure if this will actually happen, it did make me think more about my code and how best to approach the way in which…
iCARE
iCARE – meet the characters
by elizabeth seymour • • 0 Comments
The main character in the story in our iCARE project is our narrator, Mariatu Kamara. She lives in a rural village in Sierra Leone with her husband Ali, son Mohamed and daughter Yaema. The Kamara’s live in a 3 roomed…
iCARE
Illustrating Tonkolilli
by elizabeth seymour • • 0 Comments
As the illustrator for the iCARE project, I have had the task of recreating a rural village from Tonkolilli in Sierra Leone in a recognisable, and yet comic-book fashion – quite a challenge! Our contacts in Masanga Hopsital were able…
Game Based Learning, iCARE, Interactive Comic Book
iCARE – challenges with loading many assets into an app
by Rob Hart • • 0 Comments
As my role as lead developer for the iCARE project, I wanted to make sure this app works as well as possible on the mobile devices being sent out to Tonkolilli in the summer (iPad Air 2 – 16GB, WiFi…