Workshops

Simulation Workshop: June 26 & 27, 2006
Stanford, California
Attend this workshop to learn how to create simulations!
http://simworkshop.stanford.edu/06_0626/program.html

Video

Handwashing video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3407381191666591669&q=outbreak
Review: Great to use a piece of this to setup one of our info clips. We can capture a subset using flickr. Alternatively we could also use the concept of a black light in the game to indicate how we can tell if hand-washing wasn't perfect.

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
Tuesday, May 9 at 8/7c
http://abc.go.com/movies/birdflu.html
An american business man is infected in Hong Kong, went to his son's little league game. Movie suggests that wild birds would bring the virus.
NPR: Spread of the virus is through casual contact like a napkin. Scientists say you have to be in close contact of 4 feet.

Audio

NPR Science Friday, may 12, reality vs. some avian flu movie:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5401179
"It's a numbers game...like pulling the ace of spades out of a deck of cards. US needs to export proactive methods - clamp down on borders and watch birds that come into the country illegal. US has already been fighting bird flu in the US and have managed to contain them." In Mali a woman died, first in sub-suharan africa from chicken. Border control is more important than migratory birds.

NPR
March 31, about a vaccine:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5315150

Presentations

History of simulations http://gamepipe.usc.edu/docs/StrategyGames.pdf

Books and Articles

Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients (Update1)
Confirmed cases of human-to-human transfer.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aWESsJvt6CFE&refer=asia


Fullerton, Tracy. et al. The Game Design Workshop
James Paul Gee, Learning about Learning from a Video Game: Rise of Nations

Video games improve performance of surgeons. New study
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/05/24/video.games.surgery.reut/index.html

The Battle to Stop Bird Flu by Thomas Goetz
Follow the money to find the pandemic
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/birdflu.html?pg=4&topic=birdflu&topic_set=

Feel Sick? Follow the Money.
Shows a likely pattern viruses will follow based on airplane routes.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/start.html?pg=12




IBM, Scripps team up to stop flu in its tracks
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/local_news/epaper/2006/05/27/m1a_ibmscripps_0527.html

ESA Demographics Report
http://www.theesa.com/files/2005EssentialFacts.pdf

Tools

NetLogo - a tool that is used to simulate everything from viruses to bird flocking. Students can tweak variables and observe the affects. It can also be setup where each student is an agent in the system.

Websites

• The 400 Rules of Game Design http://www.theinspiracy.com/400_project.htm
• Dafont http://www.dafont.com/
• Deviant Art http://www.deviantart.com/
• Ark Institute www.arkinstitute.com

• Mini-Game Inspiration
  • http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/
  • http://www.gprime.net/game/
  • http://www.shockwave.com/
  • http://games.yahoo.com/
  • http://games.msn.com/
• WHO
  
  • Home page http://www.who.int
  • Preparation Document http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/guidelines/pandemicfluprotocol_17.03a.pdf
• MSNBC
  • Scenario watch movie
    
  • Where do diseases come from? http://www.msnbc.com/modules/sars/new_diseases/default.asp
• Whitehouse
  • Preparedness plan http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/nspi_implementation.pdf
• U.S. Hospital Statistics http://www.aha.org/aha/resource_center/fastfacts/fast_facts_US_hospitals.html
  

Literature Review

Prenksy 2000
Pesce 2000
Berger 2002
Gee 2003
Williams 2003
Squire and jenkins 2004
Steinkueler 2004
Jean Piaget 1945
Huizinga - magic circle
Reeves and Nass 1996
Caillois