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Here at the University of Oregon students can live in a residential language immersion program at the Global Scholars Hall to reach high levels of proficiency in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish. As part of their program, students play Ecopod, a CASLS-designed place-based, augmented reality game in which students work together to survive a pandemic.

Ecopod was recently featured by Field Day Lab, the creators of ARIS, the software that facilitates creating and playing mobile games, tours, and interactive stories. Go here to learn more about the story and design of Ecopod.

Last Saturday, January 23, CASLS staff presented a three-hour workshop on using ARIS to build place-based games such as Ecopod for language teaching as of a series of professional development initiatives through the University of Oregon Language Council, CASLS, and the Yamada Language Center.

If you’re interested in learning more about place-based games and how they can be used for language learning, we encourage you to learn more about our PEBLL project and to our PEBLL database to find activities that fit your teaching needs.