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realcleverscience: smarterplanet: Project Noah Gamifies all that Nature has to Offer | Gamification Blog Ever wondered what plant rooted itself in your garden, or what strange bug somehow survived the bitter cold outside to call your house its home? Or maybe on vacation to warmer reaches, you came across a disturbingly large insect? Some might run the other way, but if you are like me, you’re asking “what the hell is that?” Project Noah brings together a community that can help. It’s been out for over a year, and Project Noah has already engaged thousands of users in the age-old game that has attracted the likes of Darwin and Teddy Roosevelt: discovering and identifying nature’s treasures. The web app is accessible and well designed, and the experience is also available on iOS and Android for finding critters in the field. Gamification features engage users towards contributing regularly. There is not a leaderboard, but top photos of the day are featured and reward users for contributing (check out yesterdays winning photo of a whale shark from user JessyZich). The overall design of the website is excellent, drawing on many of the design philosophies of gamification and engagement. Like this idea -as I’m a big fan of gamification in general - though I’m a bit uncertain about their slogan. I agree- much like “Mitochondrial Eve”, I dislike calling this “project Noah”. How about “The Linnaeus Project”? “Darwin’s Scouts”? “The taxonomy merit squad”? So many better names….

realcleverscience:

smarterplanet:

Project Noah Gamifies all that Nature has to Offer | Gamification Blog

Ever wondered what plant rooted itself in your garden, or what strange bug somehow survived the bitter cold outside to call your house its home? Or maybe on vacation to warmer reaches, you came across a disturbingly large insect? Some might run the other way, but if you are like me, you’re asking “what the hell is that?” Project Noah brings together a community that can help. It’s been out for over a year, and Project Noah has already engaged thousands of users in the age-old game that has attracted the likes of Darwin and Teddy Roosevelt: discovering and identifying nature’s treasures.

The web app is accessible and well designed, and the experience is also available on iOS and Android for finding critters in the field. Gamification features engage users towards contributing regularly. There is not a leaderboard, but top photos of the day are featured and reward users for contributing (check out yesterdays winning photo of a whale shark from user JessyZich). The overall design of the website is excellent, drawing on many of the design philosophies of gamification and engagement.

Like this idea -as I’m a big fan of gamification in general - though I’m a bit uncertain about their slogan.

I agree- much like “Mitochondrial Eve”, I dislike calling this “project Noah”. How about “The Linnaeus Project”? “Darwin’s Scouts”? “The taxonomy merit squad”?

So many better names….

2011.12.24  1:38pm  ∞

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    I agree- much like “Mitochondrial Eve”, I dislike calling this “project Noah”. How about “The Linnaeus Project”?...
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    It’s a dream come true! I’m downloading the app right now!
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    Like this idea -as I’m...general - though I’m...bit...
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