An overarching goal of this project is to get more people involved in all dimensions of collecting crowdsourced and geolocated Internet measurements. This includes:
We have created a set of resources for teachers and students to help them get started with creating games for NetGauge. Twine--the underlying tool for creating games for NetGauge--is easy to learn and provides opportunities for student creativity to drive computational thinking (e.g., abstraction, flow control, looping, and remixing).Â
While NetGauge Games focuses on new ways to incentivize and motivate folks to get engaged with measuring the Internet, there are many other tools that are useful for collecting this type of data. Some of our favorites are: