What We've Learned About Virtual Reality, Part 2! www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/what-we...

As we prepare to release our first two Virtual Reality apps, some reflections on the taxonomy of VR interactions: www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/what-we...

For those in regions where cactus fruits are ripening, a reminder that there are several effective ways to make and store juice from prickly pears! www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/making-...

Photography *of* photography! We're getting ready to promote our new release Nutrition Counselor VR. It's hard to capture someone playing virtual reality and also the visuals of what's happening in the application! Excited for today's photo session with our university photographer.

Our free interactive nutrition tool, MyPlateMyDay.org, includes foods that are traditional to New Mexico and our region. Examples include combination foods like mutton stew, posole, chile rellenos, or Indian tacos, as well as calabacitas, nopalitos, frybread, tortillas and conchas!

Flashback to this photo from Play, Make, Learn last month in Wisconsin. It was great to see our game Cozy River Valley at the demo table with other finalists for the Gee Awards. Congratulations to Velvet 89, the winner in the small studios category.

Once the program-specific practices are put in place, the carbon credit company or third-party company steps in to measure how much carbon is being stored in the soil. youtu.be/xb-kt3JPLSs?...

The Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Life and Human Sciences, convenes annually to provide awards and feedback through the ACE Critique & Awards Program. This year has been a success for our products: www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/.../our-awar....

September means harvest season for fall produce. Check out our free, interactive worker training resource, Produce TRAINer, which focuses on risk assessment and SOPs for small produce farms. Learn more in this blog post by @pnmartinez.bsky.social www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/produce...

We are pleased to announce that our interactive module Stay Safe Working With Horses has been featured among national 4-H resources on Clover: 4-h.org/clover/about/ Since Clover by 4-H requires a login, see the next post for a link to the free module.

Earlier this summer, Learning Games Lab faculty member Dr. Pamela N. Martinez was awarded the prestigious USDA E. Kika de la Garza Fellowship, from the USDA, which brings together experts from Hispanic Serving Institutions to explore workforce development initiatives. Congratulations, Pamela!

A recent article in the Journal of Applied Economics Teaching Resources explores the impact of Unpeeled, an educational game created by our studio that teaches consumers about food marketing labels, such as non-GMO labels, to inform economic choices. www.aetrjournal.org/UserFiles/fi...

Do you have what it takes to lead the squad? Use your team of heroes to research, educate, heal, and protect people. Keep the community from getting sicker! outbreaksquad.com #kids #kidgame #health #superhero

This interactive module helps learners practice preservation practices for scientific study. Collections are important to science, and each preserved insect gives a snapshot of its population at the time it was collected. insectcollectionlab.nmsu.edu/index.html #insects #education

Video production is one of our specialties, and we've put a lot of thought into what information fits best with which format. Is your educational topic in need of a comprehensive overview or a quick social media reel? Learn more from our blog: www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/video-c...

A fun, engaging comic book, designed to help learners ages 8-18 understand how to ride All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) safely. Treadsylvania isn’t your traditional ATV training program, but instead, it is a fun, visually appealing adventure story. treadsylvania.com

Game Over Gopher is an exciting tower defense game built on a coordinate grid. Players must defend the large prized carrot by feeding waves of hungry gophers. This game helps middle schoolers understand how to graph data points on a coordinate grid. mathsnacks.com

Carbon credit markets give farmers and ranchers a chance to gain extra income by using sustainable practices that pull carbon out of the air and help to store it in the ground. Learn more about how these programs work with this video from our Dept. of Extension Economics: youtu.be/xb-kt3JPLSs?...

Learn more about how the community check in functions to create an atmosphere of cooperation and trust, in the Learning Games Lab youth sessions. learninggameslabtoolkit.org

Survive the zombie outbreak by managing your finances. Do you have what it takes? Use a credit card, get college loans, buy a car, rent a house: It's your decision. itunes.apple.com/.../night-of.... #games #educationaltools #zombies #debt #finances

Math Snacks isn't a curriculum, but a series of activities you can use with the curriculum you are already using in grades 4-8. Math Snacks materials address critical content including number sense, ratio, proportion, measurement, scale factor, and pre-algebra. mathsnacks.com #nmsu #educationaltools

Our flagship product, Math Snacks, is a suite of animations and mini-games designed to help students grasp concepts in middle school. Each snack presents a mathematical concept. Free for use in a classroom or on your own. Learn more at mathsnacks.com #K12 #gamebasedlearning #mathed #edgames #gbl

Our free interactive food science modules model lab skills and concepts relevant to various life sciences, including using a microscope, testing for aflatoxin, culturing bacteria, measuring and adjusting pH, and using various types of lab equipment. #K12ed #college virtuallabs.nmsu.edu

Theme Park Kitchen supports food safety learning for middle school youth. This fun, multi-level game teaches safe food handling, including handwashing, cooking foods to the proper temperature and avoiding cross-contamination. Play it for free with the link in bio! #nmsu #gaming #education

What is the goal of youth engaging with screens in the Learning Games Lab? To use digital games and tools mindfully, purposefully and effectively. For more about how we accomplish this together, read more in the Learning Games Lab Toolkit: learninggameslabtoolkit.org

Farmers and scientists collect and test water samples from water sources including ponds, streams, rivers and canals, or from water treatment plants, to make sure they are safe for use. Learn how to sample water for testing here: conserve.nmsu.edu #educationaltools #instructive #safetyfirst

This month we hosted two week-long Youth Summer Sessions as well as a half-day session of game testing. Thank you to our student consultants for signing up and giving us valuable evaluations of games, participating in our design activities, and working hard on their own game pitches. #LGLThinkTanks

There is no 5-second rule. Designed for tweens to teens, our "Don't Be Gross" series of animated videos raise awareness about actions we take each day that may spread germs and about positive steps we can take to prevent illness. DontBeGross.org

2k likes on a thread of all text? What is this a website for words?

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

Natasha Parks, UF/IFAS Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent enjoys using Night of the Living Debt as a teaching tool in her financial literacy classes. To learn more and play the game online visit nightofthelivingdebt.org #gamer #learning #finance

Today we celebrate Juneteenth, a day of reflection and resilience that marks the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the United States on June 19, 1865. ❤️💛💚🖤

We asked our developers "What's something that's common knowledge in your field that outsiders may not know?" and here is what they had to say! #nmsu #gamedevelopers

Last week concluded our week-long Summer Sessions of 2025! Thank you to our student consultants for signing up and giving us valuable evaluations of games, participating in our design activities, and game pitches. #NMSU #education #youthprograms

✨Cozy River Valley✨is based on agricultural practices in arid irrigated systems, with gameplay covering 60 years of farming where you make choices about crops, water, community and environment. 🌱 cozyrivervalley.nmsu.edu 🌱 #nmsu #stemeducation #educationalgames

The first week of Session 1 came to an end today! Thank you to those who participated and for the parents that came to support. #stemeducation #youthprogram #nmsu

Agrinautica won a Silver in the 2019 Serious Play Awards! Agrinautica supports pre-algebra learning by building expressions and growing beautiful plants, minerals, and fungi in new planetary environments. Visit: mathsnacks.org #gbl #gamebasedlearning #LearningGamesLab #mathed #STEMed #middleschool

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Wondering about how youth spend their time in our summer sessions? (1/3) Here's an example activity: learninggameslabtoolkit.nmsu.edu/materials/sh... After brainstorming and collecting ideas on post-its, learners create a “Game Review Criteria” document showing what they care about in games.

Interested in exploring rangeland ecology, productivity, and sustainability? To learn about how various plants function in working rangelands (including beneficial plants and noxious plants) and to learn their Navajo/Diné names, consult navajorange.nmsu.edu.

Do you engage with young people on food related topics? Organizations such as 4-H, school clubs, or other entities can host a Food Waste Hackathon, enabling youth to conceptualize solutions for their communities. For free educational resources to help you plan a hackathon: HackingFoodWaste.nmsu.edu

**REGISTRATION OPEN FOR LEARNING GAMES LAB SUMMER THINK TANKS ** This summer, the Learning Games Lab is hosting in-person sessions for two age groups: - middle school students, grades 6-8 - high school students, grades 9-12. Apply here: acesnmsu.az1.qualtrics.com/.../SV_bEehG...

Finals week is closing in, and students are feeling the stress. Please enjoy this creation, starring the carrot from Game Over Gopher, created by our student worker Joel. (with apologies to Edvard Munch)

We were pleased to host La Union 6th-grade students this week, in collaboration with the NMSU STEM Outreach Center. They learned about the lab and played our food safety game Theme Park Kitchen.

Behind this scenes this morning at the Fabian Garcia Agricultural Science Center, capturing insights about chile hybridization from research scientist Danise Coon. Thanks to our video colleagues in the Department of Innovative Media Research and Extension!

Do you know the science behind food safety? In collaboration with the University of Maine, we created these combo animation/video pieces with real life examples to explore how food safety works in the kitchen, the processing facility, and on the plate. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Next time you playtest, try taking your game away early. If you do, testers will usually say something like "wait, I just need to X" or "Can I finish Y?" Pay attention to what they want to keep doing, it's one of the easiest ways to see what's sticky about your game. #gamedev #playtesting

New blog post by Matheus Cezarotto, faculty member in New Mexico State University Innovative Media Research and Extension, about the design process behind our upcoming food safety game, Market Set Go!, created as part of a USDA-NIFA funded project led by Kristen Gibson of University of Arkansas.

Our newest learning game, Cozy River Valley, is live! Farm for 60 years as you make choices about crops, water, community and environment in a desert river valley. Play the game at cozyrivervalley.nmsu.edu Funded by USDA-NIFA, project led by @ucmerced.bsky.social