Where? Asilomar Conference Grounds on the Monterey Peninsula, CA (about 1.5 hours from San Jose International Airport).

When? May 20-22, Sunday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon.

Graduate Continuing Credit AppCamp is the equivalent to a 3 credit our college class in the Design of Children's Interactive Media. Continuing Education Credit is available from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education ($100).

Who? Sessions are being created by makers, designers, reviewers and researchers in the children's app space. These include Lorraine Akemann, Moms With Apps; Thushan Amarasiriwardena, Launchpad Toys; Jeff Braun, Maxis Co-Founder; Daren Carstens, Carstens Studios; Barbara Chamberlin, Director, New Mexico State Learning Lab; Caroline Hu Flexer, Duck Duck Moose; Theodore Gray, Founder and Creative Director, Touch Press; Claire Green, Parents' Choice Foundation; John Ittelson, Professor Emeritus, CSU Monterey Bay; Björn Jeffery, CEO, Toca Boca; David Kleeman, President, American Center for Children and Media; Michel Kripalani, President, Oceanhouse Media; Ann McCormick, Learning Friends; Ingrid Moon, Disney; Cynthia Nugent, Children's Author; Robin Raskin, Living in Digital Times; Andy Russell, LaunchPad Toys; Mark Schlichting, Noodle Works; Carly Shuler, Joan Ganz Cooney Center; Keli Winters, Evan Moor.

Cost & Registration: $1290, ($990 for 2 or more), not counting Asilomar housing ($149/night/double). Don't delay -- Dust or Magic has limited space and sells out every year, although there is no cost or space limits for the Sunday AppFest, which includes the Theo Gray lecture at 4 PM. Housing forms are required to get rooms. These will be sent in May. Click here to register online. Seats left as of May 10: 5

Can't make it this year? Send your app, with as many codes as you'd like to share. Make up one black and white 8.5 x 11 inch PDF with your and send it to Warren by email. Put the codes on little tear-off tabs. We'll do the cutting and post your form.

Above, AppCamp 2, Class of 2011

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The San Jose International (SJC) is 80 miles (1.5 hours) to the North.
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is 110 miles (2.5 hours) to the North.
The Monterey Peninsula Airport (MRY) is just 8 miles from Asilomar.
The airports in San Jose and San Francisco are served by the Monterey Airbus, an airport shuttle service that can bring travelers to the conference grounds.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
From Los Angeles
Asilomar is approximately 325 miles from downtown Los Angeles (about 310 miles from LAX). Take 101 North though Salinas to 156 West. Take 156 West to Highway 1 South, through Monterey to the Pebble Beach / Pacific Grove exit, and Highway 68 West. For about 3-1/2 miles you will then be on a portion of Highway 68 West that is also called the Holman Highway. Stay on Highway 68 West/Holman Highway until it becomes a city street called Forest Avenue. Continue on Forest Avenue for about 1 mile and make a left turn onto Sinex Avenue. In just under 1 mile, Sinex Avenue ends right at the front gates to Asilomar.
From Salinas
Take Highway 68 West to Highway 1 South to Highway 68 West to Pacific Grove. Just past the Monterey Peninsula Airport, Highway 68 West overlaps Highway 1 for about 5 or 6 miles. Stay on Highway 68 West/Highway 1 and take the Pacific Grove exit. For about 3-1/2 miles you will then be on a portion of Highway 68 West that is also called the Holman Highway. Stay on Highway 68 West/Holman Highway until it becomes a city street called Forest Avenue. Continue on Forest Avenue for about 1 mile and make a left turn onto Sinex Avenue. In just under 1 mile, Sinex Avenue ends right at the front gates to Asilomar.
Airport Transportation
Local taxi companies service the Monterey Peninsula Airport as does the Monterey-Salinas Transit bus system. Airport shuttle service to and from San Jose and San Francisco airports can be arranged in advance through Monterey Salinas Airbus by calling 831-373-7777 or visiting the Monterey Airbus website.
Public Transportation
The Monterey-Salinas Transit bus system stops at the Monterey airport. The buses are clean and wheelchair accessible. The fare to Asilomar is $1.75 one way, and the total trip is about 30 minutes. Take any number Monterey-bound bus. Ask for a transfer when you board. Transfers are free. Tell the driver to announce the Monterey Transit Center, which is where you will disembark and transfer to the #1 Asilomar bus. There is rarely more than a 5-minute wait at the transfer point. The #1 bus will let you off at the front gate to the Asilomar Conference Grounds. MST buses also have room for two bicycles per bus. For more information, visit the Monterey-Salinas Transit website.
Limousine Service
Main Event Limousines pride themselves on excellence that will make your event a memorable one. Transportation specialists for any size group or function based in Monterey California. Taxicab Service Taxicabs are available at the Monterey Airport for transfer to Asilomar. Fares are $20 - $25 one-way. For more information, visit Main Event Limousine website.
Car Rental
The following are some of the car rental companies that service the Monterey area. It is highly recommended that you call to reserve your car well in advance, since some local events such as golf tournaments and music festivals have been known to create a rental car shortage.

• American Auto Rental (831) 649-1611
• Avis® Rent A Car (831) 647-7140
• Budget® Rent A Car (831) 373-1899
• Dollar® Rent A Car (831) 422-2619
• Enterprise® Rent-A-Car (831) 649-6300
• Hertz® Worldwide Car Rental (831) 373-3318
• Monterey Rent-A-Roadster (831) 647-1929
• National Car Rental® (831) 373-4181
  

Theodore Gray is an award-winning software developer, author, and popularizer of science. Having started out in chemistry, he joined Stephen Wolfram in 1987 in the creation of Mathematica. Gray pioneered the concept of Mathematica notebooks—which serve as the main interface to Mathematica, and have made possible the creation of millions of interactive computable documents. Ever since the founding of Wolfram Research, Gray has guided its user interface strategy, and has been responsible for a sequence of major innovations. Over the years Gray has developed an independent interest in science writing and in communicating the excitement and importance of science to a wide audience. He is a Contributing Editor at Popular Science magazine, and has authored its Gray Matter column since 2003. The How 2.0 section containing Gray's column won a National Magazine Award in 2005, and Gray's column is a finalist for its own National Magazine Award for 2010. Gray is the author of Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home–But Probably Shouldn’t, and of the best selling coffee table book The Elements, A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, now the groundbreaking first product of Touch Press. He is also the proprietor of periodictable.com and the creator of the iconic photographic periodic-table poster seen in universities, schools, museums, and on TV shows from MythBusters to Hannah Montana.

Theo Gray

Michel Kripalani is President of Oceanhouse Media, Inc. The company has released more than 280 apps for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet, Kindle Fire and HP TouchPad devices. Kripalani has secured licensing agreements with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, HarperCollins, Random House Children’s Books, Hay House Publishers, Zondervan (a division of HarperCollins), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Mercer Mayer, Soundprints, Andersen Press, Chronicle Books and others. Kripalani is responsible for selecting the company’s product offerings, seeing to it that content is in line with the company’s mantra of “Creativity with Purpose.” He is a strong advocate for developing apps that inspire, educate and uplift. Oceanhouse Media is Kripalani's third start-up. He found prior success with Presto Studios, an independent video game development company he ran for 11 years. Presto Studios had numerous hits including The Journeyman Project series, Myst III: Exile and more. At his first business,
MOOV design (founded in 1989), Kripalani developed and programmed the world’s first interactive multimedia magazine (Verbum Magazine). In addition, Kripalani was a Director of Business Development at Autodesk for many years where he managed relationships with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and other game development studios worldwide. Kripalani resides in Encinitas, California, with his wife, Karen and their two young daughters. Here's is his talk at last year's AppCamp.

Lorraine Akemann is co-founder of Moms With Apps, a network of family-friendly developers who create mobile apps. After launching her own app, she recognized the need for collaborative cross-marketing with other app developers to help gain exposure in the App Store marketplace. Moms With Apps launched in November of 2009 and has grown to represent over 600 independent iOS developers. Her purpose of maintaining the network is to provide marketing support for developers, to be a resource for parents who are looking for educational apps, and to advocate healthy intersections of kids and technology. She holds a BA in Communication from University of California San Diego, and an MBA. Prior to forming Moms With Apps, Lorraine worked in Silicon Valley (Sprint and Cisco), and then opted to raise her two daughters as a stay-at-home mom.

Barbara Chamberlin directs research and development of educational tools at NMSU's Learning Games Lab. She has established a set of protocols for user testing at the lab, including their observation and interview strategies, use of creative development for evaluation, and video closet. She also created the team's instructional design method for developing educational tools,a process they use when developing iPad apps, web-based games, video and related curricula for a wide variety of audiences, on a diverse collection of topics. She is currently conducting research on a USDA obesity prevention grant regarding impacts of exergames, or active video games (exergamesunlocked.com). Her team is also on production of Math Snacks, small animations and minigames funded by NSF to help learners understand concepts behind mathmatics (mathsnacks.com).

Ingrid Moon is an interactive strategist and learning experience designer, as well as a mom, nerd, and athlete. Currently she brings storytelling to life in high-tech, interactive classrooms for Disney English, in which over 14,000 learners ages 2-12 learn and practice English with games, songs, and activities. Learning is constructed by bringing Disney characters and stories to life and interacting with them in a fun, friendly environment that encourages participation and authentic language production. In the prior 15 years Ingrid produced over 150 interactive projects for companies and brands including ABC, Activision, Acura, ADP, Atari, Comcast, Hasbro, Health Net, Intel, Reebok, Sony PlayStation, and Toyota. She consults on branding and reaching audience through online and mobile applications, games, social networking, user-generated content, virtual worlds, intranets and extranets, and interactive whiteboard applications. She holds an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, a B.S. in Film Production from Boston University, and is pursuing her M.S.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. She has taught interaction design, interface design, animation, production management, and career development at the Art Institute of California, Hollywood. Her web site is ingridmoon.blogspot.com

Cynthia Nugent is a Canadian author/illustrator and a popular presenter at schools and libraries. Among her numerous awards are the BC Achievement Award for Early Literacy, Picture Book Quarterly (UK) Best Book, and the Alberta Book Industry Title of the Year. Current publishing projects include writing and illustrating several contracted books, as well as creating an animated book trailer and designing a storybook app for Tradewind Books. Her new picturebook is I Want to Go to the Moon. Cynthia is also a student, writing her thesis on storybook apps in the MA program in Children’s Literature at UBC. http://www.cynthianugent.com