links for 2008-04-03

3rd April 2008

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AppleInsider | Using iPod & iPhone Video Out: Background and In-Depth Review (20 Dec 2007)

(tags: iPod iphone tv video apple Macintosh mac)
Alice.org

an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web

(tags: animation children computing DigitalStorytelling programming school secondlife visualization fun gamedev Games innovation internet kids multimedia virtual VirtualWorlds toys technology education Storytelling software)
Building Virtual Worlds: A Carnegie Mellon Project Course

Building Virtual Worlds’ goal is to take students with varying talents, backgrounds, and perspectives and put them together to do what they couldn’t do alone.

(tags: programming education virtual VirtualWorlds teaching colleges collaborativeprojects collaboration pbl ProjectBasedLearning)
Caitlin Kelleher -Assistant Professor - Computer Science and Engineering Washington University in St. Louis

My research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction and Computational Learning Environments. In particular, I am interested in creating programming environments that engage a broad spectrum of children.

(tags: education elearning programming DigitalStorytelling)
Storytelling Alice

Storytelling Alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad spectrum of middle school students (particularly girls) to learn to program computers through creating short 3D animated movies.

(tags: animation art children education programming Games elearning gaming Storytelling students digitalnatives DigitalStorytelling digitalculture DigitalLiteracy equity)
Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce :: Hearing - 1 April 2008

(tags: avatar education secondlife Videos virtual VirtualWorlds Government policy Politics)
Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center

The high concept behind both the Center and the Masters program is to have technologists and fine artists work together on projects that produce artifacts that are intended to entertain, inform, inspire, or otherwise affect an audience/guest/player/partic

(tags: technology education entertainment game gamedev Games media classroom workforceneeds programming school schools training university)
YouTube - Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

(tags: organization presentation time video lecture inspiration gtd)
The Mindset of Project-Based Learning - Practical Theory (Chris Lehman - 17 Oct 2007)

(tags: ProjectBasedLearning pbl education EducationReform schoolreform school2.0)
Randy Pausch’s Home Page

(tags: inspiration lecture organization programming video)

On this day..

College students: Win $$$ for developing social networking apps - 2008
Head faking kids to love programming and change the world - 2008
KidCast Podcasting Awards - 2007
Podcast49: Open the Door - Conversation, Complexity, and Messy Assessment - 2006
The 2nd US Civil War - 2006
Skull Island Game - 2006
Responses to Digital Storytelling - 2006
Embracing Technology for Positive Change - 2006
EdTech: Tool for Empowerment, Vocational Opportunities, Social Change - 2005

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1 On April 3rd, 2008, Carl Anderson said:

It looks like you have been looking at educational uses of virtual worlds lately. I have spent quite a bit of time over the past year and a half studying this technology and have developed or rather adapted an approach a bit different structuring virtual world environments as three dimensional immersive WebQuests.

In Active Worlds, teleport to:

world: aw
coordinates: 6893S 13857E
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Carl Anderson’s del.icio.us tags “virtualworlds”