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It's a puzzle game for the Mac, Wii and PC where you build structures that behave differently depending on weather, the properties of the materials used, and the different forces that act on them. These are the dry topics covered in my (hated) high school physics class, but are presented here in an inituitive and scaffolded way... in a bizarre Tim Burton-esque universe. -
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There are tons of amazing videos about education, innovation, and design on TED.org, the website for the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference. I'll post a few that are relevant to our class here, but go explore! All sorts of fascinating things are covered by inspiring people like Al Gore, Jane Goodall, and featured in this video, researcher and hacker-for-good, Johnny Lee. -
1voteInteresting use of the Wii for music education (and Fun!)
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This EDUCAUSE paper discusses the educational uses of the Wii video game system. -
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Johnny Chung Lee, an HCI Researcher at Carnegie Mellon, recently posted some information on a low-cost, multi-point interactive whiteboard that he created using the Wiimote. His system used the Wiimote to capture movement of an IR-emitting pen device. The Wiimote tracks and relays the information back to a PC. Any surface can be used, including a wall, table top or even your laptop screen. If you use two IR pens, you can even do multipoint manipulation. The video shows it all and you can download the software free from his site. -
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America's Army is an interesting product. Used primarily as a public relations and recruiting tool and targeted specifically at the teenage male demographic, the game has been a relative success in the past. This is especially thanks to the fact that it's available for free, though it has made it to retail in the form of an Xbox version and soon an Xbox 360 version. But although America's Army may be just a game, there are some who take it very seriously Veterans recently banded together in St. Louis at an expo to protest the game. Clad in black shirts and marching uniforms, the group of roughly 90 vets—known as the "Iraq Veterans Against the War"—chanted in unison while standing at attention: "War is not a game!" This isn't the first time that America's Army has been the subject of protest.
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