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We have installed a suite of different programming tools on all the college computers.

• Alice has some GUI tools to move images around a screen in order to create a 3D story.
• Ren'Py supports the creation of visual novels. 

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David from PAA dropped me this link to a demonstration of Photosynth. It includes a good demonstration of grabbing a set of photographs from flicker to morph into a virtual and interactive 3D environment. Using a ZUI or Zooming User Interface to tag your photographs and swim about the metaverse or fully immersive 3D virtual space is a fascinating ( Read more... )

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Last month, I had my senior students pen some words about the kind of educational schooling that they thought we would be would be teaching students in a dozen years time. They presented a fantastic collection of creative stories ranging from disembodied brains in bottles to virtual classrooms connected by networked sneakers. On the GIL list, Lindy ( Read more... )