I saw this Wednesday on Wonderland, Thursday on MetaFilter, and was reminded of it again on BoingBoing late Friday night. You get others to sign up and assign experience points (XP) for completing chores. I finally asked the “How would this fit in a classroom?” question the third time I saw it, and I came […]
Peggy Sheehy is a trailblazer. Sheehy is a media specialist at Suffern Middle School. Her daughter nagged her for months to check out a project she was working on, so one day Sheehy created an account in Second Life. It didn’t take long for her to see the potential of the 3D virtual world in […]
1. Cockroach Algebra– is a game where you have to figure the slope of the cockroach’s path before they can breed. If you take too long you’ll have a whole mess of roaches running around on your screen. Get it right and you can smash them with rockets, lasers or even a shoe. Level one […]
As I was trolling through my bloglines subscription a couple weeks ago, I found a series of Top 10 lists that might interest you… Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006 There are some beautiful photos of comets, galaxies, and planets. There’s even an amazing picture of the shuttle and the space station shadowed in the […]
The Wii now uses current weather conditions for regions to control the weather in certain games. I’m just thinking of all the cool things that you could do with games that incorporate real data on the fly. Want to create virtual labs that use real data being generated in space? Makes you wonder how long […]
MobZombies The twist is that a player’s physical position controls the position of their zombie-world avatar, forcing the player to actually move around the real world to succeed in the game.The virtual zombie-world is a simple environment — the game’s complexity comes from players having to negotiate real-world objects in order to avoid the zombies […]