Massive Multiplayer Games, Education, and the K20 Center

An NSF news release on the University of Oklahoma’s K20 Center Digital Game Based Learning project, McLarin Adventures. McLarin Adventures is a Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG… like World of Warcraft) created as a research project into the effectiveness of multiplayer digital games as educational tools. The McLarin Adventures game engine was developed from the […]

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Smartboard Web 2.0 Eye Candy

Thanks to my friend Ewan McIntosh for his posting on Tag Galaxy. Tag Galaxy is…well, just too cool. It’s essentially a tag browser that pulls public Flickr photos by tags, organizes similar tags around them in space, or lets ou view sets of the pictures in a cool interactive globe. You’ve just got to see […]

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Backyard Innovation: Cancer Teatment

In this day and age, it seems we expect medical and high tech innovations to come from academic or industry research laboratories. John Kanzius is a great example of backyard science and how innovation can happen when disciplines cross. His story has already been reported at Popular Science. While no formally trained as an engineer […]

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Innovative Networks and Twine

Innovation is spurred by getting the right people together at the right time. Entrepreneurship is built on collective ideas and knowledge of bringing innovation to market. Rarely is it from a single mind working alone. The key is getting the right minds together. We know a few things about what makes innovation and entrepreneurship successful. […]

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