Aug 17 2005 - 02:56 PM
Links from Gus' Presentation
Here are the links that Gus mentioned during her presentation:
http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/start/qaworlds.html
Quest Atlantis, an educational MMORPG produced on an NSF grant at the U. of Indiana.
http://www.educationarcade.org/gtt/revolution/
Revolution, a historical roleplaying mod using the Neverwinter Nights engine, produced at MIT.
http://www.educationarcade.org/
More on Revolution.
http://www.educationarcade.org/gtt/Hephaestus/Intro.htm
Hephaestus, a massively multiplayer online sim on the XBox, engineering robots to accomplish things in the world; elementary physics.
http://terranova.blogs.com/
A central blog for academic discussion of the implications of video games.
http://www.habbohotel.co.uk/habbo/en/
Habbo Hotel, a European multiplayer environment for kids
http://www.lindenlabs.com
Linden Labs, makers of Second Life, a non-quest driven MMORPG
http://www.blizzard.com/
Blizzard, makers of Warcraft
James Paul Gee's book, "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy"