Posted by Scott Miller on Mar 28, 2010 in
Design
Community News/QVille To start with, let me explain just who I am and what I do at Quest Atlantis. I (Scott Miller…aka Enkar in QA) am a retired Tier-2 Technical Manager at AT&T. “Tier-2” means I provided technical support to the top-craft technicians in the field. Since 1998 I have been involved with the online [...]
Tags: 3D Design Q-ville
Posted by ppettyjohn on Mar 22, 2010 in
Design,
Research
How does one test the implications of his or her ethical stance? How does one realize the potentialities of one’s ethical stance on a community, national, and global level? Often times, ethical teaching and thinking are reduced to a specialized form of rhetoric where one is required to “consider” all sides and make a recommendation [...]
Tags: Playable fictions
Posted by jwatson on Mar 8, 2010 in
QA Community of Practice,
Teacher Voices
Every school day in Quest Atlantis, hundreds of students submit responses to Quests, and teachers all over the world review those responses. And every workday, I receive several notifications from teachers who want to highlight an extraordinary response submitted by one of their students. I always get a little thrill when I read those nominations, [...]
Tags: Quests curriculum
Posted by Jeff Agamenoni on Mar 4, 2010 in
Teacher Voices
A vice-principal came into my classroom a few days ago. My students were working on the “Ingolstadt” mission in Quest Atlantis. She watched them for a few minutes and said, “Man, are they ever ENGAGED”. I have a friend that calls virtual games like this and the activities they contain, “Behaviorist Pedagogy“. I think it [...]
Posted by StevieS on Mar 1, 2010 in
Kid Voices
It’s been hard to avoid Olympic fever these last two weeks. Certainly the kids have gotten in to it with the cheers for their countries. The Olympics provide an opportunity for people around the world to come together and highlight their talents. The students in QA are going through some of the same experiences; while [...]