Playing the Numbers Game

We’re quickly approaching one of my favorite times of the year. There is nothing better than when the US and Australian school years overlap. Kids get such a great experience to make friends all over the world. In late March and the month of October, we average over 10,000 lines of chat a day in [...]

PD Theme Parks…Your Ticket to a Richer Teaching Experience

Each of the main Units currently have theme parks: Taiga, Virtual Mesa Verde, Plague and Statistics. In the coming months, additional theme parks for Spacenik and Drakos will also be found in Teacherville.

Tags: Ander City, Classroom practice, community of practice, Modern Prometheus, Taiga, teacher contribution, theme-based instruction

3D or 2D emphasis?

QA designers trip the text-fantastic every day. As the primary dialogue writer on the project, I hit the quote mark key on my keyboard more frequently than most journalists. Experience has taught us that students who use QA can benefit in a myriad number of ways from the dialogue we write. Reading skills can improve, [...]

Immersive Learning: it’s game on!

Just came across this video with QA and World of Warcraft in the same video post! Wow, isn’t that a cool moment for a designer…my work posted in the same video with Warcraft. Not that I have any grandiose visions that this is a meaningful comparison, but big dreams Watch Video. //–< ![CDATA[ $j("a#mesa_verde_trailer").fancybox({ 'hideOnContentClick' [...]

Quest Atlantis on TV this weekend

So many exciting things are in the works with Quest Atlantis and the partnership with One Planet Education Network! A quick example – the cable network television show, “Designing Spaces, Back to School special” will feature a fabulous segment on Quest Atlantis at work at a middle School in Durham, N.C., and the role OPEN [...]

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New OTAK Hub

As I’m sure anyone who has been in the OTAK Hub in the past couple of days knows, there are some new changes in QA. We were really excited to see that some of the first people to log in were teachers and that the changes were met with enthusiasm. The students had some mixed-reactions [...]