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Celebrating 2010

Posted by Bron Stuckey on Jan 12, 2011 in QA Community of Practice, Research, Teacher Voices

In late December Quest Atlantis won the Edublog Award for Best Educational use of a Virtual World. This award was nominated for and voted  by our teachers, so that now the world knows what we all know about Quest Atlantis: it really is the best! Of the 500 votes in this category Quest Atlantis received [...]

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Bragging Rights: Sharing exemplary Quest responses

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, [...]

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QA Engagement and Questing on a Sick Day

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 [...]

 
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QA Student Congress: A Celebration of Participatory Design

Posted by Bron Stuckey on Feb 2, 2010 in Design, Kid Voices, QA Community of Practice, Teacher Voices

Come share your ideas on a Student Congress. An idea had been mulling for some months now about creating a world in Quest Atlantis where students can take up ownership, leadership and have opportunities to share their lifeworld experiences in the QA social commitments. The first formal meeting of our steering group happened this week [...]

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Teacher Connection Update December

Posted by Bron Stuckey on Dec 10, 2009 in QA Community of Practice, Teacher Training, Teacher Voices

Teacher Connections restarted back in September and the last 4 months have raised some very interesting discussions as well as opportunities for QA teachers to locate mentors, local teaching buddies, join collaborative projects and source prospective co-questing classes. The December meetings were small but very engaging as many Southern Hemisphere schools are now preparing for end of the year and retiring their QA classes and US counterparts were getting back in the swing after Thanksgiving celebrations.

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Nurturing the Learner with Quest Atlantis

Posted by Lucy Barrow on Nov 3, 2009 in Kid Voices, Teacher Voices

It was exactly twelve months ago that I attended a Quest Atlantis presentation at the Australian Computers in Education Conference in Canberra. Since then, an amazing journey has unfolded for our students, teachers and even parents! Participating in QA has far exceeded our expectations. At first, it was hoped that QA would provide us with [...]

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Quest Atlantis in Central Florida

Posted by jrdeleon on Sep 20, 2009 in QA Community of Practice, Teacher Voices

 The Quest Atlantis experience is taking over the Central Florida area like a storm. As Central Floridians, we have grown accustomed to all kinds of storms, but Quest Atlantis is “blowing everyones mind”. Starting with the first two schools last year, we now have nine trained schools within the Seminole County area. At the same [...]

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Cow Tipping Comes of Age!

Posted by Bron Stuckey on Aug 29, 2009 in QA Community of Practice, Teacher Training, Teacher Voices

My post here builds on Donna’s recent comments about the fun quotient in teacher learning in Quest Atlantis. Teacher involvement in Quest Atlantis is not only a chance to get back in touch with your sense of play but a chance to be part of a burgeoning professional learning community. Let me describe some of [...]

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Quest Atlantis on TV this weekend

Posted by gmusante on Aug 14, 2009 in In The News, Modern Prometheus, Teacher Voices

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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Quest Atlantis Teachers invade Second Life

Posted by Bron Stuckey on Jul 15, 2009 in QA Community of Practice, Teacher Training, Teacher Voices, Uncategorized

On the Tuesday, July 7th I was invited to be the ISTE guest speaker in Second Life to talk about Quest Atlantis. The presentation came to life when 8 QA teachers in the audience came up to join me on stage and to describe their experience with QA and field questions about educational practices and [...]

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