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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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PD Theme Parks…Your Ticket to a Richer Teaching Experience

Posted by dstevens on Nov 20, 2009 in Design, In The News, QA Community of Practice, Teacher Training

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.

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Bringing stories into the classroom

Posted by Melissa Gresalfi on Aug 7, 2009 in Research

We have spent a lot of time this summer thinking about what goes on in classrooms when students log off of Quest Atlantis….how do the stories and experiences that kids have in the game come into the classroom?  We’re especially interested in the whole-class conversations that take place around the content that kids are learning; how, [...]

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