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Epic Brings the Vision to Reality
I wanted to share a post because I was feeling so grateful this week. The initial vision six years ago to create a game that would help kids care and learn about academic content while at the same time...
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Family Quest: Bringing parents and children together
Can video games support family learning and bonding? To explore the answer to this question, we designed Family Quest. What is Family Quest? Family Quest is a new program within the context of Quest...
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Biogen Idec Foundation Grant Supports Taiga in Durham NC Schools
I’m feeling humbled today. The Biogen Idec Foundation, supporting one of the world’s leading global biotechnology companies and a Fortune 500 company with more than $4 billion in revenue, has awarded...
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Quest Givers
We started a great project over the summer and hopefully some of you have already noticed a few of the changes. Quests are the main means of assessment for teachers in Quest Atlantis, but they appear...
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A Never-Ending Story….
As our understanding of transformational play evolves, so must the space in which that play occurs. Quest Atlantis has always been a fluid, non-static environment that both its students and creators...
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Celebrating 2010
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...
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Internationalizing resources in Quest Atlantis
Credit: Christian F. Burprich Lately, I have been working towards internationalization of Quest Atlantis resources such as missions, dialogue pages and quests. The impetus for this challenging task is...
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Capitalizing on Play Time
Student building in QVille One of our main goals with Quest Atlantis is to position students to be actively engaged in the learning process and not just passive recipients. This still requires quite a...
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Vacationing in Quest Atlantis
The major units of Quest Atlantis (Plague, Taiga, Mesa Verde, etc) are housed in special virtual worlds designed specifically for those experiences. Unfortunately, that means that only those students...
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Building Our Online Identities
“Hello 65427! How are you today?” “Great BrianSmith. What about you?” As schools in North America are starting their school years and picking back up in Quest Atlantis, this is a great time to start...
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