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Lee Sheldon assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University format his multiplayer-game design course as a multiplayer-game, which increased significantly students level of engagement. According to Sheldon his students are "the gamer generation, they are the social-networking generation, so this class is couched in the terms that they understand." Lee Sheldon’s grading scheme is based on game scoring system; Experience Points, as in the World of Warcraft. I love the idea!
More info via: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
I have recently found an interesting contribution from Worcraft community regarding educational aspects of gaming on line: Gettin' Good Gear: Play, Pedagogy, and Engagement in World of Warcraft
Gaming the Classroom!
Gaming Can Make a Better World
Jane McGonigal on TED: “Instead of providing gamers with better and more immersive alternatives to reality, I want all of us to be become responsible for providing the world with a better and more immersive reality.” via: turbulence.org
Free sound tracks from Moby
Moby share sound tracks, with the ‘independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short‘. His explanation to this nice gesture you will find here and the ‘film music‘ at mobygratis.com
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages
"Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936" via The New York Times
Concept Art from CreatureBox
Concept Artists Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin from CreatureBox speaking about their workflow in the interview via photoshopcafe.com.
Colour mood
Four interesting web-projects : Cymbolism from Suffolk Software at cymbolism.com, which aims to quantify the association between colours and words with the help of the visitors. As a feedback participating public can see statistics with colours attached to specific word.
Another project is We Feel Fine by Kamvar and Harris at : www.wefeelfine.org . It is a database of human feelings collected over three years from personal blogs on Internet. With the interactive application’s help I was able to get valuable statistics on most expressed feelings according to gender, geography and time. The project is very well documented in the book form: We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion,, which I highly recommend.
I also find interesting tool from cssprism.com, which aloud to view and modify the color spectrum from any website or CSS file. Another useful application is: Adobes Kuler: and by them recommend links to color theory.
Creative alphabets and letters
You'll find plenty of inspiration at: davidairey.com, sharesomecandy.com and letterplayground.com
Pikmin Project as Lego creations
Norwegian Filip Felberg has been building with Lego blocks characters of his favorite video game Nintendo's Pikmin. Characters gallery on Flickr
Info Via: gamesetwatch.com ,
Tilt-Shift Photography (miniature faking )
Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial via: tiltshiftphotography.net
Oldest Animation
A 5,200-year-old bowl discovered in Iran seems to be the oldest animation. More info via: animationmagazine.net
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