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Machinima = "machine" + "cinema." Machinima is filmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies. In other words, filming what happens in Second Life, including classes held there.

A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more social tolerance, more forgiving human relations, or better home lives.

The purpose of this wiki is to explore, explain and support non-traditional modes of publishing one's creations. In most cases, existing work and creations by others, using these same technologies, can also be used to support teaching and learning. These technologies fall under the broad definition of the "Read-Write-Web" or Web 2.0. There are hundreds of sites and services where you can create, modify and upload your own content, whatever it may be. (Designed for Connecticut College faculty and students.)

"The Wherigo Player is a GPS-enabled application that allows you to play interactive cartridges in the real world. Explore new locations, solve puzzles or immerse yourself in a fictional story using only a GPS-enabled device." Can create location-based educational games.

"Simulate real relief efforts in Food Force: A major crisis has developed in the Indian Ocean and the United Nations is sending you on a mission to help feed the millions of people who are going without food! Designed by the United Nations, the premise of the game is to try and stop world hunger by strategic planning (though luck seems to be a bigger contributer to success than skill at times...)" Game is designed for native speakers (not language learners) but could be incorporated at upper levels into unit on food/hunger. Free downloadable software for Windows.

Google Earth has added to its software a 3-D simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum and the Circus Maximus, officials said Wednesday. The program, which gives users access to maps and global satellite imagery, now hosts a new layer that allows surfers to see how Rome might have looked in A.D. 320, a bustling city of about 1 million people under Emperor Constantine. Pop-up windows provide information on the monuments and visitors also can enter some of the most important sites, including the Senate and the Colosseum, to observe the architecture and marble decorations, Google Italia and the city of Rome said in a joint statement.

In the Ancient Rome 3D layer, you can: * Fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D. * Tour the interior of famous buildings. * Visit the sites in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar. * Learn about how the Romans lived.