Multimedia+Learning+&+Authoring

Using and creating animations, diagrams, visualizations, simulations, games...


 * Sample Animations
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 * Sample simulations and other interactive multimedia
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 * Sample educational games
 * [|ECON 201] - Course presented as a game
 * [|Light bot] - teaches programming
 * [|Manufactoria] - engineering/state machines game
 * Educational games for consoles (Nintendo DS, Playstation, etc.)
 * Scribblenauts
 * Little Big Planet
 * Kodu
 * Visualization tools
 * Concept mapping
 * See the Concept Maps page
 * Timelines
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 * Multimedia Learning Research
 * [|25 principles of multimedia learning]
 * Search 'multimedia learning' for several books and articles. Here are some example:
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 * Chapter summaries of a book on multimedia design - []
 * Videogames in Education Research
 * There is a ton of research and enthusiasts for the use of videogames in education. Overall, the evidence is mixed but promising.
 * James Paul Gee's work
 * [|Good videogames and good learning] (pdf)
 * [|What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy] (book)
 * Video: [|Grading with games]
 * [|Games, Learning, Society conference]
 * [|Game Education Summit]
 * [|Serious Games]
 * [|Games in Education]
 * MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - an organization, conference, and database of multimedia and websites for learning (gets a bit out of date, though): []
 * Multimedia Authoring
 * Easy authoring of comic-book-like or trailer-like animations
 * [|Xtranormal]
 * [|GoAnimate]
 * Example: []
 * [|Fuzzwich]
 * [|Animoto]
 * Programming Animations
 * [|Processing] & [|ProcessingJS] (first is java applet, second one is javascript/html5)
 * Browser-based IDEs (integrated development environments: []
 * Kids' Programming Environments
 * [|Scratch]
 * Sample Project created by someone: Magic Color []
 * [|Alice]
 * [|Kodu] for Xbox
 * Authoring Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
 * Adobe Flash
 * Java applets
 * HTML5 & Javascript
 * Creating mobile apps
 * See the mobile learning page, for example: []
 * Also see App Inventor for Android: []
 * Creating Games or Simulations
 * [|GameMaker]
 * Search for 'game development' to find tons of books and sites.