How fun is this?!
The latest adventure from Interrobang is
Mission: Use Microsoft WorldWide Telescope to create a tour of your favorite spots in space. Explain why they are your favorites. Ask each viewer to add a new destination to the tour.
Interrobang is a great concept - a fully realised feral learning site! Participants can choose from existing challenges, or create and share their own, challenging others to join in as well. The framework provided allows for collaboration in teams as well as individual enquiry, and provides a framework of language and acknowledgements to make participation transparent to other site users.It's obviously targetted at school students, and is developed in a way that enables activity on Interrobang to merge in to school-based study.
When is a problem not a problem?
When it's a game!
InterroBang?! is a game where you get to have fun with problems. Students complete real-world missions with deeds that can win prizes, improve problem solving skills, and connect them with others to do things that just might change the world.
Those who remember the success of the Carmen Sandiego games ( a lifetime ago now!) will have no trouble at all recognising the concept and the appeal. Interrobang takes the concept of self-directed enquiry learning and moves it "into the cloud" - with space for participants to interact, compare results, and develop their own social hierarchy through a system of mission badges and forums.
Gotta love it!!!
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