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Sorry for the delay, but now I'm back with updates on Virtual Peace!

A couple of weeks ago, we had an all-team meeting, which marked the mid-point for the development of the project. Now we've got only a little over a month to launch! While there are still many things to do, and many hurdles to overcome, the meeting made it clear that the technical aspects of the project are well under way. Of course, the most visually compelling part of the meeting was the presentation of avatar development by… Continue

Here's the av from Virtual Peace that I was promising a couple of weeks ago. I'll follow up with a longer post tomorrow about what's going on now -- some cool potential features for the game, ways of negotiating the game components (i.e. tangible scoring) and the simulation/abstract learning (i.e. non-scorable, intangible learning) components, etc.

These first couple of posts will be repeats of what went up on the HASTAC ning site. I'm moving the official blog for the Virtual Peace Project here to the DML site. I'll keep blogging on the HASTAC site as well, but it'll also be my personal blog.

As our website went live this week, I'm totally stoked to be able to start blogging about Virtual Conflict Resolution: Turning Swords to Ploughshares, one of the winners of this year's Digital Media and Learning Competition. See the website here. Als… Continue

Last week I posted about the launch of the Virtual Peace website. This week I wanted to add some information about what’s going on with the rest of the DML winning Virtual Conflict Resolution: Turning Swords to Ploughshares project.


Basically, we’re working in three different teams, coordinated by the visionary Tim Lenoir. Each team is keeping abreast of the advances made by the others through Ning message boards and updates from Tim and the other project leaders: Natalia Mirovitskaya, Kacie W… Continue