SGER: Quest Atlantis Project

这个项目将利用先进的技术和策略证明成功的在线角色扮演游戏，以激发令人兴奋的机会，为儿童在放学后的背景。几乎没有任何学习环境的例子是建立在3D在线角色扮演游戏的商业成功的教训和策略之上的，这些游戏每天都有成千上万的用户。利用3D技术和原则，为游戏社区开发具有教育意义的环境是一个主题，我们作为一个教育社区，这项工作是探索性的，具有令人兴奋的潜力，无论是在其直接服务于当地男孩和女孩俱乐部的弱势儿童，还是在更广泛的研究影响方面，以告知教育界。我们与Boys and Girls Clubs的合作关系已经持续了18个月，目前合作关系非常密切，最近康柏和微软向当地Boys and Girls Clubs的技术中心捐赠了10万美元的设备、软件和服务。探索亚特兰蒂斯计划被视为一个令人兴奋的机会，将计算机集成到俱乐部编程中，工作人员和空间将致力于该项目。继续保持这种关系，利用这一仍然是新的技术和目前的兴趣，在创新与这种设备和软件创造了一个及时的机会。

This project will take advantage of advanced technologies andstrategies proven successful in online role-playing games to createexciting opportunities for children in an after school context. There arealmost no examples of learning environments that build on lessons andstrategies from the commercial success of 3D online, role-playing games,environments that are populated by tens of thousands of users each day.Leveraging 3-D technologies and principles so successful for the gamingcommunity to develop educationally meaningful environments is a topic ofwhich we, as an educational community, know very little and which has muchpotential to engage typically underrepresented groups in SMT learning.This work is exploratory and has exciting potential both in terms of itsdirect service to the disadvantaged children at the local Boys and GirlsClubs and in terms of the broader implications of the research to informthe education community. Our 18 month relationship with the Boys and Girls Clubs is currentlystrong and recently Compaq and Microsoft donated $100,000 in equipment,software, and service to both local Boys and Girls Clubs to createTechnology Centers. The Quest Atlantis program is viewed as an excitingopportunity to integrate the computers in Club programming, and staff, andspace will be committed to the project. Continuing this relationship andleveraging this still-new technology and the current interest ininnovating with this equipment and software creates a timely opportunity.