Live Interactive Communication- MUDs
There are a variety of formats and purposes for bringing multiple people
together online simultaneously. One genre of this concept goes by the names
of MUD's, MOO's, MUSH, MUSE, MUCK and more. These started as text only
display games of the Dungeons and Dragons variety, but with the advent
of Mosaic like tools, images and sounds will become a regular part of these
environments. Further, the design concept is now being exploited for a
wide variety of purposes beyond gaming. Educators using collaborative learning
concepts will find a number of worthwhile parallels. For problem solving,
the MUD genre will play an increasingly important role in looking for information
and assessing work in progress. As you will see in your browsing, perhaps
one of the more fundamental problems will be building a collection of "cleaner
MUD" for K-12 use. Send me any such K-12 candidates that you run across
that I could list here.
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