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Learning Technologies Classes

2006 - 2007 School Year Class Projects
October

Game Pad!
In this class, students designed and programmed their own computer games using Scratch software and "game pads" for playing the games.

Introduction to Web Animation (Ages 13 - 16)
Check out the animations we made in this introductory Flash class!

2006 Summer Projects
June

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Kristen and Jake

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught By Keith and Heather

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by: Chris and Mardis

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Sabrina and Kate

Monsters and More Animation Workshop (Ages 6 - 8)
make animations of Monsters and More! Taught by Jake and Maddy

Monsters and More Animation Workshop
Come look at what we made!

Fantasy Maps (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught By:Roger and Will

Introduction to 3D Design (Ages 13 - 16)
Come look at the movies we made! Taught by:Chris and Jake

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught By:Karen and Kate

June 26-30 Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught By:Kent and Cindee

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by: Kent and Mardis

Digital Flix
Take a look at our films! Teachers Kim and Maddie.

Digital Flix (Ages 9 - 12)
Come check out the movies that we made! Taught by: Chris and Heather

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Megan and Mardis

July

Movie Magic Camp (Ages 9 - 14)
Check out the movies we made! Teachers: Heather and Maddy

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Megan and Mardis

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Kristen and Kim

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Come look at the games we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by: Kate and Kim

Digital Flix
Welcome to the digital cinema! Kate and Kim instructors

Virtual Genie
Using an experimental software being developed by the MIT Media Lab, our class focused on the exploration of new ideas and skills (programming and engineering) through a mixture of science, technology and creativity.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Come check out the games we made! Taught by: Heather and Audrey

Introduction to 3D Design (Ages 13 - 16)
Come look at the movies we made! Taught by:Chris and Megan

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Come check out the games we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by: Sabrina and Mardis

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Heather and Audrey

MicroWorlds Pixel Paleontology (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds. Taught by Karen and Kate

Game Pad
Game Pad! Make your own game controller for a computer game. Bryan and Keith, teachers.

Introduction to 3D Design (Ages 13 - 16)
Check out our 3D illustrations using Blender software! Teachers: Maddy and Heather

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Come check out the games we made! Taught by: Chris and Kent

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Come play our games that we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by: Kate and Kent

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Check out our games! Teachers: Audrey and Karen

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Come check out the games we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by: Cindee and Keith

August

Light Art
Explore all kinds of ways to make art with light. Dazzle your mind as well as your eyes! Taught by Kristen

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Come check out our games we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by: Chris and Audrey

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Come check out our games we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by: Karen and Heather

Music Machines and Creative Composing
Build your own musical machine using a motors, sensors, and found materials. Taught by Kristen and Heather

Amusement Arcade Camp (Ages 9 - 12)
Check out the games we made! Teachers: Chris and Kim

Technology Tasters (Ages 6 - 8)
Check out the stop motion animation movies we made using Intel Cameras and software! Teachers: Sabrina and Audrey

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Come check out the games we made using MicroWorlds! Taught by Keith and H]eather

2005 - 2006 School Year Class Projects
May

Advanced Design a Computer Game
Make your own computer game using Scratch.

2005 Summer Projects
June

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
See what we did in our June 13th computer game class using Microworlds.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Monsters and More Animation Workshop (Ages 6 - 8)
make animations of Monsters and More!

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Movie Magic Camp (Ages 9 - 12)
Digital movies edited with Imovie. Taught by Chris and Angela

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Design A Computer Game - classroom 7 with Roger & Craig

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds - teachers: Karen and Mardis.

Simulations and Artificial Life (Ages 13 - 16)
Simulations of life systems in Microworlds!

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
The students in the class used a program called Microworlds to create their own adventure computer games.

July

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Stufent in the class used a program called Microworlds to create their own adventure computer games.

Introduction to 3D Design (Ages 9 - 12)
Model, texture, light, and render a complete 3D scene.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Students in the class used a program called Microworlds to create their own adventure computer games.

Camp Contraptions (Ages 8 - 12)
Build a chain reaction contraption.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
We made our own computer games. We learned to program in Logo!

MicroWorlds Fantasy Maps (Ages 9 - 12)
Make a quest through our fantasy maps and stories.

Robotics Lab (Ages 9 - 12)
Build an animatronic puppet.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game 7/25 - 7/30 (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
We used Logo programming language and Microworlds software to create Computer Games, Keith and Roger were the instructors.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Designed computer games with Microworlds - PM class - Megan and Craig

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Bryan and Mardis taught the students to use a program called Microworlds to create their own adventure computer games.

Digital Flix (Ages 9 - 12)
Check out the movies we made.

Introduction to Web Animation (Ages 13 - 16)
In this class we designed flash animations.

August

Introduction to 3D Design (Ages 13 - 16)
3D computer models! Nifty!

Introduction to Web Animation (Ages 13 - 16)
Check out the animations we created! Teachers: Chris and Craig

Amusement Arcade Camp (Ages 8 - 12)
Make a video game on the computer.

Introduction to 3D Design (Ages 13 - 16)
Check out the 3D models we made!

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Students continued learning Logo programming language - using previously learned and new commands to make computer games.

Virtual Genie
Draw and program your own personal Muse.

3D Animation II (Ages 13 - 0)
In this class, students worked on individual 3D animation scenes that were combined into one movie. The only rule? The beachball has to enter and leave the screen.

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 13 - 16)
We developed our MicroWorlds game making skills even more in this class.

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Check out these cool games we created in MicroWorlds.

2004 - 2005 School Year Class Projects
October

Create Your Own Collections Gallery (Ages 9 - 12)
Take a look at our collections of thing from home and things from the Science Museum.

Musical MicroWorlds (Ages 9 - 12)
Look at the music videos we made in MicroWorlds, with music and animations we composed.

April

Saint Paul Connections (Ages 14 - 18)
Students from St. Paul area high schools spent four days creating their own computer games using the Microworlds programming environment.

Robotic Wind Sculptures (Ages 9 - 12)
Check out our robotic wind sculptures!

2004 Summer Projects
June

Design a Computer Game: Ancient Mysteries (Ages 13 - 16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Ancient Mysteries (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Monsters and More Animation Workshop (Ages 6 - 8)
We learned about animation and created our own stop motion movies.

Simulations and Artificial Life (Ages 13 - 16)
Create your own world inside a computer. Explore the history of the artificial life concept, and build your own computer "lifeforms". Program changes to their environment to perform experiments on your new cyber world

MicroWorlds Fantasy Maps (Ages 9 - 12)
Make a quest through our fantasy maps and stories.

Design a Computer Game: Cyborgs (Ages 13 - 16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Cyborgs (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Digital Flix (Ages 9 - 12)
Watch the digital movies and stop motion animations we created.

Amusement Arcade Camp (Ages 9 - 13)
As part of this camp, we used MicroWorlds software to make computer games. Try them out!

"Turtle" Island: Logo Art, Stories and Games (Ages 9 - 12)
We used Microworlds and Logo programming to make digital art, mazes and animated stories.

Digital Flix (Ages 9 - 12)
Watch the digital movies and stop motion animations we created.

Digital Flix (Ages 9 - 12)
Watch the digital movies and stop motion animations we created.

Digital Movie Making! (Ages 13 - 16)
Watch the movies that we wrote, filmed, directed, edited and acted in.

July

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the cool adventure games we made using Microworlds software!!

Movie Magic Camp (Ages 9 - 13)
Watch the movies we created.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 13)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 9 - 13)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Amusement Arcade Camp (Ages 9 - 13)
Try out the cool arcade games we made using Microworlds!!

Introduction to 3D Animation (Ages 13 - 16)
View images and movies, and download project files created in this class.

Introduction to Web Animation (Ages 13 - 16)
Watch the animations we created for the web using Flash.

Design a Computer Game: Create Your Own Adventure Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

August

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 13 - 16)
Check out the AWESOME games we made!

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Look at our computer games, made with MicroWorlds.

Mindstorms and Sensors (Ages 9 - 12)
Use Lego RCX bricks and recycled materials to build and program a vehical, an obstical course, and a robotic chain reaction contraption.

3D Animation II (Ages 13 - 16)
Advanced 3D model making and animation class.

Advanced Design a Computer Game (Ages 9 - 12)
Try out the computer games we made with MicroWorlds.

2003 - 2004 School Year Class Projects
January

Create a Computer Pet (Ages 9 - 12)
Look at the virtual pets we made in MicroWorlds.

Web Animation Basics (Ages 9 - 12)
We painted a series of pictures and strung them together into simple animated gifs.

St. Paul Connections - Digital Stop Motion Animation
Watch our stop motion animated movies.

February

Refrigerator Animation
Watch our animated movies, starring magnetic characters and shapes.

Saint Paul Connection's Design Your Own Computer Game (Ages 13 - 18)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

2003 Summer Projects
June

Design a Computer Game: Adventure Game (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Intro to 3D (13-16)
Model, texture, light, and render a complete 3D scene.

Design a Computer Game: Ancient Mysteries morning (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Ancient Mysteries afternoon (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Ancient Mysteries (13-16), June 16
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Movie Magic Camp
We made short films about aliens, bananas, and even The Hulk.

Design a Computer Game: Ancient Mysteries (13-16), June 23
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Adventure Game (13-16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

July

Animated Creations (13-16)
Watch clay come to life in or stop-motion animations and see our animated faces.

GirlPower 2003
Look at our stories, drawings and reviews on the web pages that we made.

Design a Computer Game: Acrobats and Cannonballs 1 (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Acrobats and Cannonballs 2 (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Intro to Web Animations (13-16)
Check out the student built animation webpages.

3D Design Camp (9-13)
We made 3D models of rooms and furniture on the computer.

Simulations and Artificial Life
After learning about Go, the Game of Life and ant colonies, we thought about artificial life and made our own simulations in MicroWorlds.

Dragonstooth Lodge Camp (9-13)
We made Wizard Mazes and Riddlers in MicroWorlds.

Advanced Design a Computer Game (9-12)
We developed our MicroWorlds game making skills even more in this class.

August

Digital Flix 1
Watch the digital movies and stop motion animations we created.

Advanced Design a Computer Game (13-16)
We developed our MicroWorlds game making skills even more in this class.

Turtle Island: Logo Art, Stories and Games
We used Microworlds and Logo programming to make digital art, mazes and animated stories.

Camp Contraptions
We made a chain reaction contraption out of recycled materials, legos, motors and Mindstorm bricks.

Digital Flix 2
Watch the digital movies and stop motion animations we created.

Write Your Own Digital Adventure Story
We wrote, illustrated and animated stories that let you make decisions about what happens next.

2002 - 2003 School Year Class Projects
October

3D Game (13-16), October, 2002
Build a playable 3D maze using Blender

Crash, Boom, Bang! Sound FX (9-12), October, 2002
We recorded our own sound effects using found materials and incorporated them into Microworlds Projects

Amazing Animations (9-12), November, 2002
We experimented with stop-motion animation and made our own short movies.

February

Create a Computer Pet (9-12), February 2003
Look at our animated creatures that we made in MicroWorlds.

Web Animation Basics (9-12), March 8th, 2003
We painted a series of pictures and strung them together into simple animated gifs.

April

Create a Computer Detective Game (9-12), April 2003
Play our detective games, and try to collect clues to solve the mystery!

2002 Summer Projects
June

Design a Computer Game: Adventure Game (13-16)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Mindstorms and Sensors
We made an obstacle course and a chain reaction.

Intro to 3D Design
We created 3D images using Blender.

Design a Computer Game: Adventure Game (9-12), Section 1
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Design a Computer Game: Adventure Game (9-12), Section 2
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Monsters and More Animation Workshop
We learned about animation and created our own stop motion movies.

Artificial Life Simulations; Zooland, July 2002
After learning about and playing Go and the Game of Life, we thought about artificial life and made simulations in MicroWorlds.

July

Design a Computer Game: Space Station (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds.

Turtle Island: Logo Art, Stories and Games
We used Microworlds and Logo programming to make digital art, mazes and animated stories.

Behave Yourself, Mindstorm!
We talked about artificial life and behavior, and made robots that reacted to their environment and expressed emotions.

Intro to 3D Design
We created 3D images using Blender.

GirlPower 2002
We created web pages with our stories and pictures, and put them together in this class web site.

August

Design a Computer Game: Magic and Illusions (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds and Logo programming.

Digital Flix
Watch the stop motion animations and digital movies that we created.

Design a Computer Game: Space Station (9-12)
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds and Logo programming.

3D Basics
In this introductory class we learned about the basics of 3d modeling with Blender and set out to design a physical object from the real world on the computer.

Mindstorms and Sensors
We made an obstacle course and a chain reaction using Mindstorms, legos, and recycled materials.

Design a Computer Game: Magic and Illusion (13-16), Section 1
Try out the computer games we made using the LOGO programming environment called MicroWorlds (requires a plug-in).

Digital Illusions (9-12)
We explored the world of optical illusions and used computers to make some of our own.

Design a Computer Game: Magic and Illusion (13-16), Section 2
Try out the computer games we made using MicroWorlds and Logo programming.

Write Your Own Digital Adventure Story
We wrote, illustrated and animated stories that let you make decisions about what happens next!

2001 Summer Projects
June

Digital Flix
Watch the digital movies that we filmed and edited.

Artificial Life Simulations; Zooland, July 2001
After learning about Go and the Game of Life, we thought about artificial life and made simulations in MicroWorlds.

August

GirlPower 2001
Look at our stories, drawings and reviews on the web pages that we made.

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