July 2008 Archives

Sneak Peek: Katie Salen @ Institute of Play

NML resident cinematographer Talieh Rohani has been busy this summer with several shoots for the Learning Library. Now we're working to create videos that will function as introductions to our learning challenges, each of which focuses on one of the new media literacy skills. Here's the beginning of a short video that I'm editing featuring Katie Salen, an assistant professor at the Parsons School of Design in the Design and Technology Program and the executive director of The Institute of Play. Once completed, this and other sequences will be used in Learning Library challenges that explore play as the capacity to experiment with your surroundings as a form of problem solving.

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NML to host innovative Theater Performance 8/8/08

Moby-Dick: Then and Now tells two interlocking tales. The action takes place on the upper deck of a whaling ship and the lower deck of a subway. As in Melville's novel, the search for Moby-Dick promises salvation to the characters but leads them to disaster. In the modern story however, a supportive community ultimately tries to save the wounded hero and restore equilibrium, unity, and hope.