{"id":114,"date":"2006-03-12T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/12\/mediamoo\/"},"modified":"2006-03-12T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T15:28:38","slug":"mediamoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/12\/mediamoo\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaMOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Bruckman. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2006, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/~asb\/\">http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/~asb\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m supposed to be reading about MOOs but I&#8217;ve also been exploring them.  Right now, I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to board the elevator at MediaMOO.  I was able to get on the train.  I also ate some cheese and put on a costume in the women&#8217;s dressing room.  Very fun!!  However, I need to get a better handle on the verbs.  I&#8217;ve figured out look and read and I was able to push the button to get the elevator to come but couldn&#8217;t get on.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my main question: have people moved away from MOOs?  MediaMOO was celebrating its eighth birthday but that was in 2001.   Is it still active?  I don&#8217;t think I qualify to join since for now I am not doing research into media.  (Probably soon, though.)  But I wonder if these communities become too hard to maintain.  They take a lot of start up and attention.  And&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure there isn&#8217;t one presentation here at VSTE about MUDs or MOOs.  The focus this year seems to be on blogs and podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started reading about &#8220;constructionism&#8221;: &#8220;My research applies the &#8220;constructionist&#8221; philosophy of education to the design of online communities. Constructionism advocates learning through design and construction activities &#8212; learning through working on personally meaningful projects. &#8221; (Bruckman, n.d.).  This is obviously different from &#8220;constructivism&#8221; which has to do with constructing new knowledge based on a learner&#8217;s schema.  Since she&#8217;s from MIT, I&#8217;m assuming this goes along with Seymour Papert&#8217;s ideas about logo and lego.  What do we learn when we &#8220;make&#8221; things and what is the definition of &#8220;make&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Bruckman. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2006, from http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/~asb\/. I know I&#8217;m supposed to be reading about MOOs but I&#8217;ve also been exploring them. Right now, I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to board the elevator at MediaMOO. I was able to get on the train. I also ate some \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/12\/mediamoo\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s31UVs-mediamoo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}