Archief November 2010

6 Degrees in the Trees (working title)

week47_introThe world is threatened by  global warming. Your task is to get the seed for a new kind of tree that will help change this (“save the world”)” to a safe place where it can grow and spread. The quest will take place in a forest where it is your knowledge of what lives and grows there and how they are connected that will move you towards your goal. You must do this in 6 steps or less by using the principles of 6 degrees of separation. The winner is the one who gets the seed safely to the destination first.
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Let the Game Begin

forest-for-trees04As my fellow students know, we have an assignment to complete before the Christmas break: design and pitch a game. When I talked to our course leader Jim Thompson last week he suggested I set up a couple of, what the British apparently call, “Aunt Sallys”. I may have the name wrong but my understanding is: “Aunt Sallys” are ideas that one can freely explore and shoot down, to be used as a first step in getting the idea train rolling. All the ideas below are brief and incomplete but a beginning, so shoot away.
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