Liebe Leser!

We go through fire, not to get burnt, but to get tougher!

Vor zwei Wochen habe ich am Vienna City Marathon 2011, über die Halbmarathon Distanz, teilgenommen. Ein unglaublicher Event und eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich mit euch hier teilen möchte.

Nach einer guten Vorbereitung…

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Wir haben uns mal ein (überraschenderweise) interessantes Produkt für die kommende Weihnachtszeit angesehen:

Den Adventskalender!

Interessanterweise ist dieser nicht mehr bloß ein Stück Karton mit kleinen Fenstern, sondern kann einiges mehr! Angefangen von Lego Adventskalendern, über Rätselraten mit den drei ???, bis zu einem Pilgrim Adventskalender im Wert von 300 Euro (der es nicht in unserer Top 10 geschafft hat) ist alles dabei! Viel Spass beim Wiederentdecken dieses neu erfundenen Produktes und unseren TOP 10! Da ist für jeden was dabei!

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Last week I wrote about the big new multiplayer game Monopoly City Streets created by Hasbro and Google, WHERE you can play Monopoly with the entire world on Google Maps – fascinating!

Like said, 1.7 Million Users registerd in one day and the system crashed, bugs happened, but overall the crowd was fascinated by the game and the chance to become the biggest worldwide!

It was decided to RELAUNCH the game today and just about some minutes ago the game restarted, with a clean google map and everyone got the chance again to play and buy their favorite street!

The game is fast now and I wasnt able to find any bugs yet. Seems clean! I hope, they were also able to undo the possibilities to cheat (multiple user accounts, …)!

As far as I am concerned, I got pretty lucky on my first day of Monopoly, today (which really only takes 5 minutes to play, ever day)!:

… of course I bought my home-street again and I got to buy a large street for a big chunk of my money, which I then was able to protect with a school building from enemy sabotage actions….

Lets see what happens, next!

(Click to play, yourself!)

Other useful links:

Monopoly City Streets Rules
Create your own Monopoly City Streets Signature Here is mine, from the first round of playing (after one week):

Have a nice weekend! Best,
Daniel

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Exhibit at MIT

Check out 5 min of our presentation of the Travelling Classroom Project in Boston:

Our Presentation can be found here: PPT. And here is the ALBUM of all our pictures:

Soon, the Travelling Classroom Project will be in AUSTRIA! Check back to find out when or even better, SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLOG! Thank you! Best, Daniel

Youtube Video of the Travelling Classroom Project in Boston:

A video of our exhibition at MIT will follow, this week!:

Yeah, you can FIND US at N52 (building next to the MIT Museum), on the 3rd floor, this week!

Have a nice weekend!

German Post:

http://ideas.redwired.org/DasReisendeKlassenzimmer

In recent times we have witnessed a real crisis in education reform:

In Austria, the US (Bill Gates speaking about Education in the USA) and in other parts of the world, the debate over tenure, incentive strategies, teacher evaluation, and public opinion has and continues to be a heated one.

The disparity between the images and perspectives portrayed in mass media and the silenced voices of teachers has led to a vicious cycle halting any real progress changing current policies.

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Our IDEA and Project at MIT:

Imagine you are sitting down at a bus-stop and you are waiting for the next bus. Suddenly, you hear the voice of a chemistry professor talking, then you hear Bill Gates speaking about the problems of education in the USA, then you hear the chemistry professor, again,…

Now you get curious and you look around: You see a piece of chalk lying on the bench, next to you and the voice is coming from underneath the bench.

The piece of chalk holds the following message:

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Deployment of chalks in America: Weeks of the 20th and 27th of April, 09

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Abstract for the MIT Project

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Let us know what you think! and maybe you would like to hand out some chalk! ;_)