Check some of them out and blog about your impressions.

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Here are links to tutorials for the software you might be using:

Windows Movie Maker (comes free on all Windows machines).

Another free download you might want to try is Photo Story 3 for Windows.

On the Macbooks, there is iMovie 08.

Lastly here is a site with links to all kinds of information about digital storytelling.

• Conversations
  • New stuff about asking, telling, and showing a character something.
• Vehicles
  • Several new vehicle examples such as riding a horse, flying on a broom, and limiting where you can drive a vehicle.

1. Email me (and Steve) the text of your source code plus your released work by the end of the day. (I’ll explain how to do this during Monday’s class.)
2. Also make sure you have posted your story and your plot on your blog too.
3. If you are stuck on something, make sure you explain what it is you are trying to do so we can assist you in finding a solution.

Remember we don’t expect a finished piece but, at the least, your map, pathways, room descriptions, objects, etc.

Washington, October 12 (ANI): San Francisco-based firm Posit Science has developed a set of five video games, together called InSight, to improve the mental acuity of older drivers.

Insurance provider Allstate sent the games to 100,000 drivers aged 50 to 75 in Pennsylvania last week, hoping that the pilot program will turn older drivers into safer drivers.

“We expect to see that the group using the software will have a lower frequency of crashes verses the group that didn”t use the software,” Discovery News quoted Tom Warden of Allstate as saying.

Previously, Japanese game maker Nintendo had come up with games designed to reverse certain effects of aging. But since they were never scientifically proven to work, Nintendo stopped making brain-training games.

Allstate and Posit claim that they have science on their side.

They insist that 10 hours of game play turns the clock back 10 years in terms of memory, useful field of view, processing visual information, and general cognitive functions.

We’re giving away around $5 million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs.

If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information, we’d like to see it! You have the opportunity to win funding for your project and support within a vibrant community of media, tech, and community-oriented people who want to improve the world.