Dust or Magic Institute

About this original series

Dust or Magic is an annual demonstration-intensive institute for individuals who need to understand the latest interactive media products for children. Because participants stay at the same Inn and come from a variety of perspectives, the event has a retreat feel to it. Time is put into the agenda so that there are opportunities to try out the latest products in both formal and informal settings. Dust or Magic Institutes' agenda is planned around the products, and videos of child testers using key products help ground the discussion. Throughout the session, there are presentations by developers, reviewers and researchers, and plenty of hands-on time for the participants to play with the latest products.

# Episodes
22 episodes
Rating
TV-G

Episodes of Dust or Magic Institute

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  Dust or Magic 2009 Demo: MeMoves
  
  Roberta Scherf and Chris Bye of Thinking Moves (www.thinkingmoves.com) demonstrate their latest release, called MeMoves, at Dust or Magic on November 3, 2009.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 26, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    03:24
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  Warren Buckleitner: Child Development 101 for So...
  
  An overview of child development theory, set in the cont at Dust or Magic 2009. The lecture took place on November 5, 2009 at Lambertville, NJ
  - Release date
    
    Jan 24, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    50:40
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  Alan Kay's Dynabook Dream
  
  Alan Kay describes his vision for a children's computer
  - Release date
    
    Jan 24, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    01:15
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  What's Next for SCRATCH? by Eric Rosenbaum
  
  Eric Rosenbaum is a PhD student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group headed by Mitchel Resnick at MIT Media Lab. His Master's thesis explored reflective learning in the Scratch programming environment for children. He has made software for painting with light, improvising with musical sounds, and creating interactive behaviors in 3D virtual worlds. He has also worked on augmented reality and molecular dynamics simulations for science education. He has degrees in psychology and in technology in e...
  - Release date
    
    Jan 20, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    13:13
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  Scott Traylor's 2009 Dust or Magic Presentation
  
  Scott Traylor is President and Founder of 360KID. In this session, he discussions the psychology of social knowledge, and ends with a real time laser pointer assessment technique in order to measure the growth of participant knowledge.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 19, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    19:48
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  Can you guess this history making electronic toy...
  
  JP Dyson of the Strong Museum of Play's National Museum for the History of Electronic Play demonstrates a historic toy at Dust or Magic 2009.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 10, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    05:21
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  How We Built an Empire, One Sim at a Time, by Je...
  
  In this 30 minute talk on Sunday night of Dust or Magic, Jeff Braun tells the Maxis story, from start to present day. Braun co-founded Maxis with Will Wright in 1988. Under Jeff's leadership as Chairman and CEO, Maxis became famous for its Sim branded video games including SimCity and The Sims.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 8, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    30:01
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  Caroline Hu Flexer: Turning a Nursery Rhyme into...
  
  The co-founder of Duck Duck Mouse demonstrates how a 2 year old child inspired some of the best selling children's apps. Don't miss the five tips at the end of the presentation.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 28, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    28:32
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  Clicktoy - The Meadow
  
  Ken Kavanagh, president of Clicktoy Interactive presents his 3D open virtual environment for children.http://www.clicktoy.com/
  - Release date
    
    Nov 6, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    06:45
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  Zimmer Twins
  
  Jason Krogh of zinc Roe, creator of Zimmer Twins. http://www.zimmertwins.com/
  - Release date
    
    Nov 6, 2008
  - Runtime
    
    07:43