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  Welcome to the Looking Glass Community

  By Jordana Kerr

  Welcome! Looking Glass is an interactive 3D programming environment for novice programmers in and around the middle school age. The Looking Glass Community is designed to support Looking Glass...

  • May 28, 2012
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  Exciting summer plans

  By Jordana Kerr

  We have several new team members who have joined us for the summer to help development several new Community features. These features include merit badges, the ability to follow other users and...

  • May 31, 2012
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  The planning phase

  By Jordana Kerr

  Developing new features always requires several iterations of planning and design sketches before anything comes into fruition. This week has been very design-heavy for the proposed "following"...

  • Jun 07, 2012
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  Actions and badges

  By Jordana Kerr

  Actions This afternoon, I have been tinkering with actions so that they are more informative, but also take up less real estate on the news feed. Currently, when someone shares a new world, a new...

  • Jun 21, 2012
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  Badge challenges

  By Jordana Kerr

  Badges Now that Reilly and Caitlin have designed a compelling new badge system, Reilly and I have begun setting up the badges on the site. We have carefully designed the code in a way to include...

  • Jul 12, 2012
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  Video Tutorials (A sneak peek!)

  By Jordana Kerr

  Here is a sneak peek at the video tutorial resources to come! Voice directions and captions will be added, and these videos will be adjusted and tailored a bit visually, but they're a good starting...

  • Jul 24, 2012
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  Video Tutorials

  By Jordana Kerr

  Here are video tutorials explaining how to get started, build a custom scene, and add animations to your story. This post will soon include remixing and sharing to the community. Soon, these...

  • Aug 04, 2012
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  Inspired Storytelling

  By Jordana Kerr

  I began testing video tutorials with the help of several of our finest REU students at the Science Center this week. We wanted to see whether or not hands-off, abstracted visual directions had any...

  • Aug 10, 2012
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  Navigation contemplation

  By Jordana Kerr

  Tags, searches, navigation bars, drop-down menus...all were heavily pored over and reconsidered this week. As the live site currently stands, there is no way to tag worlds or challenges, or search...

  • Sep 06, 2012
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  Navigation part 2

  By Jordana Kerr

  I'm really excited about the visual look and feel of the upcoming Looking Glass website. Using plenty of feedback from others in the lab, especially Kyle, I moved key aspects of the top navigation...

  • Sep 14, 2012
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