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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine??? is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. If I was going, I wouldn't miss this panel. Check this out.

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Jumping into Art in Second Life

Museum 2.0

It's a machinima (video) by Robbie Dingo, a 3D recreation of Van Gogh's Starry Night. The result is one solution to the "problem" of viewing 2D art--that it's hard to figure out how to focus and be attentive to the piece if you don't have a strong art background. As one YouTube visitor commented: A masterpiece recreated.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community. By pitting a pair of two player teams together in a series of quiz questions to determine their “societal worth”, Wiscombe created game rules that potentially, and intentionally, “break” the game.

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