Social Resistance Training Game

Art & Logic worked with York Zimmerman to design and implement People Power, a cross-platform game that is intended to teach the principles of non-violent resistance to participants in social movements. Based on principles and a mathematical model that were derived from the Serbian overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, as well as study of other similar historical struggles, a graphically appealing game was designed that supports the modeling of conflict and resolution. more...

Art & Logic worked with York Zimmerman to design and implement People Power, a cross-platform game that is intended to teach the principles of non-violent resistance to participants in social movements. Based on principles and a mathematical model that were derived from the Serbian overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, as well as study of other similar historical struggles, a graphically appealing game was designed that supports the modeling of conflict and resolution. Art & Logic also built a Scenario Design tool. This component allows designers to build arbitrarily complex social models and resistance programs, for use within the game.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Flash  Flex  ActionScript  AIR  Media  Education  Games  Film

iLearning Online Interactive for Harcourt Interactive Technology (iloli™)

Art & Logic developed a suite of web applications that provides Harcourt's Reading and Math Assessment Tests to elementary school students across the country via the internet. The applications enable school superintendents to create Teacher accounts, who in turn can create Student accounts, create classroom groups, assign tests to students either as a group or as part of their individual development plans. Students log onto the system, take tests, and view test results instantaneously. Teachers and Supervisors can view reports to gauge how students are performing against state benchmarks. more...

Art & Logic developed a suite of web applications that provides Harcourt's Reading and Math Assessment Tests to elementary school students across the country via the internet. The applications enable school superintendents to create Teacher accounts, who in turn can create Student accounts, create classroom groups, assign tests to students either as a group or as part of their individual development plans. Students log onto the system, take tests, and view test results instantaneously. Teachers and Supervisors can view reports to gauge how students are performing against state benchmarks. A separate offline application was developed for importing XML content into the backend database. iloli™ applications have delivered millions of online assessments to hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school students in the United States. The iloli framework implements Harcourt's HSPOA and READS product lines. Following the completion of the original application for Harcourt Interactive Technology (HIT), the Harcourt Education and Measurement (HEM) group hired Art & Logic to modify the original application for use with their testing products. Unlike HSPOA and READS, which are assessment practice tools, the SDRT/SDMT product is a "high stakes" test administered to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  Java  XML  Oracle  WebObjects  Publishing  Education

A Simple App Solves A Big Problem

Researchers who present posters at scientific or medical symposia often have to create hundreds of scaled-down, hard-to-read printouts of their poster for handing out at the session. Dark Scorpion's Poster Commander is a less expensive and "green" alternative to poster handouts, and allows a researcher to transmit, using the iPhone's Bluetooth capability, an electronic file (PDF) of the poster from his or her iPhone to the iPhones of attendees who also have this app. Through the "Statistics" screen, poster presenters can keep track of how many times each poster is downloaded and, if selected, the contact information of the person who downloaded the application.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Peer-to-peer  GameCenter  Education  Medical  Science  Research  Content Distribution

Stanford Reading and Math Assessments

In 2008 Pearson completed the purchase of Harcourt Assessment from Reed Elsevier. As part of the purchase, Pearson acquired the SDRT/SDMT application, one of the iloli™ application that Art & Logic built for Harcourt, Inc. A&L continues to support the applications for Pearson, providing system enhancements and low-level data analysis services.

TAGS:  Web  Java  Oracle  WebObjects  Publishing  Education

Flash-based Guide for Online Assessments

Harcourt Assessment, then a division of Harcourt Inc., hired Art & Logic to build a "How To" guide to supplement their Stanford 10 Online product.

TAGS:  Web  Flash  Publishing  Education

Music in Education™ for Yamaha

"The philosophy of the Music In Education program is singular in purpose: to create a classroom music program that provides a contemporary focus to the musical and curricular traditions of the general music classroom." Art & Logic was hired by Yamaha to port the Windows version of Music in Education™ to a native Cocoa application for Mac OS X. The MIE system includes 16 MIE keyboards linked with MIDI to the MIE software running on a G4 Macintosh computer. The software provides a hands-on learning experience for students while freeing the instructor to move among the students while accessing accompaniments and music samples via a wireless remote control system.

TAGS:  Objective-C  Cocoa  Mac OS X  Audio  Xcode  MIDI  Music  Education

Playing With Positive Words

p i c t u r e l e s s Books is a children's e-book series by co-authors Teffanie T. White and Adrea L. Peters. Art & Logic was hired to bring the simple, card-based word books to the iOS platform. The app inspires vocabularies that uplift, surprise, and teach using positive words. Users can play with spelling, anagrams, and acronyms. They can send cards to others, post words to friends' facebook pages, or shuffle and shake the alphabet deck for random, delightful letter/word combinations.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Publishing  Education  Children

MedCollege Website for Victory Technology

Emergency medical professionals around the world used MedCollege to meet their strict training requirements. MedCollege provided an online interactive implementation of emergency medical training courses, quizzes, case studies, dictionary, and bookstore. Emergency Medical Technicians could use MedCollege to receive accredited continuing education credit in order to maintain or to receive certification.

TAGS:  Web  Java  Oracle  WebObjects  Education  Medical

Education and Communication Apps

Art & Logic wrote a collection of engaging iOS apps for use by educators, speech-language pathologists and parents. The apps are built around Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson's library of thousands of PCS (Picture Communication Symbol) images, with high fidelity audio recordings of each word and phrase. Art & Logic drew on its expertise in mobile development to build each app as an exciting, interactive game or activity to help make learning fun for young children or individuals with speech and language challenges.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Audio  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Gaming  Games  PDF  MP3  Graphic design  Publishing  Education