Comm Tech Lab @ MSU

The Microbe Zoo WEB and CD-ROM

The Microbe Zoo invites young people to actively explore the hidden world of microbes through an appealing, fun interface. Rather than visit the "Lion House" or the "Monkey House," learners go to microbe habitats such as dirt, water, and inside of humans and animals. At the "Snack Shop," you can look at the microbes that live in snacks, rather than eating snacks.

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Carrie Heeter
Darcy Drew Greene
Brian Winn
Norm Lownds
Punya Mishra
Jim Anthony
Ethan Watrall

Current Team
CTL Alumni

Education
Wonderwalls
Fantastic Food Challenge
Spatial Garden Kids' Tour
Death Penalty High School Curriculum
4H-Children's Garden
Plant Problems
Mammalian Brain Collection
ASL Browser/Personal Communicator
Microbe Zoo
American Identity Explorer
Teaching with the Internet for K-12

Patient Information
Completing a Life
Easing Cancer Pain
Cancer Prevention Conversations
Breast Cancer Lighthouse

Current Projects
Girls as Game Designers
Longitudinal Survey Engine (LSE)
Digital Hierakonpolis Initiative
Alien Games
Electronic Quit Smoking Coach
Personal Science Assistant (PSA)
Cognitive Games
Chi. Historical Society Children's Gallery
Diabetes and You

Graduate Theses
In Progress
Completed

Heeter, C., Chu, K., Maniar, A., Mishra, P., and Egidio, R. Comparing 14 Forms of Fun In Commercial Versus Educational Space Exploration Digital Games, DIGRA, Netherlands, November, 2003.

Mishra, P., Spiro, R. J. & Feltovich, P. (1996) Technology, representation & cognition . In von Oostendorp, H. (Ed.) Cognitive aspects of electronic text processing. Ablex Publishing Corporation.

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