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Refereed Paper with Presentation

**Into the Twilight Zone: Innovations for Education, Virtual Worlds and Emerging Media**
Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, calongne@pcisys.net Leonard T. Bisson, Jr., Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, lbisson@gmail.com Quiana Bradshaw, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, bradshawq@gmail.com Paul Derby, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, pd@dcsnm.com Ricky L. Keeling, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, rlkeeling@yahoo.com Edward D Lavieri Jr., Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, ed@three19.com Erven F. McGinnes III, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, ervmcg@tconl.com Mark Shaffer, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, SpaceTazM@gmail.com Paul Tomaso, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, pandejt@gmail.com

Constructivist learning activities offer excellent opportunities for students to dream and create the future. In a creativity exercise, an emerging media class used online collaborative tools to share their visions of the future, and explored what it would take to realize their dreams. The featured topics span augmented reality, innovations in Web technology, a virtual world education grid, game-based educational simulations, artificial intelligence in knowledge management, research in holographic displays and 3D graphics programming education.

All Audience innovation education virtualworlds emergingmedia