Did you ever think about enabling students to save their VizAbility projects in some sort of persistent form?
K: We did. We decided not to allow that as we wanted students to focus on the process, not product. The activity is not so much about the stories you create, but the process of imagination that went into making them. The Magic Theater is designed to encourage your confidence with your imagination. We wanted to capture the fluidity of the experience of imagining. What theoretical educational perspectives, if any, did you draw on in creating this product. K: Notions of constructivism are interwoven into these things. We do a lot with hands-on active learning. We were trying to teach a way of learning, and in so doing found that we incorporated many of the current cognitive models without calling them by their academic names. B: Our primary teacher was experience. Scott and Gail had taught this. We all ended up arguing a lot about how the product should behave. The fights ended up producing a product that solved a lot of problems. Have you thought about webifying VizAbility and what would
