MOO?

The first hurdle is the stupid name for a brilliant technology. Multi-user Object Oriented environment is as far as most people get before pre-judging these as just too much cognitive work to get into. Pity MOOs have come a long way and are an early example of a constructionist, constructivist world where users can collaborate in real time, chat and interact in all sorts of ways and most important, BUILD.

MOO web and chat interface

MOO web and chat interface

Modern MOOs are web-enabled, multi-media capable and my school runs one that the middle-school kids love to bits. This sounds like a grandiose claim, but when kids use these things during their holidays, by choice, you know you have struck a chord. Few schools have dabbled with MOOs, again, a pity. As an OOP programming place they are powerful game environments, are menu and command driven so suit many ages and abilities [from noob to expert] and are web lean [they exist on a dribble of data through a web and a telnet port]. Some things to explore

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