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The work of Carnegie Mellon U's Entertainment Technology Center has been all over the news. The June 24 Chronicle of Higher Education, highlighted Hazmat Hotzone, a video simulation of hazardous materials incidents for emergency responders to practice their skills. This combines entertainment and training elements, thereby supplimenting live drills, click here for more info.

Last week, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette drew attention to "Ben Franklin's Ghost," a projection which answers questions in a 'synthetic interview. ' This tool is quite cool, as a number of us have interacted w/Valerie, an earlier form of this technology which serves as the Newell Simon Hall receptionist. Great to see this expanded application! Hope our kids can chat w/Ben sometime. A helpful tool to work alongside the direction we set for our family's learning community :-)