Twelve Ball State students created the game to help teach children about ecosystems and their care.

Landscape architecture major Francesca Louise Hernandez and her professor, Martha Hunt, talk about this unique immersive learning experience in the following video:

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• Read the transcript

Each semester, in lieu of taking regular classes, a group of students working with a faculty mentor explore connections among the arts, humanities, science and technology. Their goal is to create a product that demonstrates their collaborative effort and interdisciplinary study.

In the example highlighted here, English, computer science, biology, landscape architecture, and telecommunications majors created a video game that is being marketed to real-world publishing firms.

In Perspective
Get different perspectives about how students are benefiting from this experience:

• Student's view
• Professor's view

• June 2007: Voice and Vision
• May 2007: Digital Entertainment
• April 2007: Disaster Planning
• March 2007: Navigating Nature
• Feb. 2007: Streams
• Jan. 2007: Intermedia Arts and Animation
• Dec. 2006: Urban Semester Program
• Nov. 2006: NewsLink Indiana