QuickTime Movie Page

These are QuickTime movies recorded by Catalina Laserna.

MicroMuse and Communitas is a guest lecture by Barry Kort, delivered March 11, 2002, to a joint session of Catalina's class at Harvard on Educational Technology and David Albert's course on Virtual Communities. In this talk, Barry reviews the origins and history of MicroMuse, its contributions to educational technology, and his "Communitas Model" for building online communities.

Emotions and Learning is a guest lecture by Barry Kort, delivered March 18, 2002, to Catalina's class at Harvard on Educational Technology. In this talk, Barry presents the Theory of Emotions and Learning featuring a guest appearance by Montana Mouse.

Muse at RosaParks School is a video recorded in March 1994 by Catalina Laserna showing a group of sixth graders at the RosaParks School in Cambridge MA learning to use the Muse. The session is led by the teacher, Toby Kaplan, and an 8th grade student, Lucia Somberg.

To view the above movies, you should use the QuickTime Player or QuickTime Browser PlugIn. These are very long movies -- more than an hour each, with file sizes exceeding 100 MB. Therefore you want to be sure your QuickTime Player or QuickTime Browser PlugIn can stream them rather than save them to disk.