I designed the "TIC and Java Adventure" for the express purpose of giving my students in The Internet Classroom a fun activity for their July 4th make-up session. The instructor for Java elected to have his students participate as well, so it became a joint venture between the two classes. Students were split into groups of four to five and one TA who would gently guide groups along if they were stuck. Every group was given a laptop with a wireless connection as they progressed through the game, allowing them to find the next clue quickly without needing to return to the computer lab.Over the entire adventure, students visit/use: e-mail, Blogspot, YouTube, Photoshop, TinyURL, any audio player, PHP forums, SendUIt, any program capable of opening password-locked zip files, and they are made to step through an extremely simple Java for loop. Answers to various puzzles are found in four different on-campus locations. I made six different pages and/or sites (including fake e-mail clients and a fake image hosting site) for students to "hack" into and registered four different (free!) subdomains in order to make these all look like they were owned by different people.
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- alternate reality