Magnus Moar
Acting Programme Leader: BA Film, Video and Interactive Arts
Department: School of Arts and Education
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 6674
- E-mail: M.Moar@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
Bsc, Msc, PhD
Research Interests
- Constructionism and Vygotskian approaches to learning and play.
- Children's use of new media, particularly the creation of computer based 3D models and sounds.
- Non-conventional interfaces, locative applications.
Teaching Interests
Programming and designing interactive applications.
Biography
Positions
- Acting Programme Leader: BA Film, Video and Interactive Arts
- Senior Lecturer: Design for Interactive Media
Current Work
- Teaching on MA Design for Interactive Media, MA Electronic Arts, BA Film, Video and Interactive Arts, BA Games Design.
- Programme leader, BA Games Design.
- External Examiner for: BA Interactive Media Production at: Bournemouth University, BA Games Design at Suffolk University College, BA Digital Media at Canterbury Christ Church University.
- Lansdown Research Committee member.
Publications
Selected bibliography:
- Bailey, F. & Moar, M. (2002). The Vertex Project: Exploring the Creative Use of Shared 3D Virtual Worlds in the Primary (K-12) Classroom. Paper presented at SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio. Published in ACM SIGGRAPH: 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications, p52-54.
- Bailey, F. & Moar, M. (2003). The VERTEX Project: designing and populating shared 3D virtual worlds in the primary (elementary) classroom. Special Edition of Computers and Graphics. Vol.27:3, p353 : 359.
- Moar, M. & Bailey, F. (2000) 'Children's Creation of Shared 3D Worlds'. Paper presented at Digital Content Creation Conference, Bradford, April 2000.
- Moar, M. & Bailey, F. (2001). 'Children's Creation of Shared 3D Worlds' in Vince J and Earnshaw R (Eds), "Digital Content Creation", London, Springer-Verlag. (ISBN 1-85233-379-0)
