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2 Towards Educational Memes
The present contribution deals with meme media technology, in general, for the
purpose of computer supported education or, as some briefly put it, e-learning.
Webble technology is of a particular interest, where the question for the under-
lying technological basis-be it Silverlight, HTML 5, or whatsoever-is left open.
The crucial requirement is to have Webbles which allow for direct execution as
introduced and exemplified in [9].
The driving motivation of the present work is an attempt to exploit the po-
tential of memetics `alaDawkinswithacertainfocus on educational memes.
Some way in which educational ideas or memes, so to speak, may be represented
and encapsulated digitally is discussed in [12]. The key idea is that, anyway,
didactic design needs some representation, preferably in a certain digital format.
The technology of choice is storyboarding introduced by Jantke & Knauf in [15].
Storyboarding is the process of systematical, tool-supported anticipation of the
human learners' relevant experiences. The technology allows for an incremental
design process in which top-down and bottom-up development may be dove-
tailed according to the designers needs and, possibly, in dependence on other
parties' contributions. The resulting storyboards may be represented in XML
format. There is no need for any storyboard implementation-known to be an
error-prone process like any other implementation of high level specifications-if
there is a way of computational interpretation of storyboards as demonstrated
in [6].
Conceptually, storyboards are hierarchically structured graphs adopted and
adapted from dynamic planning (see [3] for one of the sources of inspiration).
Fig. 1. Cutout of some storyboard for the game Shadows of Destiny (Konami, 2001)
The sample storyboard on display in figure 1 shows some very small part of a
high level storyboard. The nodes are composite and may be refined by sub-graph
replacements to specify their respective meanings in more detail as exemplified.
 
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