This paper highlights the diverse possibilities in the rich community of educators from the Conceptual Learning of Science (CoLoS) and Open Source Physics (OSP) movement to engage, enable and empower educators and students, to create interactive digital media through computer modeling. This concept revolves around a paradigmatic shift towards participatory learning through immersive computer modeling, as opposed to using technology for information transmission. We aim to engage high school educators to professionally develop themselves by creating and customizing simulations possible through Easy Java Simulation (Ejs) and its learning community. Ejs allows educators to be designers of learning environments through modifying source codes of the simulation. Educators can conduct lessons with students’ using these interactive digital simulations and rapidly enhance the simulation through changing the source codes personally. Ejs toolkit, its library of simulations and growing community contributed simulation codes, in a Web 2.0 environment, potentially allows for rapid proliferation of mass customized virtual laboratories simulation with educators as designers of learning environment. Our journey of remixing this simulation created an educator-customized interactive digital media virtual laboratory for advancing learning physics by inquiry. The process of creating a simulation also has desirable pedagogical value that will be challenging to bring to high school students to learn by modeling. The impediments to using this method are discussed.

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