In 1994, Time Magazine named the “Internet” the person of the year. In that same year, Sony released the Playstation One in Japan and the next year in the United States and Europe. If you were born in 1994, you have grown up with the Internet, video games and the cell phone. To you, these […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This semester as part of a larger class project where students are required to respond to an e-learning Request for Proposal (RFP), my students are going to need to create some spaces and areas in Second Life. To faciliate this process, I have created wiki (at the suggestion of Barton)to provide information and to answer […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →My post this week at the TrainingDay blog is titled Developing an Online Case Study Too many times, the technology takes over when developing an online case study or a branching story. Really, what needs to occur is a careful focus on the design to ensure that regardless of the actions of the learner (right […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Mnemonics are word tricks to help enrich and encode information to be memorized and then help to maximize recall. A mnemonic is when a meaningful word is created from the first letter of each word that is to be memorized or learned. Mnemonics work because learning research indicates that the more richly we encode information, […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Interesting article over at cnet news about the future of games called Future games to harness player’s collective wisdom. The article describes a talk given by alternate-reality game developer Jane McGonigal at the Game Developer’s Conference in the serious games summit portion. She stated that she believed computer games can teach collective intelligence. She defines […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →On Wednesday, April 25, 2007, I will be presenting with Greg Walsh and Steve Sugar on the topic The Power of Play: Effective Training Through Games and Simulations The neat thing is that Greg and I are the techie guys and Steve Sugar is a game guy who has been doing learning games for years […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Will Thalheimer just announced that he is transitioning from independent consultant to once again working within an organization. He is turning Work-Learning Research into a hobby. I would just like to say that any organization that is smart enough to hire Will is going to have a great employee on their hands. I know Will […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →This has been around the blogosphere but, if for some strange reason, you haven’t check out this great list of Web 2.0 exercises, you should. It is called 23 Learning 2.0 Things. It makes my punny list of 4 items in my post This Weekend Go High Tech look a little anemic. Thanks to Brent […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →So there has been much talk about DIY learning in the blogosphere lately. I have even entered another salvo over at TrainingDay Blog so you can check it out. It is called Design of Learning. However, the entire DIY got me thinking and exploring and coincidently, I am reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Tonight’s supplement to my daily newspaper is a paper within a paper called All the Rage, For Teens! By Teens! About Teens! Typical teen stuff, what to wear to the prom, choosing a college and so forth. However, one article caught my eye “MySpace, IM–why so addictive?” We spend a lot of time in the […]
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